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...Wallace. Jamal Woolard, a.k.a. Gravy, brings weight to the role (he gained 100 pounds to equal the heft of 300-plus-pounder Biggie) if not always the proper gravitas. And while he may not have Wallace’s deep voice or charisma, he often nails the cadences of Biggie??s flow and delivers a convincing and emotionally candid performance. “Notorious” spends a substantial slice of its running time as a romantic dramedy. After fathering a daughter with his high school girlfriend, Wallace had a lengthy relationship with fiery rapper Lil?...
...most interesting track is “L.A.X.,” a collaboration with Ice Cube that samples the vocals from Biggie??s “Goin’ Back to Cali.” But this just reminds us how great the source material is; the choice shows the desperation in the former gangsta titans desperate to revive their former image...
...blend the historical and literary disciplines throughout his lectures, constructing a class that embodies the spirit that should animate more Core offerings. The downside: be prepared to work your way through several tests and papers. The upside: if you skip a lecture or ten, it’s no biggie??it’s probably based on a much shorter New Yorker article Menand’s wrote anyway...
...years later, sulking on the steps of Holworthy in late February after a disappointing first semester, Isaac Weiler ’02-’03 plugged in his headphones and turned on Biggie??s “Suicidal Thoughts.” Harvard was too suffocating, too pretentious for the half-black, half-Jewish boy from a segregated New Jersey town. He seriously considered dropping out of school...
...world know that—when he wasn’t implicating himself in gun shoot-outs or dating Jennifer Lopez—he was at an altar with a rather corpulent black man on the cross. But regardless of Combs’ personal stake in his exploitation of Biggie??s death, it was an exploitation that produced positive consequences. The East Coast-West Coast rap rivalry and its participants suddenly came into the national spotlight, out of the manipulative hands of hip-hop rags that had helped fan the flames of enmity. Subsequently, the media began singling...