In addition to the super deluxe box set, The Sky is the Limit campaign will also be honoring Notorious B.I.G.
Blige’s new album, ‘Good Morning, Gorgeous,’ embraces self-worth and new sounds MC Hammer’s Please Hammer Don’t Hurt ‘Em, 2Pac’s Greatest Hits and All Eyez On Me, Eminem’s The Marshall Mathers LP and The Eminem Show, and Outkast’s Speakerboxxx/The Love Below make up the other six. Life After Death is one of only seven rap albums that have been certified diamond, according to Complex. The double album, which included guest appearances from Jay-Z, The Lox, Lil Kim, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, and Mase, became a smash - eventually being certified diamond by the RIAA, with over 11 million units sold to date. His murder occurred just two weeks before the official release of Life After Death on March 25. He was killed on March 9, 1997, at age 24. The Brooklyn-bred rapper, born Christopher Wallace, was born on May 21, 1972. While marking the 25th anniversary of the album, the Life After Death super deluxe release will also commemorate the year that Notorious B.I.G.’s would’ve turned 50. The box set will also be accompanied by a special commemorative booklet, featuring new liner notes from music writer and editor Sheldon Pearce, as well as rare photos from the album’s cover shoot. The film's Achilles' heel proves to be this sense of survivor's guilt that's too often M.I.A.Įven as "Notorious" winds its way to Wallace's death in 1997, the story may be ready for the dusty bookshelf, right next to Homer.The Temptations celebrate their longevity with ‘Temptations 60′ When one character asks if he's "a bad boy trying to be good, or a good boy trying to be bad," Wallace's character wryly replies, "I'm just trying to make it." But Sean Combs - who is listed as the executive producer of "Notorious" and is played in the film by Derek Luke - often seems too close to see the whole picture. Some stories are better when passed around the table, resonating more deeply as the facts begin to loosen. And Naturi Naughton's brave, bracing Lil' Kim simply offers no quarter. Angela Bassett and Antonique Smith, as B.I.G.'s mother and second wife, respectively, exude durable warmth beneath patience that's not.
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Biggie Smalls (played by newcomer Jamal Woolard) - from the streets of New York to the streets of L.A., from an adolescence subsidized by selling crack to pregnant women to a still-unsolved drive-by-shooting death at age 24.Īs the popularity of Wallace's thundering rhymes becomes a Trojan horse for temptation of all dress sizes, it's the ladies who confront him who own this screen version of his life story. The film is an odyssey that sweeps Christopher Latore Wallace - or Big Poppa, a.k.a. Milwaukee native George Tillman Jr.'s biopic "Notorious" eulogizes the larger-than-life, bigger-than-death, seminal rapper. If Homer had grown up in Brooklyn during the 1980s crack epidemic, the "Iliad" might be an East Coast story, with Achilles swapped for Notorious B.I.G. Once upon a time, legends were told in incendiary song, like modern rap anthems that foment everyday reality into thumping myth.