The Infamous B.I.G.’s mom Voletta Wallace has handed away.

Biggie Smalls’ mom died Friday morning in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, in accordance with Monroe County Coroner Thomas Yanac, reviews TMZ. She was 72 and the reason for demise appears to be pure causes.

Following Biggie’s demise in 1997, she helped preserve his property efficiently and celebrated his life. In 2005, she wrote a memoir entitled “Biggie: Voletta Wallace Remembers Her Son, Christopher Wallace, aka Infamous B.I.G.”

In 2009, she additionally served as a producer for the biopic “Infamous” the place Angela Bassett performed her position. She defined throughout an interview on the time that she visited the set every single day, and that the ultimate product stunned her.

“[it] made me indignant, made me unhappy. I discovered rather a lot… about my son — rather a lot that I by no means knew. However I nonetheless love him as a result of he was from right here [gestures to heart].”