Dannii Minogue

This marks the first release off her forthcoming 2005 album due out in March. Dannii's You Won't Forget About Me entered the UK Single Charts at #7, making it the 5th biggest club track in the UK of 2004. It was also released on some "Rocafella Records" B-sides and some street "mixtapes" by Eminem's "Shady Records" and other mixtapes made by street DJs. Flower Power, the original instrumental track by Flower Power was taken by Dannii and mated with original lyrics written by herself. It got out as a single and hit New York radio stations as a big hit. With AATW, Dannii released the song You Won't Forget About Me. In 2003, Puff Daddy gave 50 Cent rights to sample Biggie's verses from "Niggas" (a song from the Born Again album) into a song called "To All My Niggas". In late 2004, Dannii signed with Around The World Records, an independent Dance label. The video for the song also featured appearances by 98 Degrees and Fat Joe.

Dannii was married to Australian actor Julian McMahon in 1993 and after their divorce was engaged for a time in the late 1990s to Canadian Formula One driver Jacques Villeneuve. Diddy. After the success of this album Dannii was back in to studio to work on a new album but due to problems within the Label and a 'management change' within London Records' structure, Dannii parted with London Records in a mutually agreed decision. It featured guest raps from Biggie's friends, Lil Kim and P. Neon Nights is Dannii's most successful album to date. It had a hit single called "N.O.T.O.R.I.O.U.S" (interpolation to the Duran Duran's song of the same name) that wasn't a tribute, but was a "shout out" to the slain rapper. Neon Nights was co-written and co-produced by Dannii. Puff Daddy released Biggie's third album, Born Again.

The remix was a huge UK club-track. album. I Begin To Wonder was also briefly released as a remix with the huge Dead Or Alive hit You Spin Me Round (Like A Record). The year 1999 saw another release of a posthumous Notorious B.I.G. This album, which entered the UK charts at #8, gave her 3 more UK Top 10 hits, including her biggest to date - I Begin To Wonder which reached #2. Biggie's biggest chart hit was with the song "Mo' Money, Mo' Problems," an upbeat number featuring rappers Mase and Puff Daddy, and sampling the disco song "I'm Coming Out" by Diana Ross for the beat. Her first album under this deal was 2003's Neon Nights. The song sampled the melody of The Police's hit song "Every Breath You Take." All these artists performed the song with (former Police vocalist) Sting during the 1997 MTV Video Music Awards.

Following the success of this, Dannii landed a 6 album deal with London Records. The song featured Puff Daddy, Wallace's widow Faith Evans and R&B group 112. The track hit #3 and this became Dannii's 13th top 40 hit in the UK. However, the single that carried this album to the top was "I'll Be Missing You", a tribute and a massively successful single dedicated to Biggie. In 2001, Dannii recorded a song with Dutch dance act Riva called Who Do You Love Now?. At the end of 1997, Puff Daddy released his debut album "No Way Out," which featured Biggie on a number of songs, notably in the chorus of the single "Been Around the World" over David Bowie's sample ("Let's Dance!"). She toured Australia in the sell out Grease: The Arena Spectacular and followed that with performances in the pop-orientated-opera Notre Dame de Paris in London's West End as well as later taking on the controversial Vagina Monologues. The album sold 10 million copies, probably due in part to its timely posthumous release, and it is still the biggest selling hip-hop album of all time.

Now without a record deal, Dannii returned to acting and took on stage performances. It hit number one on the Billboard charts and spawned several hit singles in the United States. Following the album's commercial failure, Dannii was dropped from Eternal Records. The album was released only two weeks after Biggie's murder. However, Girl (like Get Into You before it) failed to take the UK by storm and entered the charts at #57. Life After Death, Biggie's second album, was released posthumously and debuted at #1 on the charts. In 1997 Dannii landed a multi-million dollar contract with Eternal Records, who released the album Girl with her first top 5 hit All I Wanna Do. Additionally, Director Nick Broomfield has released an investigative documentary called 'Biggie and Tupac' which implicates the LAPD and Suge Knight, and the Los Angeles Times ran an article entitled "Who Shot Tupac Shakur?" by reporter Chuck Phillips, which concludes that Biggie Smalls was ultimately behind the Las Vegas shooting of Tupac.

After the poor sales of Get Into You, Dannii parted company with RCA and Mushroom Records. In his book, LAbyrinth, LAPD officer Randall Sullivan probes the circumstances and figures involved in the shootings. The follow up album Get Into You (1993) didn't take the scene as successfully, with This Is It being her only top 10 hit from it. Death Row Records CEO Suge Knight and the Mob Piru Bloods gang with whom he associates are among the prime suspects for involvement. Dannii also filmed her first movie role in Secrets (1993). Neither murder has been conclusively solved, though theories abound as to the motives and identities of the murderers. Love and Kisses and... was remixed and edited for a UK release in 1991. On March 9, 1997, the horrific events came full circle when Biggie was shot and killed in Los Angeles, where he had been attending the 11th Annual Soul Train Music Awards at the Shrine Auditorium and Expo Center.

Her debut album Love And Kisses, released in 1990, contained five top 40 hits including Love And Kisses, Success, Jump To The Beat and Baby Love. Rumors of Biggie's possible involvement in the murder cropped up almost immediately. This led to Dannii to sign to Mushroom Records and enter into the pop charts. The second of these shootings was fatal, taking place in Las Vegas, where Tupac had been watching a boxing match. From there she landed a role in the successful soap opera Home and Away. This feud hung over a period of highly publicized rap violence that began with two shootings in which Shakur was the victim. Dannii began her career on the Australian talent show Young Talent Time. This rivalry existed between Biggie and Death Row rap superstar Tupac Shakur, a New York City native, who relocated to Los Angeles and Death Row Records because of the feud.

She is also the younger sister of Australian superstar Kylie Minogue. Although Ready to Die brought massive fame to Biggie, he is most famed for his somewhat overplayed and ultimately tragic involvement in rap's most famous feud between the East and West Coast scenes. Danielle Jane "Dannii" Minogue (born October 20, 1971) is an Australian-born singer-songwriter, actress, fashion designer and all round performer. "One More Chance," which sampled the R&B song "Stay With Me," was a remix of the song by the same name that originally appeared on Ready to Die.. That same year, B.I.G.'s single One More Chance debuted at #5 on the Pop Charts, tying Scream/Childhood as the highest debut single in music history. That same year saw the mainstream introduction of Biggie's labelmates Lil' Kim and Lil' Caesar by the rap star.

(Junior Masters At Finding Intelligent Attitudes) released the album Conspiracy. In 1995, Biggie's new group Junior M.A.F.I.A. The album features one of rap's most famous playa anthems, the song "Big Poppa." Biggie's album drew critical acclaim for its vivid story-telling and razor-sharp lyricism, such as "They don't know about the stress filled day/Baby on the way, mad bills to pay/That's why you drink tanqueray/So you can reminisce and wish/You wasn't living so devilish." The album is considered by many to be one of the best and most hardcore hip-hop albums of all time. Ready to Die is regarded as one of hip-hop's all-time classic albums.

Blige on What's the 411?, then released Ready to Die, his debut album, in 1994. He first gained notice for working with Mary J. In his lyrics, Biggie also referred to himself under the alias Frank White (taken from the 1990 movie King of New York starring Christopher Walken). Christopher Wallace (May 21, 1972 - March 9, 1997), also known as Biggie Smalls (after a stylish gangster in the 1975 comedy, Let's Do it Again), but best known as The Notorious B.I.G. (Business Instead of Game)., was a popular Brooklyn-born rapper of the mid-1990s.

Born Again (Bad Boy Records, 1999). Life After Death (Bad Boy Records, 1997). Ready to Die (Bad Boy Records, 1995). Download sample of "Niggas Bleed" from Life After Death.