Notorious Essays

The overall goal of the film Notorious directed by George Tillman Jr was to display a young rappers dream to being a famous with popularity and money. The main character is Christopher Wallace, later known as Biggie Smalls or the Notorious B.I.G, and the film is based on a true story about Biggie’s achievements and failures through the duration of his rap career and life growing up in the ghetto. The film itself displays a different walk of life that are within the ghettos of Clinton Hill, New York

Nas and The Notorious B.I.G. (Biggie) both were and still are to this day, huge music influences. Although Biggie is usually accredited with starting the era of East Coast hip hop with his album Ready to Die Nas came out with Illmatic four months before. To this day there is controversy over who started this trend and some speculators go as far as saying Biggie copied Nas on his style and cover artwork. Both albums share many things in common, the style of music, audience, but the one similarity

Alopecia is when the immune system mistakenly attacks the hair follicles on your head, causing hair loss. You can have complete hair loss of the whole body, hair loss on the head, or small bald patches on the head. Most people don't even know about it. To prove my point the spell check on my laptop doesn't even think it's a word. But it is, and honestly it's one of the worst things I would ever wish upon someone. You constantly feel alone, but you don't have to be. These are the things I would tell

In Mark Twain’s story, “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County,” a competition is held between a stranger who makes his way into town and Jim Smiley was a gambler and was always prepared to place a wager; he did not care which side he gambled on and he consistently came out the champion. In accordance to the narrator, he was fortuitous, “uncommon lucky.” One afternoon a foreigner arrived in town and Jim, as usual, wanted to put up a wager against him; Jim bet that his frog, Dan’l, could

Notorious RBG by Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik, is about the Supreme Court Justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg. This book takes one into the story of RGB, in a creative way. Written with both history and pop culture in mind, this novel is both a factual story of the famous RBG, while shown in a fun a creative way to relate to current pop culture. History can be interpreted in many different ways, and an author has the power to dictate how a story is seen. Different generations, look at history in different

In “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”, the dialect establishes the tone between the narrator and Wheeler by having Wheeler tell a series of stories about a betting man named Smiley. The narrator makes a point to emphasize that Wheeler is a just average person and that he has little interest in interviewing him about a likely mad up story about a man named Smiley. This results in the tone of the story being nonchalant. For example, “…it would remind him of his infamous Jim Smiley, and

Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious is a film rich with themes of deception and suspicion, between the three main character Alicia, Devlin and Alex. Two key techniques in film are known as cross-cutting and point of view editing. Each of these techniques are used throughout the film as part of the continuity system to advance the plot of the film and establish each character's personality. Both types of editing help to enhance the themes of deception between Alicia and Alex, as well as the suspicion that

-(“The Notorious B.I.G.”) Biggie was married to Faith Evans. -(“The Notorious B.I.G.”) Danny does not like Biggie Smalls. In opinion, Biggie was big influence on the rap/hip hop period. -(“The Notorious B.I.G.”) Big had a rough life, as he quotes,’’sardines for dinner” he is implying that he was so poor that his family had to eat sardines for dinner and then big got into the rap and hip hop game and then rocketed up and out of his poor life. According to my sources, Biggie

Ready to Die. This was the title of the Notorious Big’s debut album. Christopher Wallace better known as Biggie Smalls was born on May 21, 1972, in the rough streets of Brooklyn, New York. At the age of 12, Wallace began selling drugs on Fulton Avenue in his neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant, meanwhile, he also began to encounter his passion for rap music. His life as a drug dealer led to his arrest in 1989 for possession of an unregistered firearm, months later he decided to quit school and pursue

His name is Christopher Wallace, but most of you know him as one of his multiple stage names such as: Notorious B.I.G, Biggie Smalls, and Big Papa. At a young age he got into drug dealing which was easy considering his surroundings in Brooklin. With those circumstances it was kinda hard to not get involved with bad stuff. After getting arrested for selling

Biggie Smalls The notorious B.I.G has one of the most known legacies in rap history. In his eventful but short life he put out two albums and got many awards for his work. Biggie smalls had experienced a relatively rough childhood surrounded by drugs. But through all that he had found success. Biggies real name was Christopher Wallace. After biggie blew up he married a singer named Faith Evans. Next, BIggies mother was Voletta Wallace she was a teacher and his father left when he was young

Hop music star Christopher Wallace, better known as Biggie Smalls or The Notorious B.I.G., was part of an East Coast-West Coast rapper rivalry that included Tupac Shakur and Sean “P. Diddy” Combs. A year after Shakur was murdered, Notorious B.I.G. was preparing to release his second album when he was gunned down at the age of 24 as he left a party in Los Angeles. The album soared to #1 on the charts posthumously. Notorious B.I.G. is ranked as one of the top rappers of all time. Christopher Wallace

Christopher Latore Wallace, later known as Biggie Smalls or the Notorious B.I.G., was born to Voletta Wallace and Selwyn Latore on May 21, 1972. His mother and father were immigrants from Jamaica. His dad lived in London for the most part as Biggie grew up in New York and was not a part of Biggie’s life as a child. “Selwyn was already married and ambiguous about his newborn son” (Peterson 418). Voletta was keen on education. She sent Biggie to a private school, but he later insisted on going to

“I f****d your b**** you fat motherf****r” “You claim to be a playa but I f****d your wife!” This lyric originates from arguably the greatest ‘diss’ track of all time. “Hit Em’ Up” by 2Pac was released in June of 1996 as a reaction to the dispute he had with iconic East Coast rapper B.I.G.G.I.E. (Biggie Smalls). Hip-Hop’s infamous West Coast vs. East Coast rivalry was centered around this duo through media attention, fan support, and its level of production. When people take a look back in history

Wallace? He was assassinated and killed in Los Angeles March 9 ,1997. Christopher Wallace assassination was unjustified, people think Notorious killed Tupac Shakur, Notorious and Tupac Shakur we’re actually friends back before all of the east and west coast rivalry. You can say about Notorious tried to kill Tupac Shakur when they were both at top. Notorious and tupac were actually friends and you would always see them hanging out tougher. SHown in the documentary of Biggie and Tupac, when B.I

The Unsolved Murders of Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls Nearly two people die every second. Murders happen every day. There are suicides, unintentional deaths, and homicides. Unsolved homicides leave investigators and the world in discovery to the motive. Two murders occurring around the same time between hip hop artists leaves the world puzzled as to how and why this occurred. The unsolved murders of the two young hip hop legends, Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls, is truly a mystery of the universe

“ Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G. may have had one of the biggest rivalries in hip-hop, but their relationship actually started off as a friendship.”(Google) One of B.I.G. songs brought them together. Tupac was on set of Poetic Justice playing B.I.G. song on repeat. Tupac ended meeting up with B.I.G. after Tupac LA home. “ The “clicked” immediately and B.I.G. “always thought it was a gemini thing,” given that his birthday was on May 21, 1972, and Tupacs was on June 16, 1971”(Popsuger). Tupac

Biggie smalls, in full Christopher George letore Wallace, Also known as Notorious B.I.G. Born on 21 May 1972, Brooklyn, New York, USA. Killed on 9 March 1997, Los Angeles, California, USA. He was a rapper and a hip hop singer, his album life after death sold about 700,000 copies. Who biggie and what are the disputes between east coast side and west coast side in the USA. Life changing, the American hip-hop star with Jamaican origin biggie smalls was experiencing a rough childhood at a young

most “notorious” one. The mystery of the Notorious B.I.G. can be summed up into 2 theories. One being that he was killed in retaliation for Tupac Shakur’s murder, the other being that the officers from LAPD killed Smalls and covered it up. Even though Smalls was loved by millions of people he still had a dark and dangerous life. “Christopher G. Wallace was born in 1973, in Brooklyn, New York and died of multiple gunshot wounds in Los Angeles on March 9th, 1997 at the age of 24.” (Notorious B.I.G

screaming like a teenage girl, he was so excited. Source Frank was privy to Tupac’s many relationships. He claims the rapper was “hooking up” with hundreds of women during the time he was guarding him. The list is said to include Faith Evans (Notorious BIG’s wife), O.J. Simpson’s daughter, and even Madonna. Source The night Tupac was shot, “Big Frank” was guarding him at a Mike Tyson fight. Orlando Anderson, a member of the rival gang, the Crips, was also there. Anderson was said to have “beef”