I got a story to tell...March 18, 1997. It has been nine days since the hip hop world was stricken with tragedy once again. Another icon, killed tragically, in front of hundreds of people in the middle of a street, over a war that was bigger than him.At this point, it had been six months since the passing of one of the most complicated, and notorious rappers in the world. 2Pac Shakur was shot and killed in Las Vegas following a Mike Tyson fight in which the rapper, and members of his crew got into a public altercation at the casino at the MGM Grand. At that point, in 1996, 2Pac and Biggie we engaged in a growing narrative many publications and media outlets dubbed the East vs West war. It was a war that took two of the biggest superstars the genre had seen at that moment.Surely, we could not go through this kind of tragedy again, right? We learned our lessons. But, not even one year later and we were all shocked once again.Christopher Wallace, Frank White, The Notorious B.I.G., Biggie Smalls. Whatever you ended up calling him, in three short years he cemented a legacy that has lasted almost a quarter-century and growing using imagery through a unique cadence in which he vividly shared the stories of not only himself, but the surrounding community he grew up in on the corner of Fulton St. & St. James Place in Brooklyn, New York City, New York.At the time Biggie. had just finished his sophomore album,

. It was a project he was excited about, ready to show the lighter side of his personality, his growth, and to showcase that he would indeed be here for a while.And just like that, it was all taken away.On March 9, 1997, the Notorious B.I.G. had presented an award at the 1997 Soul Train Music Awards. Afterwards, he attended a Vibe Magazine party at the Peterson Automotive Museum in Los Angeles. Wearing a Bernini sweater, Karl Kani jeans, and Timberland boots, the rapper left the party at about 12:30AM PST. He entered the passenger side of a GMC Suburban, which was sandwiched in the middle of the crew's 3-car caravan.As they stopped at Wilshire Boulevard and South Fairfax Avenue, only feet away from where they were just partying, a Chevy SS Impala pulled up to the car and shot at the door where Biggie sat. The 24-year-old rapper was declared dead at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center at 1:15 a.m. His body was identified Sunday afternoon at the Los Angeles coroner’s office by his ex-wife, singer Faith Evans, and his mother, who flew in from New York, officials said.His next album was set to be released two weeks later,

It was time to bring him back home to Brooklyn.Wallace's body was flown back to New York where friends and family