![]() ![]() The formation of these groups consisted of rappers, beatboxers, and dancers, who’d come together and perform just for the sport of it. By the mid-’90s, this form of competitive rhyming or battle rap became commonplace. He would pass the time by freestyle rapping and battling his friends on the streets. He too spent his days on the corner, hooded in menace, exchanging handshakes full of cash for handshakes full of heroin. Christopher Wallace was not exempt from this trend. Gang culture arose as misguided youth saw a chance to capitalize on the quick turn over and profitability of drug dealing. ![]() By the late 1980s heroin addiction had become an epidemic in impoverished African American communities. He had no real dreams of becoming a professional rapper at the time, for him, it was a long shot at best. A reference to both his stature (6ft 3) and a character in the 1975 movie Let’s Do it Again. Christopher half-heartedly released a demo in 1991 under the name Biggie Smalls.
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