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March 01, 2021

New Biggie documentary focuses on what he accomplished in life

Netflix documentary 'Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell' is "the first to successfully sidestep the quicksand of murder mystery, and focus instead on what Wallace accomplished in life", Guardian writes in a review. Also, "it’s the contribution of Wallace’s mother, though, that’s particularly significant. Firstly in the form of family photos and stories illustrating a childhood spent between their Brooklyn neighbourhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant and her family’s home in Trelawny, Jamaica". And - "there’s a detailed account of how Biggie came to dominate the local crack cocaine economy. These mid-90s, north-west Brooklyn specificities are fascinating and relevant; to Biggie’s art, certainly, but possibly also to his death".