Biggie I Got A Story To Tell Full Documentary
Diddy, Notorious BIG's mother and others discuss dark rumors and trace the rapper's rise to fame in this important documentary
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Perhaps posthumous legacy was always on the mind of the late rapper Christopher "Notorious BIG" Wallace. His hard-hitting debut album Ready to Die was followed by Life After Death, released 16 days after he was killed at the age of 24 in a still unsolved drive-by shooting. Yet while there have been several cinematic attempts to capture this legacy - including Nick Broomfield's 2002 documentary Biggie & Tupac and the 2009 biopic Notorious - this Netflix version is the first to successfully avoid the quicksand of the murder mystery and instead focus on what Wallace accomplished in life.
Biggie I Got A Story To Tell Full Documentary
Clearly, restoring that balance was the motivation of at least two executive producers, including Wallace's label boss and friend Sean "Diddy" Combs, who states early on, "This story doesn't need to have a tragic ending." It's Wallace's mother's contribution, however, that is particularly important. First in the form of family photos and stories illustrating a childhood spent between their Brooklyn neighborhood in Bedford-Stuyvesant and her family's home in Trelawny, Jamaica. There, young Wallace's favorite uncle exposed him to sound system culture, while in Brooklyn, a neighboring jazz musician played Max Roach and Clifford Brown. By the time a 17-year-old Biggie triumphed in the now-legendary rap battle over Bedford and Quincy, he was already "rhyming in a way that exudes all the finer qualities of a bebop drum solo.
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More subtly, however, Ms. Wallace's involvement allows loyal associates to open up about the "gangster" part of the "gangster rapper." The darker rumors are omitted, but there is a detailed account of how Biggie came to dominate the local crack economy. These specifics of mid-90s, northwest Brooklyn are fascinating and relevant; to Biggie's art, certainly, but perhaps also to his death.
