christopher wallace
Notorious B.I.G.’s Life After Death to Be Reissued for 25th Anniversary
The Notorious B.I.G. (a.k.a. Christopher Wallace) would have celebrated his 50th birthday this May. Now, in honor of him turning the big 5-0, Wallace’s estate, his former label Bad Boy, Rhino, and Atlantic Records will collaborate on a year-long campaign in celebration of this life. The Sky’s The Limit: A Year Celebrating The Legacy of the Notorious B.I.G. campaign will see the reissue of Life After Death for its 25th anniversary on March 25. This album debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard Top 200 upon its release and remains a classic. A Super Deluxe 25th anniversary boxed set of Life After Death will be released on June 10. The set will include 8-LPs and a booklet featuring photos from the album cover shoot. The set also includes the Hypnotize 12-inch, Mo Money Mo Problems 12-inch, Sky’s Th...
Biggie’s Son CJ Wallace Releases His First Music as He Grows Social Impact Company
Over a Zoom video interview, Christopher “C.J.” Wallace, Jr. holds up his dad’s jersey that almost eclipses Wallace and the entire computer screen. “It’s a 5XXL,” Wallace tells Billboard. On the back of the jersey, ‘POPPA” is stitched in bright yellow letters against the hunter green fabric. The young entrepreneur was only five months old when his father, The Notorious B.I.G., was killed. Now 23, Wallace has finally done something he says he was “very scared of for the longest time”: releasing his own music, inspired by his dad’s. “I just avoided it because you don’t wanna mess up anything great,” says Wallace. Born in New York City and raised in Los Angeles, Wallace has been in the process of building his own legacy with Think BIG — a social impact company that he co-founded with bu...
