![]() ![]() ![]() The flattened narrative of East Coast versus West Coast rap has served, mostly, to obscure the man Biggie was. Biggie’s story is one that’s been told, retold, and repackaged as a part of our cultural imagination, a straight line from “Big Poppa” to beefing with Tupac to his eventual murder in 1997. By now, grainy archival footage is a hallmark of the growing genre of music documentary, but here it serves a more imperative function. The resulting footage is electric - a preserved vision of a hip-hop golden era, shown from the vantage point of one of its most culturally influential stars. ![]() Early on in the documentary, his longtime friend Damion “D-Roc” Butler explains how Biggie instructed him to capture the audiences at their concerts. The late New York MC, who is the subject of a new Netflix documentary titled Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell, was an eager evangelist of the humble camcorder. One wonders what Notorious B.I.G would have thought about smartphones.
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