Voletta Wallace, the mother of the late rapper Notorious B.I.G. who worked to elevate his short-lived but influential career to hip-hop greatness, has died. She was 78. “We suffered a tremendous ...

Voletta Wallace, the mother of slain 90s rapper Notorious BIG, died at her home in Pennsylvania. The 78-year-old was receiving hospice care and died of natural causes, the county coroner said.

Voletta Wallace, the mother of the Brooklyn rapper the Notorious B.I.G., whose stewardship of her son’s career, and of his legacy after he was killed in 1997, helped cement him as a hip-hop ...