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Early in his career, he helped launch the careers of Mary J Blige and Christopher Wallace - aka Biggie Smalls, or the Notorious B.I.G.

"And that's because he can finally get back to focusing on the issues that matter — like, did we fake the moon landing? What really happened in Roswell? And where are Biggie and Tupac?"

Wallace’s son, who was also known as Biggie, was gunned down in 1997 following a music industry party in the Mid-Wilshire district, just two weeks before his seminal album “Life After Death” was released.

Biggie, who released his debut album “Ready to Die” with Bad Boy Records in 1994, was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2020, one of his many achievements that his mother highlighted on her social media accounts that she largely dedicated to him.

In an early 1997 profile in The Times, Biggie, describing his own reformation, said: “What I’m doing now is right. I’m taking care of my mother, my kids and my peers. It’s legal, and I’m just using a talent that I have to express myself and get paid, so it’s only right that I follow that righteous road.”