On Saturday (May 21),The Notorious BIG would have turned 50 years old. In his honor the Brooklyn native’s mother, Voletta Wallace, celebrated her son’s posthumous entrance into the Web3 community in a loving Instagram post, which letting her reveal just how many years in the making it’s been for the project.
“I’m humbled and very excited to share what we’ve been working on for 2 years, which is now ready for Biggie fans new and old to enjoy,” Wallace wrote. “Today we bring my son Christopher’s Hyperrealistic avatar in The Brook metaverse to the world.. I believe you will love it as much as I do..”
The Christopher Wallace Estate announced the first official Biggie NFT (non-fungible token) collection in partnership with the Quincy Jones-backed Web3 company OneOf. A percentage of the proceeds from the NFT collection will be donated to The Christopher Wallace Memorial Foundation.
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