Notorious: Hold You Down

When Ms. Wallace speaks of B.I.G., one can tell that she remembers her brilliant child who would give her oral reports on the books he completed reading, or she is remembering what a great conversationalist he was or how he would often call to check in on her and his daughter, T’yanna, when he was on the road. Ms Wallace described her son: “He was a person that was loved, that I loved, who cared and that I cared for, a father who was cared for and a very, very dear friend. Someone with a big heart, a kind and gentle human being.” By: MC But after the writers of the film interviewed all of B.I.G.’s closest friends and associates to get the true complexity of his life, Ms. Wallace became aware of some negative things about her son that she wasn’t ready to hear or see but hoped to be able to accept when she views the final edit of the film. “I don’t want to clear his name because to be honest some of those things were true. But I wanted them to see the good things. I also wanted them to ... (link)