The man who wrote songs with such titles as “Me and My Bitch,” and lyrics like “Niggaz on the corner / I ain’t forget you niggaz / My triple beam niggaz, word up,” is shown listening to Richard Pryor on TV as he says that “nigger” should be dropped from the language. Written by Reggie Rock Bythewood and Cheo Hodari Coker, and directed by George Tillman, Jr., the movie teaches various lessons without saying anything coherent or illuminating. What I got was both conventional and confused-an uneasy mixture of biographical snapshots and ham-handed moralism, arrayed in a dual narrative track in which Biggie (Jamal Woolard) haplessly slides toward death as he slowly, and with many steps backward, rises spiritually toward manhood. What I wanted from the movie was some clarity about Biggie Smalls’s motives and a sense of how much of him was created and how much was genuine. Still, the authenticity issue lingers around hip-hop, which is a cunningly crafted show-business phenomenon as well as an expression of urban culture.
Was Chris Wallace a nice middle-class boy who put himself in danger because he sensed that, in order to become a rap artist, he needed to pack the street into his résumé? “If you was a nice, ordinary kid, you was an easy mark for the wannabe gangsters,” he says at the beginning of the new biopic “Notorious”-meaning that he had no choice but to be a tough. He was twenty-four years old his second album, “Life After Death,” came out two weeks after he died. After the album was released, he became embroiled in the wars between East Coast and West Coast rappers, and in 1997, following a party in Los Angeles, he was shot and killed. Biggie boasted and taunted his way through songs with a masterly control of rhythm, internal rhyme, metaphor, and story. Organically conceived, with a narrative line chronicling Biggie’s youth and his life on the streets, the album announced his belief that a violent death would be his inevitable fate. An inveterate scribbler, he had written down rhymes since he was a boy, and he made some tapes that came to the attention of the rap entrepreneur Sean (Puffy) Combs, who helped him shape his material and brought out his first album, “Ready to Die,” in 1994. In the next few years, Wallace was in and out of jail, and he carried a gun at times.
When Chris dropped out of school, at the age of seventeen, and became a crack dealer, it was not for lack of love or support Voletta, a teacher who eventually earned a master’s degree in education, adored him. and they all looked like poor, broke-down niggas.Christopher Wallace, who became known as the rapper Biggie Smalls, or the Notorious B.I.G., was born in 1972 and was brought up in Bedford-Stuyvesant by his mother, Voletta Wallace, a middle-class woman from Jamaica. So I was by Fulton Records and I thought, Hey, deejay, play me something nice, man. ' Bout time your ass stopped talking shit. Me and D Roc were like factory workers.ĭ Roc would say, "Yo, can I get a rhyme?" You're not sitting there thinking, "Oh, fuck"? We gotta chill with all that wild-ass phone sex.
Yesterday you said I was gonna end up a garbageman. Now, you need to solve the problem for X. Would you hurry up before you make us both late for class? How much does a garbage collector make?
Praying that God teaches you how to knock. Your mama finally let you out the house?Īddicted to crack after they first hit. We're gonna be all right, just you and me. My moms was from a small town in Jamaica. You was an easy mark for the wanna be gangstersĪnd I want you to know that these are the breaks I don't think I'll be seeing it, dog, for real, man.Ĭome on, hah, sicker than your average poppa Just living comfortably with my wife, you know. Script-O-Rama afterwards - because reading is good for your noodle. At least you'll have some Notorious quotes (or even a monologue or two) to annoy your coworkers with in the meantime, right?
I know, I know, I still need to get the cast names in there and all that jazz, so if you have any corrections, feel free toĭrop me a line. Transcribed using the screenplay and/or viewings of the movie to get the dialogue. This puppy is a transcript that was painstakingly Voila! Finally, the Notorious script is here for all you fans of the biopic of Christopher Wallace, aka Biggie Smalls, Notorious B.I.G., etc. Notorious Script - transcript from the screenplay and/or the Notorious BIG movie Notorious Script - Dialogue Transcript