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Meta has announced a VR Notorious B.I.G. concert.

The precocious hip-hop icon's property has teamed up with the tech elephantine connected 'Sky’s the Limit', which volition beryllium shown connected Meta's Horizon Worlds VR level and Facebook connected December 16.

Biggie was killed successful a drive-by shooting successful March 1997, aged 24.

The 'Hypnotize' rapper's avatar volition execute and instrumentality viewers connected a "narrative journey” of the Brooklyn star's life.

Music writer Touré volition dependable Biggie.

On what would person been Biggie's 50th day connected May 21, the Empire State Building changed its lights’ colour to reddish and white, with a crown spinning connected its mast to honour the iconic star.

A peculiar memorial ceremonial was besides held astatine the New York landmark and attended by a big of friends and collaborators - including Lil Kim, Lil’ Cease and Voletta Wallace, the rapper's mother.

In Brooklyn, the Barclays Center paid homage to Biggie's beingness by featuring a video montage of his records connected the show supra the arena’s entrance.

What's more, New York City's nationalist proscription bureau enactment retired a peculiar variation MetroCard connected May 21 that featured the 'Juicy' hitmaker.

Biggie - whose existent sanction was Christopher Wallace - roseate to stardom alongside Sean 'Diddy' Combs successful the aboriginal 90s.

And Diddy antecedently admitted that "the money, the fame [and] the success" mislaid each meaning for him pursuing the decease of his bully friend.

He shared: "It made maine admit life, and it made maine privation to ... bash things for the greater good."