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Big Hawk

Big Hawk (John Edward Hawkins, 1969-2006) was a Houston rapper, Screwed Up Click original, and brother of Fat Pat; his albums include Under Hawk's Wings and HAWK, and his 2006 murder remains unsolved.

Big Head Todd and the Monsters

Big Head Todd and the Monsters, also BHTM, is a rock band formed in 1986 in Boulder, Colorado, by Todd Park Mohr, Rob Squires, and Brian Nevin. Known for the platinum 1993 album Sister Sweetly, recorded at Paisley Park, 35 Red Rocks headlining shows, and 2023 Colorado Music Hall of Fame induction.

Big Hero 6 (comics)

Big Hero 6 is a Marvel Comics superhero team created by Steven T. Seagle and Duncan Rouleau, debuting in 1998 as Japan's government-sanctioned team (Silver Samurai, Sunfire, Hiro Takachiho, Baymax, Honey Lemon, Go-Go Tomago), later rebooted in 2008 and adapted into Disney's 2014 animated film.

Big Hero 6 (film)

Big Hero 6 is a 2014 Disney animated film about Hiro Hamada and his robot Baymax, and it won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.

Big Hero 6: The Series

Big Hero 6: The Series, also known as Big Hero 6 The Series, is a Disney Television Animation 2D animated sequel series to the 2014 film, running 2017-2021 for three seasons with Kim Possible creators as executive producers.

Big Hit Music

Big Hit Music (빅히트 뮤직, BIGHIT MUSIC) is the South Korean label founded by Bang Si-hyuk in 2005 as Big Hit Entertainment. Reorganized in 2021 as a wholly owned HYBE subsidiary, it manages BTS, TOMORROW X TOGETHER, Lee Hyun, and CORTIS.

Big House Blues

Big House Blues (1990) is the Spümcø pilot short of The Ren & Stimpy Show, directed by John Kricfalusi: Ren and Stimpy land in the pound, fear the 'big sleep', and are adopted; aired on Nickelodeon September 15, 1991.

Big Ideas (album)

Big Ideas is Remi Wolf's second studio album, released 12 July 2024 on Island Records; distinct from LCD Soundsystem's 2008 single and Radiohead's working title. Recorded mainly at Electric Lady Studios, it scored 80 on Metacritic.

Big in Japan (Alphaville song)

"Big in Japan" is a 1984 song by the German synth-pop band Alphaville that reached number one in Germany and the top ten in the UK.

Big Iron

Big Iron is a 1959 Western ballad written and performed by Marty Robbins on Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs, telling of an Arizona Ranger who outdraws outlaw Texas Red in Agua Fria; a 1960 country Top Ten hit later popularized by Fallout: New Vegas.

Big Jake

Big Jake is a 1971 American Western directed by George Sherman, starring John Wayne as Jacob "Big Jake" McCandles, who rides out with his sons to rescue his kidnapped grandson from the Fain Gang.

Big Jay Oakerson

Big Jay Oakerson (Jason Michael Oakerson, born 1977, Philadelphia) is an American stand-up comedian known for crowd work, specials Live at Webster Hall, Dog Belly, and Them/They, The Bonfire on SiriusXM, and Legion of Skanks.

Big K.R.I.T.

Big K.R.I.T. (Justin Lewis Scott, born 1986, Meridian, Mississippi) is an American rapper and producer; K.R.I.T. means King Remembered In Time. Def Jam Top Ten albums Live from the Underground and Cadillactica, then independent on his Multi Alumni label.

Big L

Big L (Lamont Coleman, 1974-1999) was a Harlem rapper and D.I.T.C. member whose debut Lifestylez Ov Da Poor & Dangerous (1995) and single "Ebonics" made him a revered East Coast lyricist.

Big Li, Little Li and Old Li

Big Li, Little Li and Old Li (大李小李和老李), a 1962 Shanghai sports comedy directed by Xie Jin at Tianma Film Studio, his only comedy, about three workers named Li at a meat plant embracing calisthenics, restored with Shanghainese dubbing in 2018.

Big Little Lies (novel)

Big Little Lies is Liane Moriarty's 2014 sixth novel, a murder mystery about three mothers at Pirriwee Public School on Sydney's northern beaches; it debuted at No. 1 on the NYT list and inspired HBO's Emmy-winning 2017 series.

Big Little Lies (TV series)

Big Little Lies, HBO drama series created by David E. Kelley from Liane Moriarty's novel, following the Monterey Five mothers in Monterey, California; two seven-episode seasons (2017, 2019), Emmy-winning limited series, with season 3 in development based on Big Little Truths.

Big Love

Big Love is an HBO drama (2006-2011), created by Mark V. Olsen and Will Scheffer, about polygamist Bill Henrickson (Bill Paxton) and his three wives in suburban Utah, versus the Juniper Creek compound.

Big Lurch

Big Lurch, stage name of Antron Singleton, is a Dallas-born rapper and former Cosmic Slop Shop member, sentenced in 2003 to life without parole for murdering roommate Tynisha Ysais in Los Angeles in April 2002, with allegations of cannibalism while on PCP.

Big Mac

The Big Mac (ビッグマック) is McDonald's double-decker hamburger, invented by franchisee Jim Delligatti in Uniontown, Pennsylvania in 1967 and rolled out nationally in 1968; 580 US calories, source of The Economist's Big Mac index, and basis of the Mega Mac and Chicken Big Mac variants.

Big Machine Records

Big Machine Records is an American independent record label in Nashville, Tennessee, founded by Scott Borchetta in 2005 and best known as Taylor Swift's original label.

Big Mama (group)

Big Mama (빅마마) is a South Korean four-woman vocal group known for powerful live singing, which debuted in 2003 under YG's M-Boat label and reunited in 2021.

Big Mama Thornton

Big Mama Thornton (Willie Mae Thornton, 1926-1984) was an Alabama-born blues singer who first recorded "Hound Dog" in 1952 and wrote "Ball and Chain," later hits for Elvis Presley and Janis Joplin; she earned $500 for "Hound Dog" and entered the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2024.

Big Miracle

Big Miracle is a 2012 Ken Kwapis drama starring Drew Barrymore and John Krasinski, based on Tom Rose's book about the 1988 Operation Breakthrough rescue of three ice-trapped gray whales near Barrow, Alaska, involving Soviet icebreakers; not to be confused with the TV series Big Miracles.

Big Modern!

Big Modern! (BIG MODERN!) is the sixth studio album by Connecticut jam band Goose, released June 12, 2026 on No Coincidence Records: 15 tracks, 69 minutes, produced by D. James Goodwin, with an 1980s synth-pop sound about digital overstimulation.

Big Momma's House

Big Momma's House is a 2000 Raja Gosnell comedy starring Martin Lawrence as an FBI agent disguised as a Southern grandmother to protect a witness. It grossed $117.6M in the US but scored 33 on Metacritic and 31% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Big Momma's House 2

Big Momma's House 2 is a 2006 American comedy film directed by John Whitesell, starring Martin Lawrence as FBI agent Malcolm Turner undercover as Big Momma.

Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son

Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son, also known as Big Momma's House 3, is a 2011 American action comedy starring Martin Lawrence as FBI agent Malcolm Turner.

Big Mountain Music Festival

The Big Mountain Music Festival (BMMF, Thai: บิ๊กเมาน์เท่น มิวสิค เฟสติวัล) is Thailand's largest homegrown two-day outdoor music festival, mixing Thai pop, rock, luk thung, and molam, held near Khao Yai since 2010.

Big Mouth (American TV series)

Big Mouth is a Netflix adult animated sitcom created by Nick Kroll, Andrew Goldberg, Mark Levin, and Jennifer Flackett about puberty, Hormone Monsters, and teenage friends; ordered 2016, eight seasons, ended May 23, 2025, with spin-off Human Resources.