The following evening, March 8, he and the Bad Boy Records entourage attended an afterparty hosted by Vibe magazine and Qwest Records at the Petersen Automotive Museum in West Los Angeles. On March 7, Wallace presented an award to Toni Braxton at the 1997 Soul Train Music Awards and was booed by some of the audience. Life After Death was scheduled for release on March 25, 1997. Wallace cited that the reasons for the decision were not only the ongoing East Coast–West Coast hip hop feud and the murder of Tupac Shakur six months prior, but that security was simply a necessity for high-profile celebrity figures in general. On March 5, he gave a radio interview with The Dog House on San Francisco's KYLD, in which he stated that he had hired security because he feared for his safety. Ĭhristopher Wallace traveled to Los Angeles, California, in February 1997 to promote his upcoming second studio album, Life After Death, and to film a music video for its lead single, " Hypnotize". Retired LAPD Officer Greg Kading alleged that Marion "Suge" Knight, the head of Death Row Records, orchestrated the murder in revenge for the September 1996 killing of Tupac Shakur in a similar drive-by homicide by gunshot. In 2006, Wallace's mother, Voletta Wallace his widow, Faith Evans and his children T'yanna Jackson and Christopher Jordan "CJ" Wallace, filed a $400 million second wrongful death lawsuit against the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) alleging that corrupt officers were responsible for Wallace's death. The hip hop artist was shot four times in a drive-by shooting in Los Angeles, California. The murder of Christopher Wallace, an American rapper better known by his stage names " the Notorious B.I.G." and "Biggie Smalls", occurred in the early hours of Sunday, March 9, 1997. Harry Billups (suspected shooter by Russell Poole)
Suge Knight (allegedly orchestrated killing).
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