Although there have been lots of explicit anime releases over the decades long before the 2000s, they had largely been relegated to the back corners and hidden rumors of video shops and more. But when anime got a lot more widespread in North America and other territories,

Throughout its history, hip-hop has been known as a contact sport, with the origins of the culture built in part off the spirit of competition. The genre was initially used as a vehicle for the street gangs and neighborhood crews of New York City to ...

The Notorious B.I.G., a.k.a. Biggie Smalls, is one of the most respected and beloved hip-hop icons of all time. The Brooklyn-bred rapper rose to prominence in the 1990s and had a style unlike any other artist who had come before him. But his official stage ...

There's really not much else you can say about the Notorious B.I.G. or his debut album, 'Ready to Die,' that hasn't been detailed or written at this point. Being that his magnum opus of a debut came out 23 years ago on Sept. 13, 1994, and that he died not ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. American rapper Notorious B.I.G., aka Biggie Smalls, aka Chris Wallace (1972 - 1997), rolls a cigar outside his mother's ...

The Notorious B.I.G. grew up in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Clinton Hill, on the edge of the once-dangerous neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant. Biggie grew up during the height of the crack epidemic in the 1980s when it was decimating Black communities in ...

The Notorious B.I.G, also known as Biggie Smalls, and Faith Evans were one of hip-hops hottest power couples. They were married in 1994 rather quickly, only knowing each other for eight days before tying the knot. Hip-hop's hottest couple, at that time ...

On May 2, The Notorious B.I.G. will become the seventh hip-hop act to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. And just the fourth to make it in as a first-ballot hall of famer. For hip-hop heads of the 1990s, it comes as no surprise. As the saying ...

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The Notorious B.I.G. dropped his classic record "Juicy" back in August of 1994. Sampled from old school R&B and funk artist Mtume's "Juicy Fruit," the track appears on Biggie's debut album, Ready to Die. Diddy, CEO of Bad Boy Records, the label B.I.G. was ...

The rapper previously took aim at the R&B group on his 1994 single "Just Playing (Dreams)" Ilana Kaplan is a Staff Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023. Her work has previously appeared in The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Vanity ...

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