Voletta Wallace, the mother of late rapper Biggie Smalls, is dead at 78. Wallace, who raised her son Christopher Wallace in Brooklyn, died of natural causes Friday in Stroudsburg, Penn., according to the Monroe County Coroner Thomas A. Yanac. She was in hospice care.

Voletta celebrated her late son's legacy as a rapper following his premature death in 1997 Voletta Wallace, the mother of the late rapper Notorious B.I.G., has died. The Monroe County Coroner confirmed with PEOPLE that Voletta,

The Notorious B.I.G.’s mom, Voletta Wallace, has died at age 72. Wallace passed away on Friday morning at home in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, the Monroe County Coroner, Thomas Yanac, confirmed to The Post.