Top 10 Celebrity Funerals
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Christopher Wallace, the Brooklyn-born rapper known simply as "Biggie," was gunned down during a drive-by shooting in L.A. on March 9, 1997, just three years after releasing his first album, the eerily titled Ready to Die. The still unsolved murder, like the shooting death of rapper Tupac Shakur, shocked the hip-hop community. Sean (Diddy) Combs, Queen Latifah, Flava Flav, Mary J. Blige, Run-DMC and Busta Rhymes were among the rap stars who turned out for his memorial. Thousands of fans lined the sidewalks of Bedford-Stuyvesant, the artist's childhood neighborhood, to catch a glimpse of his funeral procession. But the gloomy atmosphere turned violent when police scuffled with a handful of people who had climbed onto parked cars. Seven people were arrested for disorderly conduct, including a reporter for the New York Times.