Profile
Big Pun
Rapper
Male
Born
Nov 10, 1971
Hometown
New York City
Died
Jul 2, 2000
Death Place
White Plains, New...
Genres
Hardcore hip hop ...
Performed With
Chastain Apocalyp...
Record Label
Loud Records
Christopher Lee Rios, better known by his stage name Big Pun (short for Big Punisher), was a Puerto-Rican American rapper who emerged from the underground rap scene in The Bronx in the late 1990s. He first appeared on albums from The Beatnuts, on the… Read More
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Timeline
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CHILDHOOD
1971
Birth
Born in 1971.
TWENTIES
1992
21 Years Old
Rios met fellow Puerto Rican and Bronx rapper Fat Joe in 1992 and made his commercial debut on Joe's second album, Jealous One's Envy, in addition to appearing on a b-side to Joe's "Envy" single, "Fire Water."
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1998
27 Years Old
The full-length debut Capital Punishment followed in 1998, and became the first album by a solo Latino rapper to go platinum, peaking at #5 on the Billboard 200.
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1999
28 Years Old
Big Pun became a member of Terror Squad, a New York-based group of rappers founded by Fat Joe, with most of the roster supplied by the now-defunct Full a Clips Crew who released their debut album The Album in 1999.
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On February 7, 2000, Big Pun suffered a fatal heart attack and respiratory failure while temporarily staying with family at a Crowne Plaza Hotel in White Plains, New York during a home renovation.
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