Notorious B.I.G. Murder Investigation - America's Most Wanted (1997)

by one woman who tomorrow will spend her first Mother's day without her son Once Upon a Time the Notorious BIG was neither big nor notorious he was simply Christopher Wallace he was a warm and loving son the biggest force in his life hovers at just over 5T and 100b his mother and tonight the very private Veta Wallace talk for the first time since her son's murder nobody knows what I look like their concept of me is a 300 lb or more than 300 lb 5 fo 7 6t cigar smoking bear drinking Street Corner socializing mama in fact this petite mama is an elementary school teacher who raised her only child in this Brownstone in Bedford Styers in Brooklyn his bedroom was back there this was our living room even in these pre Versace days he showed a flare for styling in Showmanship even when he was just helping direct traffic for passing school children while he was crossing the street with the kids he would stop all traffic and started see Stop in the Name of Love and all the traffic would stop and so the kids would go by he attended Catholic schools he was making good grades very good grades aspirations becom dentist they said if you maintain his average you would get a scholarship but instead of hitting the books his mother says at age 17 he started hitting the streets he dropped out of school and started to get into trouble but those closest to him say he was never as bad as the images he created in his rap songs when he became notorious I'd like to welcome to the stage the notorious once he hit the stage he began spinning fantastic stories of life on the street of a gun toing designer clothes wearing drug selling player told in the first person it seems that in the world of so-called gangster rap a rap sheet is a resume to be exaggerated then said Mom just an image I have to sell records sell records he did this one up there is the gold and the Platinum sales for um to die that first CD ready to die made him a millionaire and suddenly the man who didn't have enough to buy a car could now roll in this specially fitted Suburban complete with five television sets and he moved from the hood to the BBS of TAC New Jersey where his lifestyle was a curious mix of good father and Good Fellas along the way he befriended another successful rapper Tupac Shakur Tupac was his best friend yeah he was his real real buddy until 1994 when Tupac was held up and shot in New York Tupac believed big was behind the shooting Tupac shot back with his blistering hit him up and now there was no question that their friendship was over the lyrics include a death wish for big he also boasts of sleeping with Big's wife recording artist Faith Evans who spoke to us exclusively in a candid interview what do you want to say about your relationship or lack thereof with Tupac Shakur well I don't really want to say there's nothing to say there was never a relationship between Tupac and me none of it is true as far as me being involved with him none of it is true so you're saying you were never I was never involved with Tupac never the rap rivalry became more Sinister this past September when Tupac was shot to death by an unknown gunman Big's longtime friend and rapper Little Caesar says big was upset by Tupac's murder he was hurt and he was scared cuz he knew that that was going to cause a lot more drama going 6 months later big was in California Tupac's tur March 8th the head of his record label Shan Puffy Combs invited big to a party the music from his upcoming CD was featured I heard they were playing hypnotized over and over over again over and over again they played it four times back to back I whis I said how you feeling right now he said I'm feeling my best I can't wait till March 25th he was two weeks away from the release of the biggest CD of his life titled life after death when it was time to leave the party they formed a caravan with puffy in the lead big and Caesar riding in a Suburban in the middle and a car with bodyguards just behind them in this exclusive interview Little Caesar talks about the events he witnessed why why wasn't there any security inside the van I want know maybe because like big felt like he needed his friends around him all like so you were sitting just behind big I had my window like halfway down so I was looking out the window you just see a car pull up on big door like pull up on big door and nowhere just a single dud in the car and he just fired shots inside the door when we saw it we just a got down in the car everybody been down just hit the shots just ringing in the car but no window busted or nothing nobody scream big a scream he didn't say ouch oh he got a gun nothing he was 24 big wrote myew for a friend who was killed but the song from his new CD would turn out to be a reum for the rapper and thousands of New Yorkers paid their last respects [Music] so far Los Angeles police detectives have made two trips to New York in search of the killer we're conducting interviews now we're seeking out more of the witnesses that we can find but uh sometimes that's not an easy task we're making progress it's moving along um but I'd like to give a lot of thanks to Mrs Wallace she's been very helpful and located and have a window available to us and are you going to have to pack all this up I don't know what I'm going to do yet I really really don't know it's kind of hard right now we haven't decided yet but this house it has a lot of sad memories because he just looking at it and um he's not even here to enjoy that's as Ash is there his ashes mhm one of her grandchildren is too young to realize what happened the other is old enough to ask questions and to cry for her daddy Veta Wallace is crying too for Christopher and for justice I want to know why could anyone be so cold blooded so venomously cruel as to pull a gun on someone take a life take away a son take away a father a husband a friend I have to see him I have to you want to I want to I have to I have to Valena is praying that tonight someone will recognize this face Witnesses have given the killer police say he's in his 20s if you have any information about the killing of Christopher Wallace also known as Biggie Smalls and the Notorious BIG please call 1 1800 Crime TV

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Keywords: The Notorious B.I.G. (Rapper), Tupac Shakur (Rapper), Junior Mafia, 2pac, ALL, The Notorious B.I.G. (Musical Artist), Biggie Smalls, Faith Evans (Musical Artist)

Id: 2ayO8T9lAIY

Length: 8min 26sec (506 seconds)

Published: Sat Sep 29 2012