While Biggie and Puffy were at a recording session at Quad Recording Studios in Manhattan, Tupac went there to record with another rapper for his third studio album, "Me Against The World" at the same time, but in the lobby, Tupac was held at gunpoint and robbed of $40,000 worth of jewelry. However, their friendship turned into the most violent era of hip-hop music on November 30, 1994. Tupac supported Biggie and was often giving him advice. He soon met a rapper from the west coast named Tupac Shakur, and the two became friends. He had several run-ins with the law, on charges that ranged from beatings, to drugs and to weapons, while all claimed that Biggie was a gentle person. After the quick success of the album, Biggie went back to get his friends, some who didn't even rhyme. was named MC of the Year at the 1995 Billboard Music Awards. After these successes, the album worked on earlier went through its final touches and was released in 1994, titled "Ready to Die." The record was certified platinum quickly, and the Notorious B.I.G. Blige song and a track on the Who's the Man? (1991) soundtrack. Biggie was first heard on a remix of a Mary J. Puffy and Biggie worked on the artist's first album, and the Notorious B.I.G. Impressed, Puffy went to sign Biggie to his new label, Bad Boy Records. A young impresario and sometime producer by the name of Sean Combs heard Biggie's early tapes. Biggie was a Black man who was overweight, extremely dark skinned, and had a crook in his eye, yet he was a charmer. Not extremely attractive, Wallace named himself Biggie, for his weight. The tapes were then passed around and played at local radio station in New York. Once released, Biggie borrowed a friend's four-track tape recorder and laid down some hip-hop tracks in a basement. However, a trip to North Carolina for a routine drug exchange ended being the soon-to-be MC a nine-month stay behind bars. His career choices involved certain risks. Hustlin' one's way was a common life for a young Black man trying to make a living in the ghetto.
Dropping out of high school at the age of seventeen, Biggie became a crack dealer, which he proclaimed was his only source of income. He was raised in the poor Brooklyn neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant. He was the son of Jamaican parents, Voletta Wallace, a pre-school teacher, and Selwyn George Latore, a welder and small-time politician. Biggie Smalls, was born on in Brooklyn, New York. His mother, a Grammy winner and platinum-selling artist three times over, remains a potent influence and musical force in her own right.Christopher Wallace, a.k.a. CJ's late father, the rapper Biggie Smalls, may have died from a gunshot wound in March 1997, five months after his son was born, but his legacy as one of the genre's greats has only grown in the ensuing 20 years. This feels a given, considering his lineage.
In real life, he's a communications student at Santa Monica College and besides the gym going, he and his brother, with their friend Lotus Ley, are working on music together, which should see the light of day this year. He might be humble but that doesn't mean CJ Wallace doesn't have drive. "I'm not going to lie I would have been upset if I didn't get the part." "It was overwhelming but I was quick to it. "I was really scared because it was like man, I had to audition to be Dad." But then other impulses kicked in. No pressure there, then? "At the time it was definitely a big deal," CJ admits. Biggie's mother, asked her grandson to audition. In his film debut, the Biggie biopic Notorious, he played his dad as a child. When he was still in sixth grade, CJ got asked to fill some pretty big shoes. Vest and trainers Givenchy by Riccardo Tisci. It's the same thing with football we're always challenging each other."Ĭoat Off-White C/O Virgil Abloh.
"Me and my brother are hitting the gym three or four times a week just to make sure we are challenging ourselves. "I've definitely been trying to stay healthy," CJ states, when talk turns to how good he's looking on social media. A keen American football player, he and his younger brother Joshua have been hitting the gym since filming wrapped, and it shows. Nor was 20-year-old CJ going to be stuck with the "Fat Albert" moniker once filming ended on the project. "He's everything my mom pretty much taught me not to be," CJ laughs.
But Albert is not at all like the actor who plays him. Albert - or Fat Albert to his friends - is the kind of kid who sells what he refers to as "Pussy Mixtapes" on the sidewalks of San Fran's Bay Area. In CJ's star making turn in the film Kicks, he plays a cocksure teenager who brags about the girls that he wishes he could get and his legendary rapping style. All clothing and hat Givenchy by Riccardo Tisci.