I could never pretend to have been a lifelong hip-hop fan or anything but I do remember the deaths of Tupac and Biggie. Pac I had heard of - Biggie I hadn't. I was in high school and reasonably intrigued but not enough to do any reading on the subject.
My best friend talked about these guys like they were Elvis, John Lennon, James Dean and Ghandi put together. Still, interesting but not getting me to turn off an episode of M*A*S*H I've seen a hundred times. Not back then anyways. Recently I've become more interested in rap. I'll never be a fanatic but some of it is a lot of fun.
But the story of a farm kid growing up and writing songs and getting married does not make a movie. A drug dealer from the ghetto who grows up to take over the world with his music - that's a little more appealing. So, I wanted this movie to be good - to be informative - to show me why Biggie Smalls was The Man.
If you wanna hear how his mom's breast cancer scare affected him you don't have to devote any more than 3.2 seconds to finding out. After being caught committing
In this movie, however, he's Obi Wan Kenobi, always there by Biggie's side with a ready bit of Urban Wisdom - or the music and editing lead you to believe that someone somewhere thinks its wisdom - if you listen it's actually pretty not at all valuable to anyone in any walk of life. I wondered what was up with this - and then the credits showed: Executive Producer - Sean Combs. Wow.
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