Biggie’s Mother Still Hopeful Son’s Killer Will Be Brought To Book

Biggie’s Mother Still Hopeful Son’s Killer Will Be Brought To Book! Yesterday (March 9) marked the anniversary of the late Notorious B.I.G.’s death and fans worldwide were not left behind in terms of paying tribute to the fallen Rap icon through social media. It was on March 9, in 1997 in the wee hours of the morning after a Vibe after party for the Soul Train Awards when  Biggie, only 24 years old, whose real name is Christopher Wallace, was shot in a drive-by shooting in Los Angeles.

The perpetrators behind the heinous crime are yet to be named or apprehended. However, Biggie’s mother, Voletta Wallace, shared with Entertainment Weekly that she still has hope that one day justice will be served for her son.

“As long as I have life there’s hope,” Ms. Wallace said as she promoted the new Netflix documentary Biggie: I Have a Story to Tell. “I’ll never give up. And I hope when I’m not in this world anymore, my friends and family will carry on the fight. There is always hope.” She added, “After his passing, I heard a lot of positive and negative things that were being said about him. As a mother, I only wanted to hear positive things because I’m biased. I decided then I wanted to know more about his music. I read something in a magazine about him where the writer said something like, ‘what do people expect when you give a bum from the ghetto a million dollars?’ I was very hurt by that.”

“I never raised my son to be a bum or a drug dealer,” she added. “So, I listened to his music and I asked a lot of questions. I cried like a baby while listening because what I heard was an intelligent human being.” Damion “D-Roc” Butler, Biggie’s good friend, and Wayne Barrow, the executor of the rapper’s estate, reportedly partnered to release the documentary and explained why they believe the project is vital.

“This might be the last March 9 we celebrate moving forward, focusing instead on May 21, his birthday,” said Barrow. “We’re going to forget March 9, but not in our hearts. By celebrating his birthday, we can focus on his life.” Butler was in the vehicle with Biggie when the rapper was shot. “I feel cheated. I feel like we went through all of that for nothing,” Butler said.

“I don’t feel like this so much anymore but I did for a long time,” he continued. “Now I can see that it wasn’t for nothing, he sacrificed a lot. That’s why we’re here today almost twenty-five years later because he’s still relevant. He’s still the hardest working rapper in the game today.”