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The top spot on this week’s Billboard album chart belongs to Chrisette Michele. Never heard of her? Neither have many other people because Michele has scored the lowest first-week sales total in Nielsen SoundScan’s 18-year history.
Her second album, Epiphany, only sold 83,000 copies in its initial week of sales. Only two other albums have debuted [...]

The screenwriter who brought the story of Biggie Smalls to the big screen with “Notorious” is at it again.

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Police say four men were stabbed at a New York City nightclub advertising an after-party for the film premiere of “Notorious” about rapper Biggie Smalls.
Police said Saturday a 21-year-old victim stabbed numerous times was in critical condition at Brookdale Hospital. Three others were stable.
The Djumbala club is in the Canarsie section of Brooklyn. Police did [...]

Faith Evans, already excited about her son’s role in ‘Notorious’, is ready to step into her own sitcom.
“I developed a synopsis for a sitcom which is based loosely on my life,” Evans told VH1.
“The show alludes to the fact that I was married and lost my husband.”
While Evans has appeared on several primetime series including [...]

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Lil Kim was a big part of the Notorious B.I.G.’s life, but she’s not happy about the way she’s portrayed in the new biopic about the late rapper.
The Notorious B.I.G. was Lil Kim’s mentor and was also romantically linked to the rapper. Their sometimes rocky relationship is depicted in the new movie “Notorious,” but Lil [...]

When novice thespian Jamal Woolard was picked out of a sea of unknowns to depict one of rap’s most iconic figures — The Notorious B.I.G. — he knew few people had faith in his ability to pull off such a critical role in his first attempt at acting.
“‘He’s a rapper; He ain’t never acted; What [...]

A prison inmate who implicated a former Los Angeles Police Department officer in the murder of Notorious B.I.G. says he lied about the officer’s involvement, a move that provides another twist in a complex and unsolved killing.

Waymond Anderson, a former R&B artist now serving a life sentence for murder in a separate case, said in an [...]

Rapper Offers No Apologies for Success and Calls Out His Critics and the Press

Since the days of Tupac versus the Notorious B.I.G., or Jay-Z versus Nas, disputes between rappers have been a sure fire way to generate lots of headlines.
The media attention didn’t cease when industry bad boy 50 Cent challenged the middle-class rap superstar [...]