Notorious (2:02) 2009

Notorious is the story of Christopher Wallace, the rapper better known as Notorious B.I.G. The movie starts with Chris as a young boy being raised by his single mom, played by Angela Bassett. As a young teenager, Chris sells drugs and meets with success. After a slip up, Chris is arrested and spends some time in prison. While in prison, his girlfriend gives birth to his daughter. While he prison, Chris writes poetry. When he is released, he has an opportunity to become a rapper. With Sean Combs help, he releases his first album. Biggie rises to the top quickly. As he rises to the top, a war breaks out between the West Coast and East Coast rappers. Unfortunately, the war has been created by the press and then continue to fuel the flames until the war ends in tragedy. Neither my daughter or I are fans of the rapper genre but we both admitted that Notorious is a very interesting story, with a big round of applause to Jamal Woolard who became Biggie.