As always, L.A. Times reporter Chuck Phillips gets the skinny on the FBI's decision to investigate the 1997 murder of hip-hop star the Notorious B.I.G.
Just like Tupac Shakur's 1996 murder, the assassination of B.I.G. -- outside the Petersen Automotive Museum at Wilshire and Fairfax -- has never been solved. But some have said for years that an LAPD officer, David Mack, hired a friend, Amir Muhammad (at the behest of Death Row Records' "Suge" Knight), to kill the rapper (also known as "Biggie Smalls," and by his real name, Christopher Wallace). The FBI -- tipped by a VH1 special, of all things, is suddenly interested.
Phillips has been on top of the Biggie/Tupac beat for years. For this story, he easily gets Suge Knight -- currently in jail -- and Muhammad to speak on the record. Not surprisingly, they deny everything.
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