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New Notorious B.I.G. Doc Follows Rapper's Rise

The first authorized documentary of Christopher Wallace is a portrait of a hip-hop master but also of a place called Brooklyn.
Voletta Wallace, mother of the late Christopher Wallace aka The Notorious B.I.G. pulling up in front of the "King of NY" mural located in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn during the filming of "Biggie: The Life of Notorious B.I.G."
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A couple of summers ago, “Juicy,” by the rapper Notorious B.I.G., was booming from every bar in Brooklyn. Biggie Smalls, rapping about “sippin’ on private stock,” while pallid hipsters in designer T-shirts ordered $8 pilsners brewed in Queens. The frequency with which his most famous song played seemed to increase as one got closer to the intersection of Fulton Street and St. James Place in the now-fashionable neighborhood of Clinton Hill, where a single mother raised the man born Christopher

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