Voletta Wallace attends the Lincoln Center orchestral tribute to Notorious B.I.G at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts on June 10, 2022 in New York City. Voletta Wallace, the mother of the ...

Biggie Smalls’s mother, a preschool teacher and devout Jehovah’s Witness, didn’t listen to her son’s music until his death. After his killing in 1997, Voletta Wallace’s life’s work ...

Biggie Smalls, born Christopher Wallace, became one of the best-selling and most respected hip-hop artists of all time, despite his short career. The Brooklyn native, who released only two studio ...

The rap community continues to mourn the death of Brooklyn rapper Biggie Smalls’ mother, Voletta Wallace, after her February death. But before she passed, she made sure her son’s legendary ...