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Deon Taylor and Roxanne Avent Taylor's Hidden Empire Film Group is partnering together with legendary hip-hop mogul Percy Miller for a show on his life.

Print this article “The first five to 10 seconds of it was all really all I needed to hear,” Matteo Capoluongo, founder of the Source magazine, says of his first listen to a Notorious B.I.G. demo tape in Biggie: I Got A Story To Tell, the new Netflix documentary about the late Brooklyn rapper. “I heard it, I was like, what the f***?” recalls Sean Combs, the rapper-turned-businessman who was a talent director at Uptown Records when he heard the then-unknown Christopher Wallace for the...

The Notorious B.I.G. Estate Signs Management Deal With WME Biggie joins the agency’s new Legends group that includes estates for Andy Kaufman, Eartha Kitt and Peter ToshBrian Welk | April 20, 2021 @ 8:00 AM Photo courtesy of the Estate of The Notorious B.I.G. The estate of rapper The Notorious B.I.G. has signed a management deal with WME and the agency’s recently launched Legends group to represent his estate and brand management. The agency partnered with Biggie’s mother, Voletta Wa...

By papa keith Mar 9, 2021 Its been 24 years since the Notorious B.I.G., was shot to death in Los Angeles. "As long as I have life theres hope," Biggies mother Voletta Wallace said about finding justice while promoting the Netflix documentary Biggie: I Have a Story to Tell. "Ill never give up. And I hope when Im not in this world anymore, my friends and family will carry on the fight. There is always hope." The documentary, includes never-before-seen video footage shared by his longtime friend ...

D-Roc & Wayne Barrow Share Rare Biggie Stories, + Talks Lil Kim, Jay-Z, Method Man & Documentary

Image zoom The Notorious B.I.G. will become the seventh hip-hop artist to enter the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame | Credit: Clarence Davis/Getty Images Its been 24 years since Christopher Wallace, known professionally as the Notorious B.I.G., was shot to death in Los Angeles, and his loved ones are no closer to finding justice. "As long as I have life theres hope," Biggies mother Vole...

A new Netflix documentary aims to tell the unheard story of a tragic rapper, focusing on the personal, speaking to those who knew and miss him

Great music, great footage, only occasional insight. TWITTER 3/1/2021 Emmett Malloys Netflix documentary is the latest attempt to tell the Notorious B.I.G.s story with the authorization of Christopher Wallaces estate. Its hard to do a convincing warts-and-all portrait when your subject built a livelihood celebrating their warts and even harder when youre determined to treat those warts as pimples. Thats the challenge facing director Emmett Malloy with the new Netflix documentary Biggie: I Got ...

Ahead of its release, Damian “D-Roc” Butler — the late Hip Hop legend’s friend who was in the car the day he was killed — spoke to Page Sixabout the upcoming film and the time Biggie’s mother Voletta Wallace mistook crack cocaine for mashed potatoes as she was sprucing up his room. “Then we came back in (and) she’d cleaned the room,” Butler said. “She was like, ‘Yo, you can’t leave dirty dishes lying around, hard mashed potatoes on the plate.’ Me and him both looked ...

Skip to main content Currently Reading Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell Review: The Notorious B.I.Gs Origin Story Focuses on Pre-Hurrah Hustle Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell Review: The Notorious B.I.Gs Origin Story Focuses on Pre-Hurrah Hustle A Netflix documentary is bold enough to believe that Biggies transition from teen crack dealer to 90s hip-hop sensation is more interesting than dwelling too much on his tragic end. Chris Willman, provided by