Netflix - Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell (Discussion Thread)

[ISO]

Brehs, really?? We gon act like "Respect" doesn't exist on Ready to Die



or that one of the VERY FIRST FEATURES he had was with Super Cat on "Dolly my baby" remix





but either way, to his defense, he would've gotten on some jamaican production later on in his career, gotta realize he was still brand new in the game

I mean what do nikkas expect he was a rapper not a dancehall or reggae artist

 

[Roovers410]

Gonna watch the 9th on biggie day...

 

[Deltron]

this was cool, the new footage is nice, as is some of the info on some of the people in his life like O.

man he really made this shyt look effortless

 

[Trav]

It’s funny because in the doc he mentions he was making 10K a show, doing 4 shows a week. Basically 40K a week/160,000 a month, and that was 1995. Which is great money, especially for that time period. However, If Biggie had come out now and was as popular as he was in 1995, he’d be making 100K a show easily now.

This first time they really for in-depth about Biggie’s friend O. His death was crazy. They didn’t really delve too much into I’m the details around it.

That shyt wild. Uncle popped the nephew over street politics I assume.

 

[FreshAIG]

That shyt wild. Uncle popped the nephew over street politics I assume.

Yep. He popped his nephew then the store employee popped him. Crazy

Brooklyn Ambush Kills 2, Injures 4 (Published 1992)

Daily News article from June 1992

Two people were killed and four others wounded yesterday morning in an ambush in a Brooklyn bodega, when a man strolled into the store and without a word pulled out a semiautomatic handgun and opened fire, the police said.

The shooting at the bodega began just after 11 A.M., detectives said, when the gunman entered the store and opened fire with a 9-millimeter semiautomatic. A store employee grabbed the owner's licensed .357 revolver and shot back, said Lieut. Eugene T. Albright, commander of the 73d Precinct detective squad.

Detectives said they believed that the two dead men were the intended victims, shot over a drug-related quarrel.

Carl Bazemore, 33 years old, of 430 Saratoga Avenue, was shot in the back. His nephew, Roland Young, of 30 Carver Place, who was in his 20's, was shot in the stomach. Both died in the bodega. Detectives said Mr. Bazemore was a mid-level crack dealer in the neighborhood.

Hashon Bullock, 16, of 1786 Prospect Place, was shot in the arm and stomach and was in serious condition yesterday at Kings County Hospital. Police said they thought he might have been the gunman. Ali Best, 34, also of 1786 Prospect Place, was shot in the back and was in serious condition at Kings County Hospital. An unidentified 53-year-old unidentified woman who was in the store was shot in the buttocks.

 

[Piff Perkins]

Yep. He popped his nephew then the store employee popped him. Crazy

Brooklyn Ambush Kills 2, Injures 4 (Published 1992)

Daily News article from June 1992

Also pretty wild that the breh who was interviewed straight up said it was a matter of principle. Really makes you wonder what it was all about.

 

[Offthegrid]

i always heard toine was a real one, used to love him on boston with mercer and billups, that's great he came back to the hood and fukked with yall. that chi town love right there. but yeah you're right man, that guidance from the OG's is something missing man. you could tell it wasn't just rap with mo bee, because he was concerned about all the young'ns in junior mafia too

i gained a whole lot of respect for mo bee in this documentary & like damn we finally get a documentary/film period about biggie that measures up to his greatness. all the stories were great and not the gossipy bullshyt. also it was a good look that they spoke to matty c and put him in this documentary because him and biggie were mad close. i mean real close. matty actually tried to introduce me to big a few times but he was never in the hood when we went. i saw big a few times at lyricist lounge with puff & busta, the muse with crustified dibbs, and even at the tunnel with kim and junior mafia.. but i wasn't just gonna run up on son on some dikkriding shyt like, yo big i know ya man matty c! lol he'd be like so what a lot of nikkas know matty who the fukk is you? lol so i never got to really speak to him, sad because it would have meant a lot to me

netflix is wild trash but every now and then they come with something epic. who killed malcolm x, quincy jones doc, and now this. biggie was done properly with this one. i wanna watch it again this weekend with my uncle

All of the og nba players during dat time was more approachable u could really get mentor advice n guidance. U had to be sumbody with a name n potential to be close to mj. Tony allen is from my hood his lil bro n i grew up together n played ball together. Kg always gave back to the westside as well. The 90s n early 00s was carefree time period to soak up alot of game. But yall nyc guys was blessed to witness the golden era of hiphop all we had in chi in early mid 90s was twista crucial conflict do or die da barat n common. I would say jason weaver but he from south suburbs we aint really see him in the city til the jackson 5 mini series n lion king. Ik the vibes was amazing durin nyc in the 90s yall had hip hop,streetball legends, high school n big east conference legends. Was u ever around on the block when ever pac slid on biggie in bk?

 

[the cool]

This documentary was all over the place.

 

[mson]

 

[patscorpio]

this was dope...very nostalgic..i like that we saw more of big's family members...his grandmother is still alive...what a blessing

 

[Cadillac]

You keep talking about this one interview. Why??? Are you saying he hadn't blamed BIG all over media before that??? So you're saying his blaming BIG is something I made up? Lil boy go play somewhere.

Your an idiot .... pac dragged biggie though the mud the whole time he was out ov prison that is a fact ......and guess what biggie had 0 involoved and had no knowledge ov it .... but did pac clear the tension and clear it up no ... he kept running with that story .... sucka shyt .....u can idioilize pac all u want but the nikka was saving face the whole time after quad .......

read what I said in prior post you fukkin idiots. it was not blamming Biggie for setting him up. i already addressed that

now, can either of you numbskull ass nikkas show me in that interview where he blamed big? the reason yall cant do that because it doesnt add up with the story of events and narratives yall have in your head.

 

[HARLEM AL]

This one was dope. Probably the best one I’ve ever seen.

 

[HARLEM AL]

Reading some of this thread....... There's a reason I’m glad the never mention 2pac.

You fukking 2pac fans are the worst with the revisionist shyt. That nikka knew who shot him and why he got shot. He still blamed big for that.

 

[ML29]

Placing so much focus on his upbringing and roots really helped makes this documentary feel Necessary.

 

[DANJ!]

Watched it tonight. It’s a very well done documentary and the story pacing is very good initially. Similar to the Illmatic doc and some other rap docs it feels like it starts speeding up at a point. Like they decided it was gonna be 90 minutes and nothing could change that. This could and should have been two hours IMO, maybe a bit more.

And while I respect the fact that it focuses on Big instead of the beef, the way they cover it feels biased. Like Pac was some random occurrence of fukkery. Should it have gotten into the politics of Quad, Who Shot Ya etc? No. But seeing Puff dismiss Pac as “theatrics” doesn’t sit right with me. Nor does Puff saying the Cali trip was Big’s idea. Come on man.

It was theatrics tho'... just looking at it through an adult lens and considering that he knew who was really behind that shyt. All the rest of it was hype. I don't think him being shot and feeling unable to trust anyone was theatrics at all. But it becomes theatrics when you spend a whole year and change hitting every magazine and radio station saying nikkas set you up when you know it wasn't them.