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Notorious B.I.G. Murder Site

6250 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA

Six months after Tupac's murder, Notorious B.I.G. was killed at a red light in LA. He was in town to promote peace between East and West Coast rap.

📅 1997–present🏛️ Historic SiteStill here
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The story

On March 9, 1997, Christopher "Biggie" Wallace left a Soul Train Music Awards after-party at the Petersen Automotive Museum. His SUV stopped at a red light on Wilshire Boulevard at the intersection with Fairfax Avenue.

A dark Chevrolet Impala SS pulled alongside. The driver, dressed in a suit and bow tie, fired a 9mm blue-steel pistol into Biggie's passenger door. Four bullets hit him - the fatal one pierced his hip and struck his colon, liver, heart, and left lung. He was 24.

Like Tupac's murder six months earlier, Biggie's case was never solved. The LAPD has theorized it was retaliation for Tupac, possibly involving Death Row Records. The killer's identity remains one of hip-hop's great mysteries.

What's There Now

The intersection looks like any other in LA. No memorial marks the spot. Biggie's influence on hip-hop, however, remains visible everywhere - his flow and storytelling changed the genre permanently.

Everything that was here

Nearby history

Petersen Automotive Museum (Tupac Last Seen)

6060 Wilshire Boulevard · 277 m away
Tupac Shakur left a party at this museum on September 7, 1996. Twenty minutes later, he was shot at a red light. He died

Carthay Circle Theatre

6316 San Vicente Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90048 · 952 m away

Pan-Pacific Auditorium

7600 W Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90036 · 1.5 km away

Canter's Deli

419 North Fairfax Avenue · 1.7 km away
Canter's moved to Fairfax in 1948 and, in 1953, down the block into the old Esquire Theater, which had shown Yiddish-lan

Tail o' the Pup

329 North San Vicente Boulevard · 2.5 km away

Chasen's

9039 Beverly Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90048 · 2.9 km away

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