15 Grotesque Foods Biggie Smalls Devoured Before He Died At 24

Christopher Wallace used food to measure money, and he wrote the measurements down. In 1994, on the record that made him famous, he named a breakfast of T-bone steak, cheese eggs and grape juice, because that is what having money looked like from an apartment on St. James Place. By 1997 he was naming cracked crab, lobster and escargot. Same man, same appetite, three years apart, and a completely different price per plate. This is a countdown of fifteen things the Notorious B.I.G. actually ate, from penny candy at the corner store that got a ten-year-old the nickname Big, through the bodega bacon egg and cheese and the strawberry cheesecake at Junior's, to the plate of fried chicken sitting on a studio floor in March 1997 that he reportedly never touched. It ends in his mother's kitchen in Clinton Hill. ABOUT WICKED APPETITES Welcome to Wicked Appetites. Pull up a chair. 🍴 Hollywood's golden-age legends lived big, and they ate even bigger. Behind the glamour, the tuxedos and the sold-out shows were plates you'd never find on a menu today: jellied meats, questionable casseroles, 3 a.m. diner feasts and "health foods" that were anything but. On this channel we dig into the strange, shocking and downright grotesque things that stars, crooners and icons of retro America really ate. Some of it will make you hungry. Most of it won't. NOTE This video is an independent work of documentary commentary and historical research. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, sponsored by or authorised by the estate of Christopher Wallace, Bad Boy Records, Atlantic Records, or any other rights holder. All trademarks referred to remain the property of their respective owners. Portions of the narration and imagery in this video were produced using AI tools. Historical claims are drawn from published biographies, archive interviews and contemporary press reporting. Where sources disagree or an account is uncertain, the narration says so rather than filling the gap.