Folta Wallace, the mother of the famous rapper, died in 78
Folita Wallace, the mother of the late rapper, died of the great reputation who worked to raise his short -term career but influencing hip -hop. It was 78.
We have suffered from a huge loss today. The Wallace family, our mother, the mother, the woman who devoted herself to lifting her son, Christopher Wallace, and preserving his legacy. He said Friday on her Facebook page. “It is very sad that we share this news, and we ask you to give our family the space and time needed to grieve this huge loss. Thank you for the continued flow of love, prayers and condolences at this difficult time.”
Wallace died on Friday morning in Stretsburg, Pennsylvania, Monroe Province judge, Thomas Yanak, confirmed to Associated Press. She died for natural reasons in caring for the elderly at home. Yanak did not immediately respond to the Times requests to comment.
Ibn Wallace, also known as Biggie, was shot in 1997 after the Mid-Wilshire Music Party, just two weeks before his album “Life after Death”. His mother worked to protect the legacy of the “Al -Mina” rapper and his wealth was transferred to her grandchildren, the “reputable” star “CJ” CJ Wallace and her daughter T’anna Dream Wallace. The family has also submitted a number of lawsuits and unlawful conspiracy.
She and her family also filed a lawsuit against the city of Los Angeles, claiming that the officials had installed the police in the slaughter of the rapper. A federal judge rejected this lawsuit in 2010 after lawyers said from both sides that they had reached an agreement that allows the lawsuit to be filed at a later time. The family brought many other lawsuits caused by killing, which are still unleashed.
Wallace, a Jamaican immigrant, worked as a pre -school teacher and was a single mother. Her son, who was 24 years old, was killed when he died, just six months after rapper Tupac Shakur, the competitor in Las Vegas. Brooklyn Emcee and rapper “Big Poppa”, born in Christopher Wallace, was among the most successful works launched by Mogul Mogul Sean “Didddy”. Six months after his death, his mother took the stage in MTV video music awards To accept the RAP Video Award (“Homnotize”) on his behalf.
She said: “I know if my son was here tonight, the first thing he would do was say,” Great even Brooklyn. ”
Two two years later, she was the friend of Shakour, Avene Shakur, on a unified front at the MTV Video Music Awards for the year 1999 to “Stand UNITED while mothers kept them [sons’] Legacy.
Wallace said: “The fact that we stand here shows even the power of faith, friends, family, loved ones and fans can do all of us.”
The Matriach also worked with other young musicians – Aaliyah and Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes and MAM Master Jay, among them – through the Christopher Wallace Memorial Foundation and Night (“Books instead of weapons”).
“It is our way of saying, keeping your head,” Wallace told Associated Press in 2003.
When combs fell from the blessing last year, Wallace was among those who Speak against the music producer After a video clip attacking his ex -girlfriend, Cassi Ventura, she appeared and made her “sick [her] stomach.”
“I don’t want to believe the things I heard, but I saw [the video]Wallace said Traded stone Last May. “I pray to God to apologize to her. I hope Sean will one day see and the only thing I want to do is to slap the daylight from him. You can quote it. Because I loved him. I didn’t want to believe all the terrible things, but I feel shy and critical.”
Baiji, who released his first album “Ready To Die” with Bad Boy Records in 1994, was recruited after his death in the Rock & Roll Hall in 2020 dedicated to him. Last year, it distinguished “magnetic hypnosis” Access to one billion currents On Spotify after its release in 1997.
In early 1997 in 1997 at the Times, Baiji, who describes his own reform, said: “What I do now is correct. I take care of my mother, my children and my colleagues. It is legal, and I just use a talent I must express myself and receive its salaries, so it is right. To follow this righteous path.
In 2005, Wallace published notes, “Biggie: Voletta Wallace, remember her son, Christopher Wallace, also known as a great reputation”, to honor Baiji, a description Its loss is like a feeling of “lead 100 pounds heavier in my chest.” ATRIA published book included unprecedented images and has become a bridle of Biggie, the singer Faih Evans. The book drew her son climbing to stardom and how Wallace worked to preserve her “bright and early and narrow and narrow son.” In it, she also condemned Biggie’s friends who claimed that she dealt with a little respect after his death, as well as her continuous endeavor to get to know her son’s killers.
In 2021, she worked as an executive producer in Netflix the documentary “Biggie: I got a story to its spirit”. Before that, she worked as a producer in the 2009 “reputable” biography, in which Angela Bassett played, and the son of Baiji played a smaller version of him. Jamal Wardard played the championship as a large copy of the rapper. She visited the group almost every day, and although she loved the final movie, she made her angry and sad.
“I learned a lot … about my son – a lot that I never knew. But I still love him because it was from [my heart] Love said here. ” cinema In 2009. “You cannot change love.”
To celebrate Biggie’s fifty birthday, she and the children of rapper met, along with the “Kim and Lil” collaborators, in the Empire State building when it changed its colors to red and white in its honor. New York also celebrated the rapper with Metrocard special version and the praise of its music at the Lincoln Center, diverse I mentioned.