Notorious B.I.G., aka Christopher Wallace, walks down Fulton Street in his home borough of Brooklyn after signing autographs at Birdel's Records. A dominant voice in hip hop, Biggie was killed early in the morning on March 9, 1997, in Los Angeles, in what is widely believed to be a retaliation for Tupac Shakur's murder.
(Newsday file photo / September 14, 1994)