Voletta Wallace worked to elevate her son's short-lived but influential career to hip-hop greatness. Notorious B.I.G. was gunned down in 1997 in Los Angeles.

The mother of a notorious rapper, who protected his legacy since his 1997 death, has died while in hospice care.

Voletta Wallace, the Notorious B.I.G.'s mother who kept his legacy alive in the decades following his passing, has died. Wallace was in hospice care at her residence in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, when she died of natural causes on Thursday.

It accused Mack of hiring Muhammad to shoot the hip-hop artist and police of failing to investigate properly after a fellow officer came under suspicion. In 2021, Wallace worked as an executive producer on the Netflix documentary “Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell,