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Notorious B.I.G. is going to be posthumously awarded with one of ASCAP’s highest honors!

During the annual ASCAP Rhythm & Soul Music Awards, the late rapper is set to receive the Founders Award.

“Biggie was a legend in his own time and his legacy lives on through his music. Like all songwriters, he was a master storyteller, but it was the realism in his rhymes that captured so many,” ASCAP President Paul Williams said in a statement.

Past winners of the award include Stevie Wonder, Paul McCartney, Carly Simon, Patti Smith and Quincy Jones.

There ceremony is set to take place on June 22nd in Los Angeles.

Diddy hits the stage to pay tribute to the late Notorious B.I.G. during the 2017 Billboard Music Awards held at the T-Mobile Arena on Sunday (May 21) in Las Vegas.

The 47-year-old rapper and business mogul brought B.I.G.‘s son CJ Wallace to mark a special occasion – today would have been the rapper’s 45th birthday.

“I know my father is looking down on all of us tonight,” CJ said during the speech. “And all of this love and support, my sister and I carry on his name with tremendous pride, and live my life by his words.”

Diddy also debuted the trailer for the new documentary Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop: The Bad Boy Story, which tells the story of Bad Boy Entertainment and Biggie’s murder.

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