If you're interested, it's coming out moderately nationwide on Nov.14
Here's the first trailer for it: http://movies.yahoo.com/shop?d=hv&cf=trail...8412300&intl=us
I don't know if there's enough of a fan-base to make it a blockbuster type movie, but still definitely worth a watch... It's mostly composed of old interviews, poems, and rare photo's/videos from the vaults.. supposedly some unseen stuff too.. and they conducted it in such a manner that he would sorta narrate the movie, and take us through his life...

I'm just astonished that a documentary of this manner would be a nationwide release, that is very rare in itself..

 

I saw the preview a few weeks ago at Underworld... my first reaction was knowing you were going to post about it.... frankly he's just a member of Digital Underground to me... and Biggie was GOD. Don't take offense. I will probably see the movie. I am somewhat interested........

 

Likewise I am surprised to see a movie being made.... it is pretty amazing how much of an influence Hip-Hop has had in the last 10 years.... I am an original Hip- Hop Vinyl DJ and would personally love to see a documentray about NWA. (Dre, Cube, Easy E)....that would be amazing....

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by MistaSnipes
I saw the preview a few weeks ago at Underworld... my first reaction was knowing you were going to post about it.... frankly he's just a member of Digital Underground to me... and Biggie was GOD.

 

Like legends such as "2pac" & Eminem, Biggie rose to the top quickly and had a hit album with hit singles... Imagine if he was still around - the collaborations that he could have made with today's hottest..... he was up & coming. Take it from a DJ who saw him live at Madison Square Garden. His lyrics are "UNBELIEVABLE". And he never blamed the white man for anything and never got all political - he was about the music and the women..... an entertainer..... BTW .... no offense... just voicing my opinion...

 

hehe, none taken... Pac sorta blaimed the white man early in his career, but when your mother is a black panther, and your father figures are political prisoners, he had initially a lot of anger toward the white man, which was represented in his music, but only early on.. Most of that descent went to the white policeman, the white judge, the white politicians... Eventually though his mentality changed, as he said, half his fans are white, and I think he grew to accept his position toward all races..

In regards to Biggie, he was one of the illest MC's ever, you're from New York, so there's probably even more exposure to hip-hop than here.. but he would have been nothing without Pac, he was successful because Pac brought him into the game, kind of took him under his wing early on, he was successful because Pac and Biggie had their drama and their beef, which sold records, but he was nothing without Pac. If he wasn't associated with Pac, he wouldn't have been as big (no pun intended)

That said, his lyrics are Unbelievable, he's a true MC... It's like Talib Kweli right now or Big L a few years ago (arguably one of the greatest of all time), another Brooklyn MC, he was one of the best lyricists in the game, but he just didn't have the exposure that B.I.G. had at the time... and Biggie's albums and songs would have been even better without Puffy in the background of all his music

However, I still give Pac the nod due to his dimension if we were to do a comparison, he just has a way of relating to everyone, it's like when it comes from his mouth, it really means something, if you know what I mean...

 

i like em both.

 

 

This would be an interesting movie to see from a moviemaker's perspective (I do indie movie stuff for fun on the side). On a slightly off topic note, I've never fully been a fan of hip-hop, but a recent group is changing my mind on that, that group being Black Eyed Peas. I would like the stance of the hip-hip experts in this thread about them

 

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