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Biggie |
| Voletta Wallace Remembers Her
Son, Christopher Wallace, AKA Notorious B. I. G. |
Voletta Wallace, Foreword by Tremell McKenzie
ISBN: 0743470206
Format: Hardcover, 191pp
Pub. Date: October 2005
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group
BBP Sales Rank: 44,714
List Price: $29.95 |
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This is a memoir of Ms. Wallace's star child and recounts her own story of
immigration. As a young woman of modest means in Jamaica, she dreamed the
American Dream. Like so many West Indians, she built a life from scratch,
settling in Brooklyn, New York's Bed-Stuyvesant neighborhood.
She worked as a teacher of young children and raised her son without the
support of his father. She lived a quiet and conservative life as a practicing
Jehovah's Witness who tried hard to keep her bright precocious son on the
straight and narrow.
Christopher got his knack for writing verse from his mother. She had no idea
though that "all that noise" he was making with his friends in the bedroom of
their small apartment would one day become platinum selling records. She also
had no idea that her industrious son was becoming a leader in his circle and a
small-time drug dealer.
The book charts her son's climb to stardom and his death, the result of a
drive-by shooting that occurred on March 9, 1997 in Los Angeles, CA. He was
leaving a post-Soul Train Music Awards party hosted by Vibe magazine. The
murder remains unsolved. Ms. Wallace and Faith Evans, who was married to the
hip hop star filed a wrongful death and federal civil rights lawsuit against
the city of Los Angeles, the LAPD, Police Chief Bernard C. Parks and former
Chiefts Willie Williams and Bayan Lewis.
Wallace is survived by two children.
She talks about the issues surrounding her son's murder and the unsavory people
and practices of the music and entertainment industry, but more than that she
speaks as an ordinary woman and mother dedicated to raising her son and
teaching the sons and daughters of parents faced with the same trials and
tribulations as she.
Her aim is to "give back" the resources that have come to her through a
terrible and tragic loss as a way to inspire young people to do good.
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