Biggie Smalls and <em>Casablanca</em>: The Week in Pop-Culture Writing
Highlights from seven days of writing about arts and entertainment
by The Editors
Mar 11, 2017
3 minutes
Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib | “I like that Biggie did not seem to imagine himself a thinner man. I like that he spoke of his bulk, made it a character in his articulation of himself. I like that he didn’t always hide his weight underneath jokes, as the film and television tropes often go. Our bodies, as they are, aren’t flaws. What made the persona that Biggie created so great was that he knew
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