In Notorious (Rolling Stone’s 2008 Hot Biopic), director George Tillman Jr. gives viewers a crash course on Christopher Wallace. The movie begins with the Brooklyn MC’s youth and quickly leads to his eventual life as Kwest, the hustler who also raps, who then becomes full-time MC, the Notorious B.I.G. Jayson Rodriguez sat down with the cast — which includes Angela Bassett (What’s Love Got To Do With It), Derek Luke (Antwone Fisher) and Anthony Mackie (She Hate Me) as well as newcomer Jamal “Gravy” Woolard, who fills Big’s shoes — to find out the ins and outs of portraying Diddy, impressing Biggie’s real-life mom and digging into one of the most violent rap feuds ever. Read the full story here:

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