The murders remain unsolved, and in the pop historicizing tradition of Oliver Stone, the show attempts to add rich detail to a high-profile case two decades earlier, while also undertakingР’В РІР‚вЂњ or at least performingР’В РІР‚вЂњ suggestive forensic work of its own. West Coast' rivalry that dominated rap music at the time.

In the mid-'90s, conspiracy theories abounded as to the connection between the two deaths, though many put the murders down to a gang-related spill-over from the 'East Coast v. Courtesy: USA Network / NBC UniversalР”Р„ carefully-made procedural drama, the show is typical of our current era of 'prestige' (high-quality, important, serious) television and seeks to tell the story of the killings of Biggie Smalls and his chief musical rival Tupac Shakur, who was fatally shot the year before, in September of 1996, in Las Vegas. All of this finds resonance in the USA Network's Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and the Notorious B.I.G., which began airing in the US last week.Р”В¬hristopher 'Biggie' Wallace played by Wavyy Jonez in Unsolved:Р’В The Murders of Tupac and the Notorious B.I.G., 2018РІР‚вЂњongoing. At the same time, fatalistic themes run throughout the rapper's back catalogue too, particularly a macabre sense of the finitude of a life lived in the streets of Brooklyn's Clinton Hill and of the hedonistic or anesthetizing pleasures one might enjoy in the meantime. It was widely remarked at the time that the recordР’В РІР‚вЂњ released posthumouslyР’В РІР‚вЂњ was eerily titled, presaging, as it did, the unsolved shooting of Biggie in plain sight in Los Angeles. That spring day in 1997 should have been one of celebration for Combs and Wallace, since it would see the release of his exceptional double-album, Life After Death. The 9 March marks the 21st anniversary of the death of Christopher Wallace, also known as The Notorious B.I.G., or Biggie Smalls, the standard bearer for Sean 'Diddy' Combs's New York-based Bad Boy label.

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