{"id":7758,"date":"2025-02-22T00:25:32","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T19:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/us\/?p=7758"},"modified":"2025-02-22T00:48:33","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T19:48:33","slug":"7758","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/us\/7758\/","title":{"rendered":"Legendary Rapper’s Mom Dead At 78,"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Notorious B.I.G.\u2019s mom Voletta Wallace dead at 78<\/p>\n

She\u2019s reunited with her son again.<\/p>\n

The Notorious B.I.G.\u2019s mom, Voletta Wallace, has died.<\/p>\n

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Wallace passed away at 78 on Friday morning at home in Stroudsburg, Penn., the Monroe County Coroner,\u00a0Thomas Yanac, confirmed to The Post.<\/p>\n

B.I.G.\u2019s mom spent her final days in hospice care, with the coroner revealing she died of natural causes.<\/p>\n

Wallace was a legend in her own right in the hip-hop community, raising B.I.G. (real name Christopher Wallace) as a single mother in Brooklyn after his father walked out on the family in 1974.<\/p>\n

She was\u00a0a Jamaican immigrant and worked as a schoolteacher.<\/p>\n

B.I.G. was murdered on March 9, 1997<\/a>, after leaving a\u00a0Soul Train Awards\u00a0after-party. He was shot dead in a drive-by while sitting in a green Chevy Suburban, which was parked on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

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The Notorious B.I.G.\u2019s mom Voletta Wallace dead at 78 She\u2019s reunited with her son again. The Notorious B.I.G.\u2019s mom, Voletta Wallace, has died. Wallace passed away at 78 on Friday morning at home in Stroudsburg, Penn., the Monroe County Coroner,\u00a0Thomas Yanac, confirmed to The Post. B.I.G.\u2019s mom spent her final days in hospice care, with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-memorial"],"yoast_head":"\nLegendary Rapper's Mom Dead At 78,<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Notorious B.I.G.\u2019s mom Voletta Wallace dead at 78 She\u2019s reunited with her son again. The Notorious B.I.G.\u2019s mom, Voletta Wallace, has died. 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