SANDI DENTON of the group "Salt N' Pepa" stands outside the Frank E. Campbell Funeral Home in New York, Tuesday, March 18, 1997, following the funeral for rapper Notorious B.I.G. The Brooklyn-born ''gangsta'', whose given name was Christopher Wallace but who also went by the stage name Biggie Smalls, was gunned down nine days ago in a still-unsolved Los Angeles drive-by shooting.

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