19 year-old T’yanna Wallace, daughter of the late great Notorious B.I.G took a trip back to to the Bed-Stuy area of Brooklyn, NY with Global Grind to revisit some of the memories of her deceased father. With her future entrepreneurial plans, college education, and a life-long legacy of her beloved father, T’yanna talks about how she has big plans to make a name of her own. Much love to T’yanna and the Wallace Family for keeping Biggie’s memory alive for all of us. Peep the video above.

After 15 years, no arrests, and no leads, the autopsy report of the late Christopher Wallace, whom we grew to love as the Notorious B.I.G was released on Friday by the Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office. Though its release may bring the case a step closer to trial, The family of the former Bad Boy rapper was not pleased with the report’s rapid release without warning. For more details, click the jump.

This isn’t exactly a “rare” picture of the late Christopher Wallace. The shot has actually made its rounds on the Internet, just not in the manner some of the more popular pics of the King Of New York has. B.I.G. breaking down weed before rolling it in a blunt is about as quintessential Frank White as it comes in terms of visuals.

For as charming as he was when speaking to the fairer sex, he was, for lack of a better term, as hood and as ignorant as he wanted to be. That, combined with his rare ability to piece words together not many before or after have been able to master, is the reason he remains as revered now as he was during his heyday of the mid 1990′s. Wiz wasn’t the first rapper to smoke while he was driving.

Tiyanna and C.J. lost a father. Faith lost a lover. And Miss Wallace lost her only son. For that, it’s important to remember that while Biggie is one of the most celebrated musicians of all time, there are people out there who lost someone much, much more important than a rapper.

Still, Big’s greatest gift to the world was his music and those who took his life 15 years ago today silenced arguably the most effortless flow the rap world will ever know.

XXL pays tribute to the legendary Notorious B.I.G. in their upcoming edition in February. March 9th marks the 15th year anniversary of the Notorious B.I.G.’s death. XXL takes us through an in-depth look into his life and death. Since Biggie was the “most swagger-jacked rapper of all time”, they included a list of the 100 best Biggie bites, a look of what Biggie might have looked like at 40 years of age, and more.
The issue hits newsstands February 7th.

The Gunna is prepping for the release of his new theme-cenetered mixtape, L.I.F.E. (Ladies In Free Everywhere). Obviously, judging by the title Chris is gearing this one towards the opposite sex and the first leak from the project is The Notorious B.I.G. featured remix to “None Of Dem.” Before you get your hopes up, this is not an unreleased verse from the late, great icon. But look at this from a glass half full perspective, Big never laid a wack verse, so that’s a win. The verse from Biggie, however, is from his classic track “Me & My Bitch.”

L.I.F.E. hits a website near you (i.e. this one) in 15 days, otherwise known as May 24th.

Seventeen years ago, The Notorious B.I.G. sent Hip Hop into a frenzy (if that is even the right word) with the release of his debut album Ready To Die. The project boasted smash singles, a strong sense of lyricism, but it ultimately told the story of a young kid from Brooklyn who had just as much paranoia as he did talent. Still, one of the more endearing traits of the LP was the cover. With such an aggressive title, the cover was merely a chubby cheeked baby sitting down in diapoers. Maybe it was a play on a double meaning, but when most think of RTD, the cover often comes to mind.

What may not know is the the toddler on the cover is not a young Biggie. Instead, it is 18-year-old Keithroy Yearwood. And given the fact B.I.G.’s album went on to sell over three million copies, you’d think his bank account would be (or at least would have been) be padded. It’s not. He or his family are not broke, but they only received $150 from the modeling gig back in 1994. Financial gain is the last thing Yearwood is after however.

“I just want people to know that’s me,” Yearwood said. “The truth is finally coming out.”

Fans, who observed the 14th anniversary of the rapper’s death on March 9, have wanted to know the truth for years. Many speculated it was an early photo of B.I.G. (his real name was Christopher Wallace) or one of his kids. Others thought it might be one of Diddy’s kids.

No one was sure – not even the graphic designer of the album, Cey Adams. “That ended up being one of the most-asked questions of all-time,” said Adams, who thought the baby was the son of a hairstylist that worked at the record label.

Butch Belair, who took the famous photo, also thought the baby was related to someone close to the project. “It was a friend of someone’s friends’ kid who had this cool Afro,” the photographer said. “The Afro was as big as he was.”

When RapRadar.com, a popular hip hop website, asked Combs about it last year, he said, “That was a baby we just found ….We did a little casting for somebody that looked like Big.”

Diddy’s record company couldn’t confirm that Yearwood is the cover star saying, “files from then would be hard to find.” They did confirm the baby came from an agency.

Yearwood’s mom Delcenia Burns, 43, took out stacks of baby pictures of her son at their Sussex County, N.J., home to show he’s one and the same – and dug up papers from the child modeling agency Chicky’s Kids to support her son’s claim. The agency, now closed, sent her and her then-infant camera ham to the casting, she told The News.

Burns said it was tough to get her son gigs because of his full head of hair. Some potential jobs even wanted to pose him as a girl, his mom recalled.

This time, the Afro worked in his favor. “We got a call from the agency saying he got the job,” Burns said. “We still didn’t know how big this was going to be.”

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Ever since Rick Ross announced Diddy would be his new manager, the Biggie comparisons have been inevitable. Regardless of how logical or asinine as it may sound, Ross has been enjoying a lot of success lately and even had Diddy refer to him as the “Biggie of the South.” High praise coming from a man who was instrumental in Biggie’s success during the short time he was around to make music.

That being said, not everyone is going to latch on to these comparisons. Comparing anyone to legends is a daunting task, but when asking the opinion of a man who once (and apparently still does) had a problem with Ross, reservation is one of the many emotions that are thrown out there. Doggie Diamonds of Forbez DVD recently caught up with Tony Yayo to discuss the topic. A G-Unit member speaking on Rick Ross? Not hard to guess how this ended up.