Photos: The Notorious B.I.G. aka Biggie Smalls through the years

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Photos: The Notorious B.I.G. through the years

The Notorious B.I.G., Biggie, or Biggie Smalls, was a revered rapper that was gunned down on March 9, 1997.

BROOKLYN, : A man displays a T-shirt tribute to rapper Biggie Smalls aka The Notorious B.I.G 18 March as friends and fans lined the funeral procession route through his old neighborhood in Brooklyn. "Biggie" 24, who's real name was Christopher Wallace, died 09 March in a drive-by shooting in Los Angeles. AFP PHOTO Jon LEVY (Photo credit should read JON LEVY/AFP/Getty Images)

NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 1994: Rapper The Notorious BIG attends an event in November 1994 in New York, New York. (Photo by Al Pereira/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

Notorious B.I.G., whose real name is Christopher Wallace, left, appears alongside producer Sean 'Puffy' Combs, center, and an unidentified artist of Bad Boy Entertainment Saturday evening, March 8, 1997, in Los Angeles, at a party at the Petersen Automotive Museum held in celebration of Friday's 11th annual Soul Train Music Awards. Wallace, 24, was gunned down as he left the party early Sunday, police said, and was later pronounced dead at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. (AP Photo/Venus Bernardo-Prudhomme)

NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 7: American rapper the Notorious B.I.G. (1972 - 1997) aka Christopher Wallace, aka Biggie Smalls at the 12th Annual MTV Awards on September 7, 1995 in New York City. (Photo by Catherine McGann/Getty Images)

UNITED STATES - JANUARY 18: Rapper Notorious B.I.G., aka Biggie Smalls, aka Chris Wallace rolls a cigar outside his mother's house in Brooklyn. (Photo by Clarence Davis/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images)

UNITED STATES - JANUARY 18: Rapper Notorious B.I.G., aka Biggie Smalls, aka Chris Wallace with Junior Mafia outside his mother's house in Brooklyn. (Photo by Clarence Davis/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images)

CHICAGO - APRIL 1995: Late rapper Notorious B.I.G., performs at the International Amphitheater in Chicago, Illinois in APRIL 1995. (Photo By Raymond Boyd/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

CHICAGO - SEPTEMBER 1994: Rappers Saafir, Craig Mack, The D.O.C. and late rapper Notorious B.I.G., pose for photos backstage after their performances at the Riviera Theater in Chicago, Illinois in SEPTEMBER 1994. (Photo By Raymond Boyd/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

CHICAGO - SEPTEMBER 1994: Late rapper Notorious B.I.G., performs at the Riviera Theater in Chicago, Illinois in SEPTEMBER 1994. (Photo By Raymond Boyd/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

UNITED STATES - MARCH 19: Daily News front page dated March 19, 1997 , Headline: The B.I.G. SLEEP, Thousands line Brooklyn streets to say goodbye to rapper Biggie Smalls , funeral of Notorious B.I.G., Biggie Smalls, Christopher Wallace. (Photo by NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images)

Christopher Wallace a.k.a. Biggie Smalls a.k.a. The Notorious B.I.G.

Notorious B.I.G., who won rap artist and rap single of the year, clutches his awards at the podium during the annual Billboard Music Awards in New York, Wednesday evening, Dec. 6, 1995. The awards were upstaged by the absence of Michael Jackson, who had been scheduled to receive an award but collapsed hours earlier and was taken to a hospital. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

39727 (BC-BPI-NOTORIOUSBIG) Bad Boy Entertainment rapper Notorious B.I.G. was killed in a drive-by shooting early Sunday morning was killed in a drive-by shooting while leaving a party thrown by two music industry magazines, at the Peterson Automotive Museum in Los Angeles. Police have no suspects. The slaying of rapper the Notorious B.I.G. was "possibly a hit" ordered out of New York or Los Angeles, L.A. police said Monday. "We're not overlooking any possibilities of a payback or gang-related type shooting, or we're not overlooking the fact that this was possibly a hit, a direct target, coming out of possibly New York. It could come out of L.A. It could come out of Atlanta," Lt. Ross Moen said. The Notorious B.I.G., whose real name was Christopher Wallace, was leaving a party early Sunday when someone drove by and shot through the passenger side door of the GMC Suburban where he was sitting. The driver drove to the hospital, where the 24-year-old was pronounced dead. Moen said Wallace died of multiple 9 mm gunshot wounds to the upper body. BPI DIGITAL PHOTO ©ARISTA RECORDS ORG XMIT: BPI14

Spin announces slain rapper The Notorious B.I.G. as 1997 Artist of the Year. (PR NewsFoto)

FILE: The Notorious B.I.G. bares his soul to VIBE in the days before his death. (Business Wire photo)

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BROOKLYN, : A man displays a T-shirt tribute to rapper Biggie Smalls aka The Notorious B.I.G 18 March as friends and fans lined the funeral procession route through his old neighborhood in Brooklyn. "Biggie" 24, who's real name was Christopher Wallace, died 09 March in a drive-by shooting in Los Angeles. AFP PHOTO Jon LEVY (Photo credit should read JON LEVY/AFP/Getty Images)

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