Notorious B.i.g.

by Hal Marcovitz

Presents a biography of the rap artist from his youth in a rough section of Brooklyn, through his successful career, to his participation in a violent rap feud that ended in his murder.

64 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 2006

About the author

Hal Marcovitz has been making his living as a writer for more than a quarter-century. He has worked as a reporter and columnist for several daily newspapers, and can now be found reporting for The Morning Call of Allentown, PA, where he covers government and politics in the Bucks County Courthouse in suburban Philadelphia.

Hal is also the author of more than 50 nonfiction books for young readers. He has written biographies of Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa, civil rights leader Al Sharpton, farm labor leader Cesar Chavez, and film director Ron Howard. He has also written about the lives of several presidents, including Bill Clinton, John Adams, James Monroe, Theodore Roosevelt, and John F. Kennedy.

Hal lives in Chalfont, Pennsylvania, with his wife, Gail, and daughters Ashley and Michelle.

Reviews

[Corbin · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book about Christopher Wallace, or who you know him by "Notorious B.I.G". Christopher was born on May 21st, 1972, in the Clinton Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. Where he lived there was a bunch of thugs, and or Crime and Drug problems, so he was kinda put into all that stuff. Christopher Wallace, as a kid had always wanted to be a Hip-Hop artist.

Soon after he grew up and became older, he was signed for rap, and then later became A rap artist with Snoop Dogg, Tupac Shakur, and Suge Knight the main person of Death Row Records. When Chris became to be in the rapping game he changed and started being a "gangster" and started doing other stuff. He had a lot of good lables and A LOT of Hip-Hop fans, love Notorious B.I.G, he was one of the greatest of all time. A couple months later him and his best friend, Tupac, Got in a fight and had a fued with gangs, and Tupac died after a shooting, he thought Biggie was the person for it and he wasnt. Since then, 6 months after Tupac died, Biggie got murdered in his car at a stop light after he was leaving the club with his "homeboys", He died March 9th, 1997.

This book was well written and I really like it, I recommend this book to people that like Hip-Hop and or Notorious B.I.G, If you like him like I do this book is very recommended and you would really like it. This book is a definite 5 stars. Very recommended!!

[Bryan · Rating 5 out of 5]

It was a good book i like it a lot

[Patrick · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book breaks paradigms for how to teach the history of Hip Hop.