High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Christopher George Latore Wallace (May 21, 1972—March 9, 1997), best known as The Notorious B.I.G., was an American rapper. He was also known as Biggie Smalls (after a character in the 1975 film Let`s Do It Again), Big Poppa, and The Black Frank White (after the main character of the 1990 film King of New York).