Was Biggie Lying about Being From Bed-Stuy?  Fans of Biggie will
remember that the late but relentlessly beloved rap icon often
remarked on his hardscrabble younger years in Brooklyn's
Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood, where he grew up in an
apartment with a single mother. Now, 41 years after Christopher
Wallace was born, and 16 years after he was murdered, the
Notorious BIG's childhood home is up for sale. But things, it
would appear, "done changed" since Biggie lived there.  The
apartment, renovated a few years ago, is a far cry from the
cramped, bland place depicted in BIG's rags-to-riches anthem
"Juicy," what with its three bedrooms and brightly lit den.
Beyond that, the former Biggie residence is not located in
Biggie's beloved Bed-Stuy, as one might have been led to believe
from the rapper's frequent shoutouts ("Bedford-Stuyvesant the
livest one!"). Instead, apartment 3L at 226 Saint James Place is
in neighboring Clinton Hill, just down the street from the fancy
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