Following his release from jail in 1991, he recorded a demo tape titled “Microphone Murderer” under the name of Biggie Smalls. The tape was picked up by the editor of The Source magazine ...

On his original demo tape for Uptown Records, his artist name was Biggie Smalls, named after a character from Bill Cosby and Sidney Poitier’s 1975 film Let’s Do It Again. But someone else had ...

So Biggie's demo tape had become kind of like an urban legend ... we were to never hearing the Notorious B.I.G. Or the name Biggie Smalls, the rapper. Nobody can ever say that she didn't try ...

He recorded his first demo tape under the name Biggie Smalls, and Uptown Records executive Puff Daddy (a.k.a. P. Diddy) quickly worked to make him a star. In 1994, The Notorious B.I.G. (who had to ...

Christopher Wallace was shopping a demo tape that he'd made under the name The Notorious B.I.G. (his first choice for nom de plume — Biggie Smalls — had already been taken by another rapper ...