The 100 Greatest Brooklynites: 40 to 31
How many times have you been at a party in Brooklyn when “Juicy” comes on, and everybody in the room starts dancing and singing along, especially the line, “spread love, it’s the Brooklyn way”? Christopher Wallace was raised by his mother in Clinton Hill before becoming one of the greats of hip-hop history, dying prematurely, and leaving behind a document of the Brooklyn we remember, or only think we do.