Smalls

Styles P has revealed the late Notorious B.I.G. wanted to squash the beef between The LOX and Diddy before he was killed in a drive-by shooting in 1997. During his interview with The Art of Dialogue, Styles reflected on the night Biggie was killed in Los Angeles, California, and how badly he wanted the two parties to bury their hatchet. According to the Yonkers native, Big was guiding the trio on how to handle the situation with Diddy that eventually spilled over in the early 2000s. “We literally had just left — we was…

Diddy’s former bodyguard claims the story surrounding Biggie Smalls’ death was a flat-out lie.While speaking to the Art of Dialogue, Gene Deal was pressed about his involvement in one of music’s most notorious unsolved murders. Deal, who worked as Diddy’s security in the 1990s, insisted Biggie wasn’t killed in a drive-by, as many were made to believe. How does he claim to know? Because he witnessed the attack with his own eyes.“Before we left Andre Harrell’s house, Puff told me I didn’t have to go,” Deal said. “Now, I…

The team created a database of “micro-expression reference materials,” analyzed “pore-level resolution imagery,” and tracked the elasticity of sub-skin layers to understand how Smalls’s facial skin moved, Scott explains. Those minute changes in facial expression were crucial to creating as real an avatar as possible.  All that research paid off. “I have seen the avatar throughout the process of building … and it looks very real to me. I see my son’s characteristics in the detailing,” his mother, Voletta Wallace, said…

A year ago, Chris Smalls couldn’t get politicians to return his calls. But on a muggy morning in late April, two of the biggest names in politics — Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) — were making a special trip to Staten Island, New York to visit with the 33-year-old former Amazon warehouse process assistant, father-of-three, and leader of a resurgent labor movement sweeping the country. Smalls and his former colleagues, organizing under the banner of the newly formed Amazon Labor…