Biggie Smalls Throwback

January 18, 2009 / / No comments

I saw Notorious this weekend and really enjoyed it. Instead of replicating a full review over here you can catch it over at my own site if you’re curious about the details. Just know that it was hot, especially for true fans, and I highly recommend it. The best part of the movie, though, beyond the chance to reflect on the significance of one of hip-hop’s finest artists, was the music itself. As much as I bump Biggie occasionally on my own being in a theater full of heads rhyming along made his dopeness really sink in. A really smart early scene showed a young Frank White freestyling on a Fulton Street corner in Brooklyn (which nowadays has plastic surgery and law offices, but those are the wonders of gentrification, I guess). The freestyle in the movie was cribbed from this real footage below. He was definitely one of the best to ever do it.

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