The Notorious Biography

Musicians The musicians The Notorious B. The Notorious B. In the city of the mother of the performer Voletta Wallace, a migrant from Yamaika, was a school teacher; Father Selvin George Lator is a welder and a politician later. As he grew up, the musician came across various difficult circumstances: cancer, revealed by his mother, his girlfriend’s early pregnancy, poverty, forced him to engage in drugs to the sale of drugs.

Entering the criminal world entailed several arrests of Wallace on charges of storing weapons and psychotropic substances. These events inspired Wallace to compose rap and became a biographical basis for his stage image. Writing texts, as the rapper claimed, was a way of survival for him. The album “Ready to die”, with which notorious B. Critics wrote that Wallace managed to recreate the sound landscape of the world around him with incredible clear Lang.

Success attracted the attention of the press and allowed him to speak with concerts throughout the country. The content of the 1st album concerned Wallace’s criminal activity, including parts such as receiving, packaging and reselling drugs.

These plots were accompanied by thoughts about the growth of his popularity, which could put his life in jeopardy. The end -to -end theme of “Ready to Die” was death: in the final tracks, the lyrical hero of Wallace commits suicide. Despite the tragic outcome of the story of his protagonist, in his work the rapper sought to give hope and motivation to continue to live contrary to difficulties.

The appearance of Notorious B. Wallace's brutal stories turned out to be an alternative to stories about the idle life in luxury, which composed in the West of the United States Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Ice Cube, etc. Triumph of the rappers of the east coast, and notorious B. Career take -off predetermined the turn in Wallace's work. The album "Life after Death", which has published in the city of their implementation, provides the world of gangsters, the image of which is largely inspired by works of mass culture.

The criminal world becomes tangible to listeners also because Wallace is involved in it through an aggravated conflict between the rappers of two coasts, which often passed into armed skirmishes. On the recording of the 2nd album, the musician's voice became lower due to overweight according to various sources, from to kg. Notorious B. The changes also affected the style of his clothes: the sloppy T -shirts of oversize and unnecessary shoes gave way to custom -made costumes -three, felt hats and vintage sunglasses.

The new everyday attributes of the rapper were expensive cigars, alcohol and real estate, which made it a target for criminal gangs. Climbing Notorious B. Conflict Notorious B. Relations of Wallace and Shakura were friendly up to G. Conflict after 2pac received five gunshot wounds near the recording studio, where Notorious B. after recovery, the rapper was suspected of organizing the attempt on him Leibble Bad Boy Records and Wallace in particular.

Rejecting Wallace’s assurances in non -involvement in what happened, Shakur began a public campaign against him: he regularly arranged attacks in the media and recorded insulting tracks. Shakur also entered into bickering with other BAD Boy Records participants. Wallace occasionally answered attacks, but hoped to restore friendship with Shakur after he spoke about leaving the Death Row Records label.

Shakur was shot dead by unknown persons in Las Vegas, and in the city of the police could not disclose both crimes. Witnesses of the conflict between Shakur and Wallace claim that attacks on them could be initiated by people from the west coast. The killer of Wallace was not found and brought to justice, but the investigation helped identify the largest criminal network with the participation of police Los Angeles.

More than 70 officers were charged with robbing banks, drug trafficking and murders. Some of them could be involved in the murder of Wallace. The albums “Ready to Die” and “Life after Death” were repeatedly recognized as platinum, and were also assigned to the best-selling and outstanding records in the history of hip-hop. For many years, the Cingls of Wallace headed the Billboard Hot charts The peculiarity of the record was in its symbolic component: complex metaphors and descriptions were replaced by the names of brands, which endowed the tracks of emotional and semantic depth.

The next generation of rappers made this technique one of the basic, also adopting Wallace to build a story. The personality of Wallace was also not rethought after death, as happened with Shakur. Published on November 17, the latest update on November 17, contact the editors.