Voletta Wallace Interview

Rosenberg speaks with Biggie's mother. Check it out!

The legacy of Christopher “Biggie Smalls” Wallace lives on as the late lyricist's life is immortalized on the big screen this month in "Notorious." As one of hip-hop’s lyrical masterminds, the Brooklyn native and only child of Voletta Wallace told tales of his hard-knock street life. But to his mom he was simply her baby boy who always made her smile.

Coping with her son's 1997 murder wasn't easy but Ms. Wallace found solace in collaborating on B.I.G.'s life story as one of the film's coproducers.Major magazines and editors spoke to Wallace about witnessing another side of her son for the first time, having Angela Bassett fill her shoes, and why she wants to have a one-on-one with Lil’ Kim.