A plastic crown decorated with plastic "jewels", which was later depicted in portraits of the rapper Notorious BIG, sold at Sotheby's auction in New York for $594,750. It was expected that the crown would be bought for 200-300 thousand. dollars
The plastic crown, along with the other 120 items put up for auction, represented "the history of rap and its influence on world culture," according to Sotheby's. The following were also sold at the auction: a drum set by musician Questlove (30,240), a diamond-encrusted blindfold by rapper Slick Rick (25,200), a collection of letters from Tupac Shakur to a fellow student from the Baltimore School of Art (75,600) and a wall of boomboxes by DJ Ross One (113). .
On March 6, 1997, Notorious BIG (Christopher George Lator Wallace) in a plastic crown portrayed the "King of New York" at a photo shoot organized by photographer Barron Claiborne. Three days later, on March 9, he was killed in Los Angeles by unknown persons. The rapper was only 24 years old. The crime has not been solved to this day.
It is worth noting that Notorious BIG is considered one of the best performers in the history of the genre. In turn, the frame with the crown became the most recognizable photo of the rapper.
