Rap at auction: Biggie's crown and Tupac Shakur letters

Notorious B.I.G’s iconic plastic crown was sold for almost half a million pounds at a Sotheby’s hip-hop memorabilia auction in New York yesterday (September 15).The crown was worn and signed by Biggie, real name Christopher George Latore Wallace, in a 1997 photoshoot with Barron Claiborne, just three days before the rapper was shot and killed in Los Angeles.

By Dan FastenbergNEW YORK (Reuters) - It started out as just a plastic prop from a party shop but the gold colored crown that American rapper Biggie Smalls wore on the last photo shoot before his death could fetch hundreds of thousands of dollars at Sotheby's first-ever hip-hop auction.After highlighting sneakers and handbags in recent years, Sotheby's in New York is dedicating its September auction to hip-hop culture, featuring some 120 lots that will include boomboxes, photos of Snoop Dogg and

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Tekashi 6ix9ine says there is “no difference” between himself and Tupac Shakur.Speaking of the troubled past that they share in his first interview since being released from prison, 6ix9ine spoke of how he sees himself as the same kind of artist as Tupac.Speaking to The New York Times, the rapper was asked to comment on the view that he doesn’t deserve to be a public figure, or to have fame, based on his abusive past (6ix9ine filmed an underage girl performing a sexual act back in 2015).“No, I

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The signed plastic crown worn by rapper Notorious B.I.G. for the photoshoot titled ‘Notorious B.I.G as the K.O.N.Y’ by Barron Claiborne is pictured in this handout photo supplied by Sotheby’s, ahead of a Sept.

Rivals in life, the rappers Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac Shakur are being united for an auction at Sotheby’s, the first-ever dedicated hip-hop auction at a major international auction house.

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