18 years after his death, HipHopDX retraced the location of The Notorious B.I.G.’s last moments and visited the site of his shooting in Los Angeles.
Tracking the path Biggie took from a Vibe after party to the traffic light where he was shot in 1997, DX’s Andre Granthelped capture the modern-day setting of the still iconic intersection of Wilshire Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue.
The intersection is currently the site of the under-construction Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, a planned 300,000 square foot space dedicated to the history of and ongoing education about film.
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B.I.G. was only 24-years old when he was murdered. After the shooting, theReady To Dierapper was rushed to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center where he was pronounced dead early on the morning of March 9 following an emergency surgery.
More than ten years after his death an autopsy report for Christopher Wallace was made public. The report revealed that three of the four shots that struck Biggie were not fatal, the shot that killed him injuring his colon, liver, heart, and one lung.
