A black man dressed in a suit and bow tie unloaded the magazine of a 9mm pistol into Biggie’s SUV, hitting him four times. He was pronounced dead at a local hospital later that night. Investigating the case six years later, Carson asked the LAPD for files on their murder investigation. He claims the department responded by hiding and removing key documents. Despite the alleged obstruction, the FBI officer discovered that two of the cops closely tied to the Biggie case were found to be crooked.
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The 9 March marks the 21st anniversary of the death of Christopher Wallace, also known as The Notorious B.I.G., or Biggie Smalls, the standard bearer for Sean 'Diddy' Combs's New York-based Bad Boy label. That spring day in 1997 should have been one of celebration for Combs and Wallace, since it would see the release of his exceptional double-album, Life After Death.
It was widely remarked at the time that the record – released posthumously – was eerily titled, presaging, as it did, the unsolved shooting of Biggie in plain sight in Los Angeles. At the same time, fatalistic themes run throughout the rapper's back catalogue too, particularly a macabre sense of the finitude of a life lived in the streets of Brooklyn's Clinton Hill and of the hedonistic or anesthetizing pleasures one might enjoy in the meantime. All of this finds resonance in the USA Network's Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and the Notorious B.I.G., which began airing in the US last week. Christopher 'Biggie' Wallace played by Wavyy Jonez in Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and the Notorious B.I.G., 2018–ongoing. Courtesy: USA Network / NBC Universal A carefully-made procedural drama, the show is typical of our current era of 'prestige' (high-quality, important, serious) television and seeks to tell the story of the killings of Biggie Smalls and his chief musical rival Tupac Shakur, who was fatally shot the year before, in September of 1996, in Las Vegas.