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Grave Diggin'

By Chris Nelson

Boston Phoenix | January 5, 2006

By the time most rappers drop their fourth album, either everybody’s paying attention or nobody is, but for Christopher "The Notorious B.I.G." Wallace, the truth may be somewhere in between.

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Tags: B.I.G., biggie smalls, Duets: The Final Chapter, Notorious

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The Boston Phoenix was founded in 1966 as an arts and entertainment newspaper for the 18-40 year old market. Today, with editions in Rhode Island and Portland, Maine, the Phoenix has a distribution of 220,000 and more than 600,000 readers...

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