As he navigated his young, uncertain life, Biggie started making music. It didn’t matter where you went, it was all in your face.”Īt the age of 17, Biggie was arrested for selling crack, and spent nine months in a North Carolina prison before making bail. “Everything happened on the strip I grew up in. As a result, by his early teens, Biggie had joined the life that was all around him. Biggie, or “The Notorious B.I.G,” as he’d later become known, experienced a rough childhood-at an early age, he was surrounded by drug addicts and dealers. Biggie was killed in Los Angeles on March 9, 1997.Įarly Years: American hip-hop star Biggie Smalls was born as Christopher George Latore Wallace on in Brooklyn, New York, in the neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant. His 1994 debut album, Ready to Die, was a smash hit, and his long-running feud with fellow rapper, Tupac Shakur, helped to shape his career. He started experimenting with music as a teenager and, not long after, befriended Sean “Puffy” Combs. Audio Stream via Soundcloud.īio (1972–1997): Synopsis: Born as Christopher Wallace on May 21, 1972, in Brooklyn, New York, Biggie Smalls, also known as Notorious B.I.G., became a drug dealer at a young age. Published on March 2015: House Shoes B.I.G.Re:Imagined Produced by Various Producers, Released by Street Corner Music. House Shoes B.I.G.Re:Imagined Biggie Tribute Prod Various Artists His debut long-player “Let It Go”, and its pre-cursor “The Time EP”, are now available worldwide on Tres Records. Most recently, he produced tracks on Danny Brown’s ‘XXX’ and Quelle’s ‘Shotgun and Sleek Rifle’ albums. Two self-produced 10” limited vinyl issues have also been released on Do-Over Records, backed by Flying Lotus, and All-City Records, respectively, and are already rare pieces. tour.Īs a producer, ‘Shoes has worked with the late and revered J Dilla and Big Proof, Black Milk, Danny Brown, Guilty Simpson, Roc Marciano, Chino XL, Invincible, Finale, MED, Nottz, Alchemist, Big Tone, Oh No, Elzhi, El Da Sensai (Artifacts), Black Spade, Now On (Mayer Hawthorne), and Moe Dirdee, among others. House Shoes also performed as tour DJ on Mayer Hawthorne & The County’s Spring 2010 16-city headlining U.S. Four-time winner of the “Best Hip Hop DJ” in Detroit, he has used his platform to expose some of the best and brightest talent his city has had to offer.Īs a DJ, ‘Shoes has toured extensively throughout the U.S., Europe, and Australia with artists Guilty Simpson, Illa J, Exile, Aloe Blacc, Percee P, Phat Kat, Slum Village and Elzhi, to name a few, as well as on his own, gaining the respect of acts far outside the scope of Detroit hip-hop. #BIGGIE SMALLS READY TO DIE ZIP DOWNLOAD VK FULL#Andrews Hall, Detroit MI, from 1994-2004 has had personal influence over a full generation of well respected emcees, producers, and then-future DJs. House Shoes, a resident DJ at the hip-hop staple St. Just ask anyone coming out of Detroit to confirm this. Enjoy.”Ībout The DJ: Detroit Hip-Hop’s Ambassador to the World, Michael “House Shoes” Buchanan has been an integral part of the long burgeoning Motown resurgence. Very satisfied with what the homies cooked up. The project is called “House Shoes B.I.G.Re:Imagined” “I got a lightbulb. DJ House Shoes has definitely been putting in his work, just take a peek at his Soundcloud Page to see what I’m talking about. Nottz Raw from Virgina definitely puts it down, starting off the project with a crazy dope interpretation of “Kick In The Door”. The vocal history you created such as the House Shoes B.I.G.Re:Imagined will always be with us.ĭetroit’s DJ House Shoes brings us a collaboration of 14 Biggie Smalls remixes from, I believe 12 including House Shoes, dope hip-hop producers. We will miss the creative lyrics that delivered clever images through his music. As his flame burned bright, it was taken away from us far too soon. – holding the MIC, rapping on a New York street corner is iconic to hip-hop history. The image of young Biggie Smalls aka Notorious B.I.G.
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