Notorious BIG Essay

Introduction: I have not choosen a genre, but a particular artist. I have choosen the American, EASTCOAST rapper Notorious B.I.G. He's artist name is Notorious B.I.G and B.I.G stand for, Business Instead of Games, but its also referes

to the fact that he is a extraordinary big guy.

Argumentation why: I listen to a lot of diffrent kind of music, but rap just catched my attention. I have B I H about how life was, and how hard life was in the hood. I write was because he died in a driveby shooting in the year 1997, in California in the age of 24. He lived his live in the hood, and wrote about it in his lyrics Short introduction to the genre: Rapping first gained popularity in the U.S. in the 1970s as a kind of street art, especially among A A B “ugar-hill Gang released their ‘ D History about the Christopher Wallace: Christopher George Latore Wallace was born May 21, 1972 and died March 9, 1997, he's stage name was The Notorious B.I.G, Biggie or Biggie smalls. He was an American rapper, he was consistently ranked as one of the greatest rappers ever and one of the most influential rappers of all time. Christopher lived on the eastcoast. He was raised in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. He started as a good student but after he saw the other boys selling drugs, and making money, he desided to start him self doing so. A little later he dropped out of school. In 1994 he released his first album Ready to die, he became a central figure in the EASTCOAST hip hop scene and increased New York's visibility in the genre at a time when WESTCOAST hip hop was dominant in the mainstream. His lyrics: I I