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The Last Mr. Bigg
12+ albums
rapGangsta RapBigGHip-Hop
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Bigg, whose real name was Donald Maurice Pears, II, spent most of his formative years growing up in California's San Francisco Bay Area with his mother. He spent his summers with his father in a money green house in the Maysville community of Mobile on the 1800 block of Kibby Street. Living in the projects of Oakland, San Francisco and Richmond, Pears took to inner city crime at an early age. Prone to trouble at home and school, his teenage years proved to be too much on his mother. "He was about 15 when momma was like, 'You know what, enough is enough. You gotta go back to your daddy,'" Nneka (pronounced like Nicky) Pears, Pears' sister, says. "There were things going on that no matter how much my mother said, 'Get in the house,' no matter how much she said, 'Stay away from this crowd,' we were in the middle of trouble." Pears' reputation preceded him once he arrived in Mobile for good. And his infatuation with street crime only festered in new surroundings. Interestingly, his father, Donald Pears, Sr., enjoyed a tenured career with the Mobile Police Department. "(We all asked), 'How in the hell, do you do this when this is your dad? Your dad is someone who is really looked up to in the community.' But he had his own way of living and his own way of thinking," Nneka Pears says. "No matter what my daddy said to him, no matter how many whoopings he got, Maurice had his own mind. Maurice wanted to do what he wanted to do. And he did it." Becoming Bigg Pears' love for mu
