Biggie Smalls Memorial Gala

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The Christopher Wallace Memorial Fund, the charity organization founded by The Notorious B.I.G.'s mother, Voletta Wallace, in honor of her son, will be holding their inaugural benefit gala dinner on Tuesday, March 30th. The benefit, at Chelsea Piers in Manhattan, is to provide educational materials for schools and community centers throughout New York City, with plates going for $1,000 apiece. Faith Evans, Biggy Smalls' widow, is scheduled to perform, with catering being provided by Abigail Kirsch Caterers.

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Song Stories

“The Everchanging Spectrum of a Lie”

The Joy Formidable | 2011

The opener off the Welsh group’s The Big Roar album was an epic one, but the band was worried that track had polarized fans. “The first song is eight minutes long,” Rhydian Dafydd, the Joy Formidable bassist, said. “If you did that in the Seventies people would be, ‘Whatever.’ You do it now, people think, ‘Holy s---!’ Some people think it’s the f---ing greatest track on the entire album, and some people think it’s f---ing boring. It’s that element of needing to challenge people.” The band concluded through the song’s lyrics that love was the “everchanging spectrum of a lie.”

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