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The Notorious B.I.G. was one of the most charismatic and talented artists of the 1990s. Born Christopher Wallace and raised in Clinton Hill/Bed Stuy, Brooklyn, Biggie lived an almost archetypal rap life. Biggie released his first record, Ready to Die, in 1994, when he was only 22. Less than three years later, he was killed just days before the planned release of his second record Life After Death. Journalist Justin Tinsley’s It Was All a Dream is a fresh, insightful telling of the life beyond the legend.

Henry "Biggie" Abbott is the son of one of Finch, Iowa's most famous athletes. His father was a baseball legend and his step-dad is a close second. At an obese 300+ pounds though, Biggie himself prefers classroom success to sports. As a perfectionist, he doesn't understand why someone would be happy getting two hits in five trips to the plate. "Forty percent, that's an F in any class", he would say. As Biggie's junior year begins, the girl of his dreams, Annabelle Rivers, starts to flirt with him and suggests he should play baseball.

In this second edition of The Murder of Biggie Smalls, Cathy Scott delves behind the scenes to pore over police records, coroner reports, FBI files, and interviews, including with Biggie’s mother, Voletta Wallace, to reveal new startling facts surrounding the gangsta rapper’s murder. The Notorious B.I.G. exploded onto the hip-hop scene in 1995 with his platinum-selling album Ready to Die. Biggie Smalls, born Christopher Wallace and performing as Notorious B.I.G., grew up in the Bed-Stuy neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York.

Nancy Bell is a Texan with a flair for small-town mysteries.This popular series features Biggie Weatherford, an amateur sleuth and the richest woman in Job’s Crossing. When the town mayor drops dead—face first into his angel food cake—Biggie leads a diverse group in solving this murder despite her personal distaste for the man himself.

Biggie Weatherford, the Miss Marple of Job’s Crossing, Texas, is back in this sequel to best-selling author Nancy Bell’s hilarious Biggie and the Poisoned Politician. This time around, Biggie tries to discover who killed the mortician. Shenanigans are afoot in Job’s Crossing. When the three-inch heel breaks off gay police deputy Butch Jenkins’ cowboy boot, thief Cooter McNutt escapes—until Aunt Vita straightarms Cooter and sits on him.

Duane ‘Keffe D’ Davis, former shot caller for the Southside Compton Crips and kingpin of a Compton-based drug operation, rose to national prominence as one of the only living witnesses to the 1996 slaying of rapper Tupac Shakur after being featured in several TV specials on A&E (2017), USA Network (2017), Fox (2017), and BET (2018). More than 20 years after the killings of Tupac and Biggie, Keffe D has released his gritty memoir.

Luther Abernathy has a bad habit of opening everyone’s mail and sharing their most intimate secrets with anyone who will listen. So it’s no surprise J.R. finds him murdered one day. Time for Biggie to offer her sleuthing abilities in the investigation.

A victim of foul play, Firman Birdsong spends the Grand Opening of the Birdsong brothers’ chicken restaurant dead under a table—with his gravy covered, parsley-garnished body and his tomato-stuffed mouth. Biggie and her young grandson, J.R., investigate the murder. But as the suspect list swells, J.R. believes Biggie cares more about detecting than protecting him from a brewing custody battle—and the investigation takes an awful turn.

Nancy Bell's popular mystery series combines colorful characters, a small-town setting, down-home Texas humor, and one of the most wildly misnamed sleuths in the genre. A diminutive, shrewd grandmother, "Biggie" Weatherford is an amateur detective and professional collector of gossip. In Biggie and the Devil Diet, she investigates a murder at a weight-loss spa for wealthy teenagers.

It's true that Maria Konnikova had never actually played poker before and didn't even know the rules when she approached Erik Seidel, Poker Hall of Fame inductee and winner of tens of millions of dollars in earnings, and convinced him to be her mentor. But she knew her man: a famously thoughtful and broad-minded player, he was intrigued by her pitch that she wasn't interested in making money so much as learning about life.

Nancy Bell’s best-selling Biggie series combines Texas small-town humor with tantalizing mysteries. As J.R., Biggie Weatherford’s 12-year-old grandson, recounts Biggie’s uncanny ability to solve the peskiest cases, his observations are spiced with his wry adolescent view of grownups. A trip to a nearby town introduces J.R. to a ghost and presents Biggie with a perplexing local murder.

Acclaimed journalist Randall Sullivan follows Russell Poole, a highly decorated LAPD detective who in 1997 was called to investigate a controversial cop-on-cop shooting, eventually to discover that the officer killed was tied to Marion “Suge” Knight’s notorious gangsta rap label, Death Row Records. During his investigation, Poole came to realize that a growing cadre of black officers were allied not only with Death Row, but with the murderous Bloods street gang. And incredibly, Poole began to uncover evidence that at least some of these “gangsta cops” may have been involved in the murders of rap superstars Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac Shakur.

Welcome to the Biggie & Smallz Podcast, where the passion for Manchester United runs deep. Join your hosts, Keith Ippolito and D McGuigan, as they take you on a rollercoaster ride through the highs and lows of supporting one of the world’s most iconic football clubs. From the glory days to the present struggles, get ready for raw and unfiltered opinions that only true lifelong fans can offer.

2 Friends, 1 Big (Evan Hughes) & 1 Small (Rafi Abdulmaseeh), laughing at stupid stuff and most definitely having stupid stories, come along to experience this!

A podcast about Orlando and mouthwatering discussions about the local food scene with insider tips on where to dine in the City Beautiful!

A podcast about Small Business and creatives sharing their stories and inspiring you, with some sandwich talk on the side- edited and produced in Orlando, FL by Biggie - owner of Deli Fresh Threads

The ‘All Stars’ edition will feature carefully selected housemates and fan favorites from previous editions of the show. Fans can expect a line-up of exciting and engaging tasks, unpredictable twists and turns, including fan-favourite ‘Ninjas’. This bbnaija All Stars season will also include the famous pool and grill party, the Saturday Night Raves as well as the Sunday Live Eviction show. Ebuka remains the HOST of the show. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/franklyspeakingwithglory/message

Host Ryan Thomas from the Thomas Take Sports Show stops by as we talk MLB Trade fallout.  Biggie is back from North Dakota and was a little rowdy, and Mongo is back with his news of the week!

The ‘All Stars’ edition will feature carefully selected housemates and fan favorites from previous editions of the show. Fans can expect a line-up of exciting and engaging tasks, unpredictable twists and turns, including fan-favourite ‘Ninjas’. This bbnaija All Stars season will also include the famous pool and grill party, the Saturday Night Raves as well as the Sunday Live Eviction show. Ebuka remains the HOST of the show. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/franklyspeakingwithglory/message

The ‘All Stars’ edition will feature carefully selected housemates and fan favorites from previous editions of the show. Fans can expect a line-up of exciting and engaging tasks, unpredictable twists and turns, including fan-favourite ‘Ninjas’. This bbnaija All Stars season will also include the famous pool and grill party, the Saturday Night Raves as well as the Sunday Live Eviction show. Ebuka remains the HOST of the show. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/franklyspeakingwithglory/message