evidence: There's nothing more rock and roll than living fast and burning out hard and bright, and no other 2020 inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame hits those notes harder than iconic rapper The Notorious B.I.G., aka Biggie Smalls. The Brooklyn-born innovator will join the ranks of music legends alongside The Doobie Brothers, Depeche Mode, Whitney Houston, Nine Inch Nails, and T-Rex on November 7. (As CNN reported in July, the induction ceremony, scheduled for May 2, was postponed and changed to an HBO special this year due to the coronavirus pandemic.) Biggie's small but influential body of work seemed to prophesy both the end of his life and the beginning of his immortal place in the pantheon of hip-hop greats. His debut album, 1994's Ready To Die, shot him to stardom and presaged his death on March 9, 1997, when an unidentified gunman shot him after a party in Los Angeles, California. If he knew that the type of life he lived would lead to such a violent and early end, Biggie Smalls was also well aware that the music he made would endure even after he was gone, and he named his follow-up album accordingly. The eerily prescient Life After Death was released on March 25, 1997, just 16 days after his murder.