A few weeks later he was banned from the show by host Funkmaster Flex. in the late ’90s, but made headlines in 2006 – and perhaps is best known for – when he was shot in the buttocks outside the infamous New York hip-hop radio station Hot 97 and finished his appearance on the show before being taken to the hospital. Not a total unknown, Gravy released a number of indie hip-hop albums before being signed to Warner Bros. Mackie will play his West Coast rival Tupac Shakur (holy shit!) and Bassett will play Big’s moms Voletta Wallace. Luke will play Sean ‘Puff Daddy, Diddy’ Combs, the BadBoy impresario and record executive who helped launch Biggie’s career with 1994’s classic debut Ready To Die. Name actors like Derek Luke (David Mamet’s “ Spartan“), Angela Bassett and the young thespian heavyweight Anthony Mackie (“Half Nelson”) have all been cast in the film as well. the Notorious B.I.G., in its upcoming biopic. The Fox Searchlight film project, “Notorious,” has cast Jamal Woolard, aka the Brooklyn-based rapper Gravy, to play rap icon Biggie Smalls (Christopher Wallace), a.k.a.

After a long and exhausting nationwide search that included desperately reaching out to the Internet and any plus-sized homies vaguely resembling a famous 350 lbs rapper, the long-gestating Notorious B.I.G.

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