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9” scale roto figure of the late influential rapper, Notorious B.I.G.. Comes dressed in a blue sweater and carpenter pants and comes complete with removable hat, microphone, cigar and gold chain accessories. This is the first Notorious B.I.G. figure ever released and features Mezco's famous articulation.
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Born Christopher George Letore Wallace in 1972 and raised in Brooklyn during its crack cocaine heyday, this man of many names (he was also known as Biggie Smalls and took on the name Big Poppa in his songs and raps, as well as Frank White, became best known as The Notorious B.I.G. (Business Instead of Game) after trading in a career in drug-dealing for one in rapping, where he'd shown his amazing talents during competitions in his neighborhood in the late 1980s.
Best known for his 1994 album "Ready to Die" and his follow-up double-disc "Life After Death" (which is the biggest-selling hip-hop album of all time, having sold well over 10 million copies as of early 2006), he was a free-style rapper without equal and helped restore the popularity of the East Coast hip-hop scene (which had long been centered on the West Coast) and which, ultimately, may have proved to be his undoing (as he was murdered in March of 1997 after attending the Soul Train Music Awards ceremony in Los Angeles). While his murder remains officially "unsolved" (although the case was re-opened in July, 2006, as the result of a civil suit filed by the rapper's mother and other relatives), his continued influence on the urban music scene is, without a doubt, his legacy.
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