Biggie Smalls is killed in a drive-by shooting in 1997. Biggie who was born Christopher Wallace in Bedford-Stuyvesant 24 years ago and who recorded as the Notorious B.I.G. Was sitting in his. Many of Biggie's associates believed the rapper was killed on orders from Knight, as retaliation for the September 1996 killing of Death Row's star rapper Tupac Shakur in Las Vegas. The Notorious B.I.G. Was fatally shot in Los Angeles on March 9, 1997 while leaving a club, but 20 years later his killer has still not been found. With hit songs like 'Kick in the Door,' 'Big.

• Who Killed Biggie

Christopher Wallace, aka Biggie Smalls or the Notorious B.I.G., died 20 years ago Thursday in what the New York Post recently 'rap's greatest mystery.' Wallace was fatally shot in Los Angeles on March 9, 1997 while leaving a club — just months after Tupac Shakur died in a drive-by in Las Vegas — and the case has never been completely solved. “It still hurts that nothing has been done,' Wallace's 64-year-old mother told the Post this week ahead of the anniversary of his murder.

'His death is not something I want to celebrate. But I am grateful to everyone who remembers him.' Read: Biggie Smalls, a rapper from Brooklyn, helped raise the status of East Coast hip hop as a teenager in the 90s. With hit songs like 'Kick in the Door,' 'Big Poppa' and '10 Crack Commandments,' Biggie quickly became an icon for his deep voice, unique perspective and lyrical flow. On the night of his death, he was leaving a music industry party just after midnight when a car pulled up alongside him on the street. The driver, a black man wearing a suit, looked at Biggie, pulled out a gun and fired, hitting the young rapper four times. He was rushed to the hospital but was ultimately pronounced dead at 1:15 a.m.

He was 24, weighing 395 pounds and standing just over 6 feet tall. Documents from Wallace's autopsy and the FBI investigation into his death were only released about five years ago.

The FBI files showed the agency was trying to connect Tupac's murder with Biggie's, that Wallace was shot with European ammunition and that corrupt officers with the Los Angeles Police Department may have been involved,. Read: Of course, given the lack of confirmed developments in the case, conspiracy theories have cropped up over the past two decades. Some people believe the rapper is living in hiding in, that Sean 'Puff Daddy' Combs killed Biggie for profit or that Eminem and Dr. Dre were involved in the murder,.

Who Killed Biggie

Regardless, the Notorious B.I.G. Was severely missed Thursday, with multiple trending topics on social media honoring his life and legacy. 'Big influenced a generation. This whole generation took pieces and bits,' rapper AZ in 2010. 'Everybody took a piece out of Big that's on the charts right now.

Depending upon your age, you may just know him as the guy whose portrait was on the wall on Luke Cage. Or maybe as the Blood Mary parody ghost on that one episode of South Park back in 2006. But, trust us - he's a legend.

He was also very famously murdered in a drive-by shooting on March 9th, 1997. You know those instances when a singer passes away and their music tops the charts? That happened to Notorious B.I.G.' S album, which was unfortunately titled Life After Death. He was actually the first to posthumously top the charts like that. He was lovers with Lil' Kim during the '90s and of course had a tremendous impact upon her career as well as influence upon her music.

So everybody paid attention when Lil' Kim sat down with Tyler Henry. But no, this isn't an episode of some super weird crime drama, so Tyler Henry didn't reveal who killed Notorious B.I.G. He did have a lot to say about impressions that he got about Lil' Kim. 'One of the impressions that did come through was a memory right before his passing, of him standing outside of a residence and he acknowledges this memory of looking out, taking a deep breath and the feeling is like his soul was preparing to go even though he consciously didn't know what was about to fully happen.' Sometimes people realize that their life could be snuffed out at any moment. But yes, he talks about the murder: 'It is interesting to note, he is having me bring up two people, two people, two people and showing me two people conspiring.' 'There's a feeling of almost like people talking or hearing that someone might not have wanted him to live.

He's showing me a symbol of death threat and then not taking death threat seriously, which would indicate if we don't know who did it, many people would.' That seems to be particularly meaningful to Lil' Kim, who spoke about that event: 'He was definitely at a party before it happened.

I will say this, it was a little after 2Pac passed away. I remember he called us all in the room and he had a meeting with us. He was like, we have to stay tight. It's almost like he felt something but no one else picked up on it. I took it very seriously.' That's scary. Tyler Henry spoke to ET about how rather than, say, banging posts and pans in Tyler's head about how he was murdered.

'It's always interesting to see what they prioritize in bringing through. You would think sometimes people would come through and bring up their death as the first thing and sometimes those are the people who don't.' And Tyler was able to communicate to Lil' Kim that she was Wallace's soul mate.

'I truly think loving you was the greatest accomplishmenthis soul truly feels it was ever able to do.' That's powerful. Lil' Kim has had some hard times in her life, before she met Notorious B.I.G. (she spent some of her adolescence living on the streets) and after, when she suffered from domestic abuse. If you wonder why, it's partly do to having to get nose jobs after being punched in the face. But her life seems much better now, and not too long ago. We hope that this sit-down on Hollywood Medium provided her with whatever closure she needed.