Biggie Smalls’ effect on hip-hop huge

 
BY GEORGE LANG
Published: January 16, 2009

In 1993, when Amy Andrieux was 16, the Long Island teenager managed to sneak out with two friends to go to the Manhattan club known as The Tunnel, where the Notorious B.I.G. was performing.

At that point, The Source, the leading hip-hop magazine, already was onto Christopher Wallace , aka the Notorious B.I.G., aka "Biggie Smalls” — a nickname he took from the Bill Cosby / Sidney Poitier fi...


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