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Back Stories: Notorious B.I.G.'s Funeral

NEW YORK (WCBS 880) -- On March 9, 1997, the Notorious B.I.G. was shot and killed in Los Angeles.

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Nine days later, he was laid to rest in Brooklyn. Paul Murnane covered the funeral and remembers it was a very tense event.

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