Ever wonder whatever happened to the little boy featured on the cover of The Notorious B.I.G.‘s iconic 1994 debut album — Ready to Die? We can hardly believe its been 17 years since the release of the album that brought us hip-hop classics like “Unbelievable,” “Warning,” and the Method Man-assisted “The What.” Well, all these years later that little boy with the big smile and the full afro has come forward as an 18-year-old New York City high school senior.
“Every time people find out they ask me if I got a lot of money out of it,” says Keithroy Yearwood, who was handpicked from by a modeling agency for the gig and made $150 for the two-hour photoshoot.
Wax figures of slain rap legends Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G. will be posed together for three months in an exhibit opening this week at Madame Tussauds Wax Museum in Washington DC. Read the rest of this entry »
Today marks the 13th anniversary of the passing of one of the best to ever do it – the Notorious B.I.G. aka Biggie Smalls. Where do you think the state of hip-hop would be of the rap legend were still with us?
Lil Kim has publicly slammed The Notorious B.I.G.’s widow, singer Faith Evans, and the rap legend’s mother, Voletta Wallace, insisting the pair helped producers of the new Biggie biopic, Notorious, portray her in a negative light.
However, the female MC has now admitted that she recently watched the film to ensure she hadn’t been totally defamed, and what do ya know, her disdain for the project has remained unchanged! Read the rest of this entry »
Four men were stabbed at a New York nightclub during an after-party for the premiere of Notorious– the new biopic about the Notorious B.I.G, who was killed in Los Angeles in 1997. Read the rest of this entry »
Femcee Charli Baltimore is opening up about many of the private details surrounding her relationship with the Notorious B.I.G. and her feelings on B.I.G.’s “other woman” Lil Kim in a new interview with Yo! Raps Magazine.
I remember being at the funeral and Lil Kim fell out on the floor and I was just like “Yo! What the fuck!” Like, Faith was up there singing and she was very composed and very respectful. And here goes Lil Kim on the floor and she starts rolling around on the floor! I was like “What the fuck is going on?” I was in the back, in the cut. I had some black shades on. There was 100,000 bitches there and I don’t know what bitches was… Yo! I remember this girl Lil Kim walked up and damn near jumped in the casket!
In an interview with Essence.com on Thursday, hip-hop mom Voletta Wallace said she would like to have a “sit-down” with her late son’s former mistress, rapper Lil Kim. Read the rest of this entry »
