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The following 12 months, he led his protégé team Junior M.A.F.I.A., a team of himself and longtime mates, which include Lil' Kim, to chart achievements. Lil' Cease recalled the pair as shut, frequently touring alongside one another whenever they have been not working. According to him, Wallace was a repeated visitor at Shakur's residence and they expended time collectively when Shakur was in California or Washington, D.C. Following Tupac Shakur's loss of life in a drive-by capturing in Las Vegas in September 1996, speculations of involvement in Shakur's murder by prison components orbiting the Bad Boy circle circulated as a final result of Wallace's public feud with Shakur. On March 9, 1997, 6 months after Shakur's dying, Wallace was murdered in a travel-by capturing although browsing Los Angeles. After launch from jail, Wallace created a demo tape, Microphone Murderer, though calling himself Biggie Smalls, alluding both of those to Calvin Lockhart's character in the 1975 film Let's Do It Again and to his very own stature and being overweight, 6 ft three inches (1.91 m) and three hundred to 380 lb (140-170 kg). Upon listening to the demo tape, Sean "Puffy" Combs, continue to with the A&R division of Uptown Records, organized to meet up with Wallace. Born and elevated in Brooklyn, New York City, Wallace signed to Sean "Puffy" Combs' label Bad Boy Records as it launched in 1993, and acquired publicity by means of options on many other artists' singles that yr.