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The "One-Room-Shack" The Notorious B.I.G. Grew Up In Now Rents For a Fortune

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"Thinkin' back on my one-room shack/Now my mom pimps an Ac' with minks on her back," The Notorious B.I.G. rapped on his hit "Juicy".

The shack he spoke of was the third floor of 226 St. James Place in the Clinton Hill section of Brooklyn. When Big was coming up, it was a crime-plagued neighboorhood. Now it's been gentrified, and the folks who own 226 St. James Place are trying to rent it out for $4000 a month.

The New York Post reports:

“The neighborhood is all hipsters and millennials,” said Kathleen Perkins, a Douglas Elliman broker. “People in finance and tech people.”

The Biggie home — which still has intricate and historic details from when the slain rapper lived there, including the same windows and moldings — wound up selling in 2013 for a whopping $825,000 to the person who’s now trying to rent it out. It comes with a den and separate dining room, along with hardwood floors and high ceilings.

“It’s so calm and residential now,” Lecole said. “It’s hard to imagine it’s the same street that he sang about with all the drugs and gunfire. It couldn’t be more different.”

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