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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 It's 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 there's hope," Biggie's mother Voletta Wallace tells EW exclusively while promoting the Netflix documentary Biggie: I Have a Story ...

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 Malloy's Netflix documentary is the latest attempt to tell the Notorious B.I.G.'s story with the authorization of Christopher Wallace's estate. It's hard to do a convincing warts-and-all portrait when your subject built a livelihood celebrating their warts and even harder when you're determined to treat those warts as pimples. That's the challenge facing director Emmett Malloy with the new Netflix documentary Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell. This latest attempt to do a revealing, yet authorized depiction of the life o...

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 at each other like, ‘Oh shit, she just threw it away.’ We pulled it out of the garbage can with ...

Skip to main content Currently Reading 'Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell' Review: The Notorious B.I.G's 'Origin Story' Focuses on Pre-Hurrah Hustle 'Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell' Review: The Notorious B.I.G's 'Origin Story' Focuses on Pre-Hurrah Hustle A Netflix documentary is bold enough to believe that Biggie's 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