The Notorious B.I.G.'s Publishing Rights Selling for $100 Million

The Infamous B.I.G.’s publishing and publicity rights are reportedly near being offered for the asking value of $100 million to $150 million.

Biggie’s Publishing Rights Command Large Payday

On Friday (Feb. 28), The Hollywood Reporter named music publishing firm Main Wave as the potential purchaser. The rapper’s transient catalog is up for $100 million, as are his grasp rights, that are commanding a further $30 million to $50 million. In keeping with sources, the deal will embody 50 p.c of each the late rapper’s publishing and grasp rights, with the addition of publicity rights, which embody picture, voice and different identifiable traits like standout music lyrics. The deal will reportedly shut within the subsequent few weeks.

Main Wave’s roster of late entertainer catalogs consists of Bob Marley, Whitney Houston, Luther Vandross and others.

XXL has reached out to Main Wave and Biggie’s property for remark.

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Sale Follows Dying of Voletta Wallace

The pending sale comes only a week after Biggie’s mom, Voletta Wallace, died on the age of 78. Biggie’s mother handed away on Feb. 21 in Stroudsburg, Pa. Monroe County Coroner, Thomas Yanac, confirmed to XXL that Wallace had been in hospice care main as much as her demise. She died of pure causes.

Earlier to her demise, Ms. Wallace ran the Brooklyn, N.Y. rapper’s property following his homicide in 1997. In 2011, she signed a licensing take care of Model Sense Companions to handle licensing and merchandising for the Brooklyn native’s title and likeness. By way of her enterprise strikes, she helped increase Biggie’s property’s estimated price from $10 million to $160 million, in keeping with TMZ.

Biggie’s property is at the moment being represented by Mark Pitts and Wayne Barrow of ByStorm Leisure.