Notorious - Review

I went to go watch the movie this weekend and to be honest, it did a number of things for me. It made me really realize how some artists have gone a different way with their careers. I don't want to hate, but one person comes to mind. Actually, we'll save that for another post. Notorious was a good movie for what it was. Helped you remember the life and times of the one and only B.I.G. And it brought back some memories. I've seen all kinds of movies, having to deal with the East Coast vs. West Coast Battle, Tupac, Biggie, Rap, or Hip-Hop, because what can I say. I love it. But that's all the movie really was. To be honest I expected a bit more from it. I wanted it to give a better idea of who the man was, what he was trying to accomplish, the things that people didn't really get to see. But maybe I expected too much or maybe with B.I.G, what you saw is what you got.

I liked that I got to bob my head every time one of his songs went on, or that I got to see different actors play the roles of some of the more prominent figures in rap. But all in all, the movie was nothing more than average. One that you could definitely wait to watch on DVD.

1 last thing though, I thank the movie, for reminding me how far we've come from that time, in both a good way and a bad way. Thanks for Barack, sorry for 808s and Heartbreaks. Leave that voice synthesizer shit to T-Pain. You're real and original, but you took a step back from Graduation.