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. 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.
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