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By Chrysalis
T’yanna Wallace was only three years old when her father Christopher—the rapper the world recognized as the Notorious B.I.G. or Biggie Smalls—was brutally killed in a drive-by shooting in Los Angeles. I was 22 and a college senior, living across the street from his mother, Voletta Wallace, on St. James Place in Brooklyn’s Clinton Hill neighborhood. Our shared street soon bore graffiti that read “We Love You, Biggie.”
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And last night, in the borough both she and her father called home, she opened Notoriouss Clothing, a brick-and-mortar store at 514 Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn Heights that she intends to be “a flagship store for streetwear,” as she told Brooklyn’s News 12:
“I just feel like when you listen to his music, you know he’s from Brooklyn . . . I don’t really hear a lot of people coming to Brooklyn and not thinking about Biggie.”
At 24, T’yanna Wallace is now the same age her father was when his life …
