Here's the first snapshots of Jamal Woolard as Notorious B.I.G. in the upcoming biopic "Notorious." Concreteloop.com caught him in the first day of filming.. Source:Concrete Loop
According to published reports, R&B singer Sean Kingston has been selected to play the role of Notorious B.I.G. in an upcoming biopic. Kingston said; "When I first heard about that movie, it was through management. My management told me about it and you know I had auditioned for it and I met with the director and I nailed it and he gave me a shot now at being in the movie."
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Posted August 12.. The life and death of Notorious B.I.G. is coming to the movie screens. Producers confirmed of the upcoming biopic "Notorious" of the rapper, in addition will have the Biggie Smalls role filled through an open casting call, movie officials said.
Producers are seeking auditioning actors and non-actors, that resembles the late-rapper Christopher Wallace. Anyone who is interested can submit audition videos via internet beginning Monday to www.foxsearchlight.com/notorious or http://www.biggiecasting.com/.
The script is based on Cheo Hodari Cocker's book Unbelievable: The Life, Death & Afterlife of the Notorious B.I.G. The movie project has been in the works for six years. As producers of the film hope to begin production this fall.
The life and death of Notorious B.I.G. is coming to the movie screens. Producers confirmed of the upcoming biopic "Notorious" of the rapper, in addition will have the Biggie Smalls role filled through an open casting call, movie officials said.
Producers are seeking auditioning actors and non-actors, that resembles the late-rapper Christopher Wallace. Anyone who is interested can submit audition videos via internet beginning Monday to www.foxsearchlight.com/notorious or www.biggiecasting.com.
The script is based on Cheo Hodari Cocker’s book Unbelievable: The Life, Death & Afterlife of the Notorious B.I.G. The movie project has been in the works for six years. As producers of the film hope to begin production this fall.
Danity Kane goes platinum: Danity Kane, the girl group from MTV Making the Band 3, went platinum (1 million copies) with their first self titled album.
Biggie/Pac Movie back on? Reported from the Moviehole.net...
Word is, even the struggling Biggie/Tupac movie that Sly was working on - tentatively titled "Notorious" - is also back on. Welcome back Italian Stallion.
More Baby Presents: LL Cool J gave some gifts to the Porter/Diddy twin girls, D'Lila Star and Jessie James. Each of the girls received a cream colored custom-made crib from Ga Ga Designs. Both girls got a pair of French Ancestry Cherubini Cribs (valued at $2,250 each).
Time Magazine has selected Bad Boy Record's 1994 Biggie Smalls' 'Ready to Die' among the magazine's all-time 100 albums. Its among a very small selection of rap/hip hop albums making the list..
From Time.com Christopher Wallace was a Brooklyn drug dealer, and, if his early interviews are to be believed, not a very nice one. Luckily, this was not his signal accomplishment. On Ready to Die Wallace took his street corner experiences and filtered them through his considerable charm. The result was a record that mixed long stretches of menace ("Things Done Changed," "Everyday Struggle") with romance ("One More Chance") and lots of humor. No rapper ever made multi-syllabic rhymes ("Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis/ When I was dead broke man I couldn't picture this") sound as smooth.
A nice accomplishment to be named among so many greats.
A interesting piece from the Slate.. On Bridgeport Music Inc. suing artist for sampling, which is a industry norm in hip-hop.. It turns out the same company, sued over the Notorious B.I.G. album Ready to Die for illegal sampling, the album later pulled from shelves. The company was later awarded over 4 million in damages..
Last week, a mysterious company, Bridgeport Music Inc., sued hip-hop mogul Jay-Z, accusing him of breaking the law when he recorded his 2003 single "Justify My Thug." The song is an obvious nod to Madonna's "Justify My Love," but she is not the plaintiff. Instead, Bridgeport is suing because Jay-Z did something that is normal in hip-hop: sampling. He took a few notes, looped them in the background, and produced the tune. Bridgeport claims to own those notes, and is demanding a fortune in damages and a permanent ban on the distribution of the song. Bridgeport is an unwelcome addition to the music world: the "sample troll." Similar to its cousins the patent trolls, Bridgeport and companies like it hold portfolios of old rights (sometimes accumulated in dubious fashion) and use lawsuits to extort money from successful music artists for routine sampling, no matter how minimal or unnoticeable.
March of this year, Bridgeport cashed in. It convinced a court to enjoin the sales of the best-selling Notorious B.I.G. album Ready to Die for illegal sampling. A jury awarded Bridgeport more than $4 million in damages.
A Federal Court has ordered the city of Los Angeles to pay the Christopher Wallace family for withholding evidence in the Biggie Smalls civil suit... LA. Times continued...
In a stinging rebuke, a federal judge Friday ordered the city of Los Angeles to pay $1.1 million in attorney fees and costs to the family of slain rap artist Notorious B.I.G. as sanctions for intentionally withholding evidence.
U.S. District Judge Florence-Marie Cooper declared a mistrial last summer in the family's civil lawsuit after finding that a Los Angeles Police Department detective hid statements linking the killing to rogue LAPD Officers David A. Mack and Rafael Perez, a central figure in the Rampart police scandal.
At the time, city attorneys protested that the statements had come from a jailhouse informant seeking special treatment, and robbery-homicide Det. Steven Katz insisted that he had overlooked the transcript of the remarks in his desk.
But Cooper ruled that Katz and perhaps others had deliberately concealed the information and said it could have bolstered the family's contention that Mack was involved in the killing.
The sanctions followed a series of legal volleys in which Cooper asked the plaintiffs' attorneys to submit fees and costs — and the city to contest those calculations.
Though Cooper didn't give the family the $2 million it originally sought, she left open the possibility of an additional award of $300,000. (More at L.A. Times)
B.I.G. Duets: The Final Chapter remains strong: Bad Boy Fans, and rap-hip hop fans have kept up strong sales of the Biggie Smalls, B.I.G. Duets, as it remains #1 on Billboard's top rap albums since its Dec. 19th release. While, The Final Chapter's "Nasty Girl" video remains one of MTV's most requested videos..
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