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On Feb. 21, the Hip-Hop world was saddened to learn that the mother of the legendary Notorious B.I.G., Voletta Wallace, had passed away at the age of 78 years old.
Her funeral service was held Wednesday (March 12), at Frank E. Campbell Funeral Chapel in New York City almost 30 years after it held the service to lay her son, Christopher “Notorious B.I.G.” Wallace, to rest. Many of his Hip-Hop peers showed up to bid Ms. Wallace goodbye.
According to Rolling Stone, the guest list to attend the funeral was strict and limited, but quite a few of your favorite music stars from yesteryear made the service. The likes of Ma$e, Lil’ Cease, Lil’ Kim and Faith Evans were in attendance to pay their respects to the woman who birthed the greatest rapper of Hip-Hop’s golden era.
Other notable figures who attended Ms. Wallace’s funeral included Jay-Z’s mother, Gloria Carter, Diddy’s son, Christian Combs, and of course her grandchildren, T’yanna and Christopher Wallace.
It’s pretty cool to see a mini Junior Mafia reunion going all these decades later. Maybe they’ll work on some new music at some point. Just sayin’.
A public viewing was held for Voletta Wallace Tuesday (March 11), and fans were invited to pay their respects. “This will be an opportunity for all of us, together, to acknowledge and pay tribute to the matriarch who built her son’s memory into the legacy that stands today, allowing his iconic music and his legendary style to touch and inspire generations upon generations of music, hip hop and popular culture fans across the globe,” Voletta Wallace’s Instagram post read.
Rest In Power, Queen.
We hope you and your son spend eternity making up for the lost time you were robbed of here on Earth.
P.S. Tell Biggie the rap game is “meh” these days.
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Voletta Wallace, the mother of the late Christopher “The Notorious B.I.G.” Wallace, has died. According to still-developing reports, Voletta Wallace passed from natural causes.
TMZ was the first to report the news of Voletta Wallace’s passing, noting that the retired schoolteacher passed away in Stroudsburg, Penn. The outlet adds that Wallace was in hospice care in the Pennsylvania town according to Monroe County Coroner Thomas Yanac.
Wallace, a native of Jamaica, moved to Brooklyn N.Y. where she and George Latore welcomed their son, Christopher, who would later become known as rapper Biggie Smalls before taking on The Notorious B.I.G. stage name for legal purposes. Wallace raised her son as a single mom while working in education, and as Biggie’s star rose, she was a major fixture in his life.
After the tragic loss of her son, Wallace continued to uphold the legacy of The Notorious B.I.G. and oversaw his estate, including making certain that his daughter, T’yanna Wallace, and son, C.J. Wallace were taken care of. She also released the book Biggie: Voletta Wallace Remembers Her Son, Christopher Wallace, aka Notorious B.I.G in 2005.
Via her Instagram page, several images of her and her son adorn the pages along with a consistent celebration of Biggie’s achievements in the industry and how his name still lives on in the minds of many. Online, fans are showing their respect and mourning the loss.
Rest in peace to Voletta Wallace.
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2024 has not been kind to Diddy as his dirty laundry has been aired for all to see. While most of his peers and fans wouldn’t even want to be in the same room as him these days, Biggie’s mother, Voletta Wallace, wouldn’t mind getting close to him one more time if for no other reason than to put hands on him.
In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, the woman who blessed us with arguably the greatest rapper of all time, expressed disgust and anger at the news of Diddy’s countless allegations of abuse, violence and intimidation of others and said all those things made her “sick to my stomach.” While like many, Ms. Wallace didn’t want to believe all the wild allegations thrown at Diddy by various people in recent months. The video of him beating on Cassie in a hotel hallway showed her a side of Sean Combs she had never seen.
“I’m praying for Cassie. I’m praying for his mother. I don’t want to believe the things that I’ve heard, but I’ve seen [the hotel video]. I pray that he apologizes to her,” Ms. Wallace told Rolling Stone.
Diddy did somewhat offer a half-assed apology to Cassie, but that didn’t fly over too well with fans and Cassie herself.
Still, Ms. Wallace does say she wouldn’t mind seeing Diddy again in person as she feels the need to teach him a thing old-school style. Truth be told, we kind of hope she does.
“I hope that I see Sean one day and the only thing I want to do is slap the daylights out of him,” she continued. “And you can quote me on that. Because I liked him. I didn’t want to believe all the awful things, but I’m so ashamed and so embarrassed.”
We’re sure lots of people are ashamed and embarrassed to have ties to Diddy now that his heinous behavior has come to light.
The interview comes on the heels of reports that a grand jury has been empaneled in connection to the investigation of Diddy, which could lead to the “Bad Boy For Life” rapper getting indicted and possibly sentenced to prison for quite a long time. So if Ms. Wallace actually does want to slap some sense into her son’s former boss, she’ll have to move fast before the feds catch up to him. Just sayin’.
What do y’all think of Voletta Wallace’s feelings towards Diddy? Let us know in the comments section below.
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