Christopher Wallace

Interviews || BY Jen Yamato || 05 16 2011 10:20 AM

Christopher Jordan Wallace, Son of Biggie Smalls, Makes a Name for Himself in Everything Must Go

Before he made his screen debut in the 2009 biopic Notorious portraying his own father, the late rapper Christopher "Biggie" Wallace, newcomer Christopher Jordan "CJ" Wallace had no aspirations for a Hollywood career. But the acting bug hit and a call from writer-director Dan Rush followed, and within a few years Wallace, now 14, found himself playing opposite Will Ferrell in the achingly bittersweet indie drama Everything Must Go, about an alcoholic salesman struggling to cope with losing it all.

Newswire || BY Jen Yamato || 04 07 2011 10:20 AM

Do Newly Released FBI Files Support Conspiracy Theories in 2002 Documentary Biggie & Tupac?

Back in 2002, documentarian Nick Broomfield released the documentary Biggie & Tupac, theorizing that Death Row Records exec Suge Knight and members of the LAPD may have been involved in the still-unsolved 1997 murder of rapper Christopher "Biggie Smalls" Wallace. This week, the FBI released eight years' worth of heavily redacted files on the case, including confirmation of some of Broomfield's theories.