Gentrified Brooklyn Neighborhood Rejects Plan To Honor Notorious B.I.G. With Street Name Change

Here's your daily reminder that white people can just be the worst sometimes. After an online petition to rename the Clinton Hill, Brooklyn corner of St. James Place and Fulton Street "Christopher Wallace Way" for slain rapper Notorious B.I.G. (who lived on the block with his mother) gained serious traction, the community board shut the idea down. 

Their reasoning? The G.O.A.T. rap contender who lived in the neighborhood had an arrest record, sold drugs and was overweight.

Heavens to Betsy! 

"He started selling drugs at 12, he was a school dropout at 17, he was arrested for drugs and weapons charge, he was arrested for parole violations, he was arrested in North Carolina for crack cocaine, in 1996 he was again arrested for assault, he had a violent death and physically the man is not exactly a role model for youth. I don't see how this guy was a role model, and frankly, it offends me,"  said Board Member Lucy Koteen.

That's right. The man who is more associated with Brooklyn than any other artist in the history of modern music is too rough to name a street corner after. Being associated with a man whose "B.I.G. Night Ou"t dinner helps raise funds for local schoolchildren is too much because of his troubled past as a member of a former Brooklyn that wasn't as squeaky clean as it is now.

Ugh...the worst.