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In the 2000 book The Murder of Biggie Smalls, investigative journalist and author Cathy Scott suggested that Wallace and Shakur's murders might have been the result of the East Coast–West Coast feud and motivated by financial gain for the record companies, because the rappers were worth more dead than alive. [26]
Wardell Fouse (July 22, 1960 – July 24, 2003), also known by his aliases Darnell Bolton and Poochie, was an American Bloods gang member who was implicated in the murder of the Notorious B.I.G. Fouse belonged to the California-based gang known as the Mob Piru Bloods.
Christopher George Latore Wallace (May 21, 1972 – March 9, 1997), known by the stage names the Notorious B.I.G., Biggie Smalls, [1] and Biggie, [2] was an American rapper. Rooted in the New York rap scene and gangsta rap traditions, he is widely considered one of the greatest rappers of all time.
Russell Wayne Poole (November 29, 1956 – August 19, 2015) was a Los Angeles Police Department detective who investigated the murder of the Notorious B.I.G. (Christopher Wallace), a rapper also known as Biggie Smalls.
This is a list of notable rappers and hip hop musicians murdered since 1987.. Two studies in the mid-2010s concluded that murder was the cause of half of hip hop musician deaths.
In 2023 a man carrying two ghost guns killed five people and wounded two in Philadelphia, leading the city government to file a lawsuit against Polymer80 and JSD Supply, two gun component vendors.
Zawahri, who was later shot and killed by police, had assembled an AR-15-style weapon after failing a background check at a gun dealer. A gunman who killed his wife and four others in Northern California in 2017 built his own weapon to skirt a court order prohibiting him from owning firearms.
The Murder of Biggie Smalls, a biography covering the life and death of the late rapper, was released by St. Martin's Press in October 2000. The Murder of Biggie Smalls was reprinted in the UK by Plexus Publishing, a music genre publisher. [14] It has also been made into a talking book, read by narrator Bob Moore. [15]