Notorious

David Denby

Christopher Wallace, who became known as the rapper Biggie Smalls, or the Notorious B.I.G., was born in 1972 and was brought up in Bedford-Stuyvesant by his mother, Voletta Wallace, a middle-class woman from Jamaica. When Chris dropped out of school, at the age of seventeen, and became a crack dealer, it was not for lack of love or support; Voletta, a teacher who eventually earned a master's degree in education, adored him. In the next few years, Wallace was in and out of jail, and he carried a gun at times. [...]

di David Denby, articolo completo (5664 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New Yorker 26 gennaio 2009