Icon: The Notorious B.I.G.
By Sean Fennessey, eMusic Contributor
It's not that he was the first storyteller. Or the first vulnerable MC. Or the first fabulist. Or gangsta. Or lyrically lyrical lyricist. Or loverman. Or even the first fat rapper. But Christopher Wallace, while hardly the first anything, was often the best of those, and so much more. As time passes, he is remembered for his music, but with qualifications about his violent death and questions of what could have been. It's true, at… more »