![]() He is sweet-tempered, even after being seduced into the street-corner crack business, but he sounds tough in his rap songs - tough, introspective, autobiographical and a gifted writer. "You too fat, too black and too ugly," a girl tells him. "Notorious" tells us of a bright kid who was abandoned by his father, raised by a mother from Jamaica who laid down the rules and told the kids on the playground he would be famous some day. have focused on the final years of his life. He was born in Brooklyn, loved his mother (a teacher who was studying for a master's degree), got into street-corner drug dealing because he liked the money, performed rap on the street and at 20 was signed by record producer Sean Combs. ![]() The film "Notorious" is more interested in the kid. He was known as the Notorious B.I.G., a man-mountain of rap, but behind the image was Christopher Wallace, an overgrown kid who was trying to grow up and do the right thing. ![]()
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