Voletta Wallace, the mother of the legendary rapper The Notorious B.I.G., passed away at the age of 78 on February 21, 2025.
She died of natural causes at her home in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, where she had been under hospice care, as confirmed by Monroe County Coroner Thomas Yanac.
A Jamaican immigrant and former preschool teacher, Wallace raised her only child, Christopher Wallace (better known as Biggie Smalls) in Brooklyn, New York, as a single mother after his father left when he was two.
Following Biggie’s tragic death in a still unsolved drive by shooting in Los Angeles in 1997 at age 24, Voletta became the steadfast guardian of his legacy.
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