Sean 'Diddy' Combs led a standing ovation for his late 'friend, brother, and artist' Biggie Smalls on what would have been his 45th birthday at Sunday's Billboard Music Awards.
In 1993, the 47-year-old Bad Boy Records mogul signed the rap legend (born Christopher Wallace), who sold 25M records before being gunned down at the tender age of 24 in 1997.
'It all started with the Notorious B.I.G.,' said the three-time Grammy winner in a chic hat selected by stylist Derek S. Roche.
His Ready to Die album, his Life After Death album - classics. He changed the game of hip-hop forever. Biggie was the best rapper I ever had a chance to work with. Watching him and seeing him work is something that words can't explain.'
The Harlem-born hip-hop star concluded: 'Happy birthday, Biggie. B.I.G. forever!'
Diddy also gave a shout-out to Biggie's mother Voletta Wallace and then brought his son, CJ Wallace, onstage the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas.
'I know my father is looking down on all of us tonight and all of this love and support,' the 20-year-old actor-rapper - whose mother is R&B belter Faith Evans - said.
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