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was named MC of the Year at the 1995 Billboard Music Awards. After these successes, the album worked on earlier went through its final touches and was released in 1994, titled "Ready to Die." The record was certified platinum quickly, and the Notorious B.I.G. Blige song and a track on the Who's the Man? (1991) soundtrack. Biggie was first heard on a remix of a Mary J. Puffy and Biggie worked on the artist's first album, and the Notorious B.I.G. Impressed, Puffy went to sign Biggie to his new label, Bad Boy Records. A young impresario and sometime producer by the name of Sean Combs heard Biggie's early tapes. Biggie was a Black man who was overweight, extremely dark skinned, and had a crook in his eye, yet he was a charmer. Not extremely attractive, Wallace named himself Biggie, for his weight. The tapes were then passed around and played at local radio station in New York. Once released, Biggie borrowed a friend's four-track tape recorder and laid down some hip-hop tracks in a basement. However, a trip to North Carolina for a routine drug exchange ended being the soon-to-be MC a nine-month stay behind bars. His career choices involved certain risks. Hustlin' one's way was a common life for a young Black man trying to make a living in the ghetto.
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Dropping out of high school at the age of seventeen, Biggie became a crack dealer, which he proclaimed was his only source of income. He was raised in the poor Brooklyn neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant. He was the son of Jamaican parents, Voletta Wallace, a pre-school teacher, and Selwyn George Latore, a welder and small-time politician. Biggie Smalls, was born on in Brooklyn, New York.