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May 21 has been a holiday of sorts throughout Brooklyn and all of the rap community since the passing of The Notorious B.I.G., but now it’s official.
To honor the late great, Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams has declared Biggie Smalls birthday “Christopher ‘The Notorious B.I.G.’ Wallace Day” and presented his daughter T’yanna Wallace and Lil Cease with a proclamation, DNAInfo reports.
“I know my dad really loved Brooklyn,” T’yanna says. “He loved where he was from. Brooklyn, Bed-Stuy, ‘Do or Die,’ that’s what he always said.”
Today would have been Biggie’s 44th birthday and the celebration will continue tonight at the Barclays Center in his hometown as part of the Bad Boy Family Reunion Tour. The festivities began last night when Diddy brought out the whole family, from Ma$e and Mary J. Blige all the way to the heir to the Brooklyn throne Jay-Z himself.
Biggie was murdered on March 9, 1997, weeks before his sophomore album Life After Death was released. His murder, like many in the hip hop community, remains unsolved to this day. He was only 24 years old.
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