Bystanders radiated praise, thanks, joy, and love-as Big once chronicled. There was a procession after the service, a pilgrimage through Brooklyn. (“It felt like everyone wanted to give up,” Combs says.) Yet, he recalls, a balm did eventually arrive. Solemn undersells the pain surrounding Biggie’s funeral. “I never knew that you could feel so sad, or feel so hurt, or feel so empty,” Sean Combs says in the opening moments of the new Netflix documentary Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell. It was a sequel to his 1994 debut, Ready to Die. His final album, which dropped 16 days later, had already been titled Life After Death. Four bullets entered his body but one alone struck the fatal blow, ravaging his heart, lungs, and liver. The rapper known as the Notorious B.I.G., Biggie Smalls, or quite simply, Big, was 24 when a vehicle ambushed and shot through the passenger side of the dark-green GMC Suburban he was riding in, on March 9, 1997.
The fact that Christopher Wallace often toyed with death did not make his demise any easier to understand.
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