I Got a Story to Tell’ Trailer Shows How Rapper Saved Lives

If you don’t know there’s a Netflix documentary coming quickly about The Notorious B.I.G., now you recognize.

The movie “Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell” about East Coast rapper Christopher Wallace, aka Biggie Smalls, delves into how his music not solely made him a legend, however modified individuals’s lives.

“Big had a gift of talent that saved a lot of people’s lives but his,” one of many rapper’s associates says within the doc’s trailer. Biggie, who was killed in 1997 on the age of 24, can later be heard saying in a clip, “We’re just gonna do our thing forever. Forever and ever.”

“Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell” is directed by Emmett Malloy, who has helmed music movies for Vampire Weekend, The White Stripes, Beck, Avril Lavigne and Blink-182, and is understood for his movie “The Tribes of Palos Verdes.”

The documentary illustrates how Biggie’s fast rise to fame and tragic finish has been a central story of rap music for greater than 20 years. It options new interviews with the rapper’s closest family and friends — together with his mom, Voletta Wallace, and shut collaborator Sean “Diddy” Combs — and examines not simply his private and personal life, however the affect his music made on generations of artists. Much of the never-before-seen archival footage of Biggie was filmed by Damion “D-Roc” Butler.

“Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell” arrives after The Notorious B.I.G. was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2020. Its launch additionally comes shortly earlier than what would have been his 50th birthday.

The documentary is produced by David Koh, Wayne Barrow, William Green, Aaron L. Ginsburg, Terry Leopard and Daniel Pappas. Executive producers are Sean Combs, Voletta Wallace, Mark Pitts, Stanley Buchthal, Emmett Malloy and Brendan Malloy.

“Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell” debuts on Netflix on March 1. Check out the trailer right here and above.