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The film is a flashback, narrated by the dead man, Christopher Wallace - aka Biggie Smalls, aka The Notorious B.I.G.

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Notorious is pretty positive for a movie that opens with its 24-year-old hero declaring he's about to change the world - and then getting shot in the head. Street sense: Damion 'D-Roc' Butler (Dennis White) and Biggie Smalls (Jamal Woolard) made the gritty glamorous, and profitable. So far, however, this is one movie without a Hollywood ending. to demand that his murder be solved,' Coker says.

'I hope, if anything, this movie spurs interest. Notorious doesn't ignore the grittier aspects of Wallace's 24 years, but it does emphasize the positive perspective of family, friends and fans, many of whom are still waiting for an answer to his murder. to promote and work on his music, and to attempt to ease tensions between the East and West Coasts. In 1996, Shakur was shot again, fatally this time, in Las Vegas. Shakur claimed that members of Wallace's camp were involved. was East Coast tradition.īut when Shakur was robbed and shot at a New York recording studio in 1994, the competition, which had primarily focused on record sales, took a menacing turn. Tupac Shakur represented the wild West Coast sound B.I.G. It was initially a war of words and styles. formula of wit and verve, combining champagne wishes and caviar dreams.ī.I.G.'s celebrity in the mid-'90s came with what the rapper called 'Mo' money/mo' problems.' His career peaked at the height of what Bythewood calls the 'media-induced 'East Coast-West Coast war'' between East Coast rappers and West Coast rappers. Wallace's influence echoes in the work of pop stars like Sean 'Diddy' Combs - his former producer - and Jay-Z, a fellow Brooklynite who's carried on the B.I.G. He put a mark on it, and a certain signature, that is just indelible.' 'He's relevant to hip-hop in the same way that Charlie Parker or John Coltrane is relevant to jazz,' Coker says. I'm ugly as hell - but I got Gucci to the socks.''įor Coker, lyrics like that one - Blakley was paraphrasing from Biggie's radio remix of 'One More Chance' - are what continue to distinguish him from other rap stars. He even says, 'I'm ugly, but women still love me. 'He wasn't just a hardcore rapper,' says Marlon Blakley. city bus near the scene of Wallace's murder. On a recent afternoon, a longtime Biggie fan steps off an L.A.

and then right at the moment he gets it all together it gets snatched away?' he asks.Ī Singular Style, And A Lasting Influence a drug dealer, almost by accident become a rap legend, go through all the trials and tribulations of being a superstar. 'How does a Catholic school kid who's a straight-A student become, you know. Like many others, Coker is still affected by Wallace's death. Perhaps unsurprisingly for a film co-produced by the subject's friends, his business associates and his mother, Notorious portrays Wallace as a complicated character: a young Brooklyn hustler, then a budding rap star, then a bona fide national celebrity who was always loyal to his mom.īythewood's co-writer, Cheo Hodari Coker, followed the rapper's rise, reported on his murder for the Los Angeles Times, and was the last journalist to interview him at length. In the hip-hop universe, says Notorious screenwriter Reggie Rock Bythewood, 'it really was like the shot that was heard around the world.'įrom Catholic School To Chart-Topping Star

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In 1997, Wallace was leaving a party at L.A.'s Petersen Automotive Museum, near the intersection of Wilshire Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue, when the driver of a Chevy Impala pulled alongside the rapper's convoy, pulled out a pistol and fired. has inspired a feature film.Ī new biopic about the life and early death of a multiplatinum rap star revives the story behind one of Los Angeles' most famous unsolved murders: Notorious is the saga of Christopher Wallace - the man who'd make his name as the Notorious B.I.G. The brief but remarkable life of the Notorious B.I.G.

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