In 2005, she published the memoir Biggie: Voletta Wallace Remembers Her Son, Christopher Wallace, aka Notorious BIG.
She gave birth to her son Christopher, better known as Notorious BIG or Biggie Smalls, in Brooklyn, New York in 1972.
Her son’s father, a Jamaican welder and politician named Selwyn George Latore, left the family when his son was around 2 years old.
In one of his biggest hits, the 1994 hip-hop classic “Juicy,” Biggie rapped about being able to buy his mother mink coats and an Acura luxury car: “Thinkin' back on my one-room shack / Now my mom pimps an Ac' with minks on her back.”.
Wallace kept her son’s musical legacy alive after his drive-by murder in 1997.
