The collection will expand to select retailers on May 21st. The FILA x Biggie Collection drops today, exclusively on. FILA says the shoes will be distributed to schools and summer camps in Bedford-Stuyvesant, where Biggie was born and raised. To further honor the late rapper’s memory, FILA is donating a pair of children’s sneakers to the Christopher Wallace Memorial Foundation, for every collaboration sneaker sold. “Partnering with the estate was key for this collaboration,” he stresses, adding that “Everyone involved is thrilled and excited about the collection as it honors Biggie’s legacy.” Colon III, VP of Heritage and Trend at FILA North America. “We created this exclusive collection to honor a groundbreaking album, artist and pop culture icon who has left a lasting impact in the music world and beyond,” says Louis W. As such, Lil’ Kim and the unpleasant details of their relationship in and out of the booth aren’t even touched on.FILA says it worked directly with the Christoper Wallace Estate to get permission for the project. It then partnered with the branding and licensing agency, Merch Traffic, which owns the rights to the use of Biggie’s image. Wallace and Diddy, who obviously are more inclined to enrich Biggie’s legacy, not complicate it. Others lie in the executive producer credits for Ms. Some of them are perhaps unsolvable: There’s only so much you can cover in a short life even if you’re a moderate Biggie obsessive, this is at least the third time you’ve heard Voletta Wallace tell the story of the dried mashed potatoes. I Got A Story To Tell doesn’t solve every problem inherent to making a good Christopher Wallace documentary. Biggies son, Christopher 'C.J.' Wallace, toasted his own big poppa on Tuesday by releasing a remix of his fathers career. Seeing them whine about the heat on a tour bus or marvel at the sun setting behind silhouetted mountains - just living - feels like a small triumph. It was all a dream for The Notorious B.I.G., but this news is legit. The album made him the central figure in East Coast hip hop, and restored New York's visibility at a time when the West Coast hip hop scene was dominating hip hop music. James Place, Gates Avenue, and Fulton Street regularly pop up in Biggie lore, but seeing their closeness on the film’s map, one understands beatmaker Easy Mo Bee’s pity about how, for a time, these dark blocks were the only world Wallace and his crew knew. His debut album Ready to Die (1994) was met with widespread critical acclaim, and included his signature songs 'Juicy' and 'Big Poppa'. There’s insight into why Biggie dedicated Life After Death‘s “Miss U” to Roland “Olie” Young: Before his death made the New York Times, he was someone who believed in his boy. The doc’s personal focus also gives an interior to the folks Biggie immortalizes through his songs, which in turns gives the star another dimension. In the scenes immediately before and after the verse’s appearance, Diddy remembers Biggie trying to hide his poverty from him and a lifelong friend opens up about intimate conversations where Wallace knew his raps were a lifeboat from a life spent preparing for death. “Whatchu Want” includes some of his most assaultive bars, but the film suggests the cartoonish violence comes from real-world frustration. Even Biggie’s more exaggerated rhymes are couched in human stakes. is hip-hop, they make connections for the genre itself.
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The details don’t only illuminate the finer threads that run through his art: Because the Notorious B.I.G. His uncle and grandmother in Jamaica appear on screen to remember a young Christopher embracing the island’s sounds, while saxophonist Donald Harrison - a neighbor up in Clinton Hill - talks about bonding with him when he was grooming his “little buddy” to be a jazz artist.
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I Got A Story To Tell takes care to lionize Biggie’s gifts as well as the biographical particulars of what went into his quotables.
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We see what Ready To Die was before it became a cultural jewel: the product of a drug dealer trying to survive, blindly betting on a fired music executive. (It’s on you if you believe that actually happened.) I Got A Story To Tell isn’t that interested in redressing Biggie’s two-album arc in gold and insisting on its significance to the universe. That’s how you get moments like Biggie saying that Pinterest-ready “can’t change the world unless we change ourselves” line, to Diddy, in the middle of a club. It’s apparently hard to take a fresh look at a person that’s immediately tied to so many of hip-hop’s biggest tropes without just relying on the tropes. The catalog of Biggie documentaries is plagued with features that obsess over the cruel details of his death instead of the intricacies of his life, making sure his legend stays a legend, or just repeating what’s come before.