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Notorious B.I.G. Murdered

Gangsta rapper Notorious B.I.G.--born Christopher Wallace--was killed in a drive-by shooting in Los Angeles at about 12:40 this morning. Wallace, 24, was leaving a party at the Petersen Automotive Museum celebrating the Friday night's Soul Train Music Awards when a car pulled alongside his Chevrolet Suburban and multiple shots were fired, police said. He was driven in his vehicle to a nearby hospital but died there about a half hour later.

The death of Wallace, who also performed as Biggie Smalls, recalled the still-unresolved murder of Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas last September.

While there was no immediate evidence to connect the killings, Wallace and Shakur were enemies, the epitome of the East Coast-West Coast tension in the rap world.

Shakur accused Wallace of involvement in a robbery outside a recording studio in New York in 1994 in which Shakur was shot. Last fall, Wallace said he would attend--then canceled out on--a "day of atonement" in New York, billed as both a memorial to Shakur and a chance for the eastern and western sets to heal their differences.

Other rappers have dismissed the bicoastal rivarly as more hype than reality. In any event, police have never made any statements implicating Wallace in Shakur's murder.

Wallace was born in Brooklyn and said he'd been a crack dealer. He had a few arrests in recent years on some minor charges related to drug use and fights.

The 1995 Billboard Awards honored Notorious B.I.G. as rapper of the year in 1995. His debut album, Ready to Die sold over a million copies and he reportedly was about to release a new album, Life and Death/To Death Do Us Part.

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