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Born and raised in Brooklyn, N.Y., Christopher Wallace (Jamal Woolard) parlays his gift for storytelling into a career as a rap artist. Eventually dubbing himself Biggie Smalls, then later, the Notorious B.I.G., Wallace's tales about violent street life take him to the top of the rap charts. The subject he so often raps about catches up with him in March of 1997, when he is shot to death after leaving a party.
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The Christopher Wallace (Jamal Woolard) of "Notorious" is a complicated guy. Devoted to his mother, he's callous to the other women in his life and sometimes neglectful of his daughter.
That the character seems to be all over the place makes sense in context. Wallace rose from Brooklyn drug dealer to rap sensation to a primary figure in the bitter East Coast-West Coast hip-hop rivalry before being shot to death in 1997. That's a lot to pack into 24 years.
Wallace, a.k.a. Biggie Smalls, a.k.a. the Notorious B.I.G., simply didn't have enough time to forge a lasting identity, even though his large size and Al Capone suits made him seem very grown up. (Full review)