Here is the second official trailer and first full-length trailer for  Notorious, the forthcoming movie about the life and times of The Notorious B.I.G., a.k.a. Biggy Smalls.   Watch the trailer and a behind-the-scenes video blog.   The highly anticipated movie chronicles the life of the East Coast rapper, born Christopher Wallace, in Brooklyn, New York, who rose to stardom and died, tragically, within a few short years at age 24, in 1997.   George Tillman Jr. directed the movie which was written by Reggie Rock Bythewood and Cheo Hodari Coker.  Notorious will be in theaters January 16, 2009.

Jamal Woolard stars as The Notorious B.I.G., Angela Bassett as Voletta Wallace, Derek Luke as Sean Diddy Combs, Anthony Mackie as Tupac Shakur, Antonique Smith as Faith Evans, Sean Ringgold as Suge Knight, Charles Malik Whitfield as Wayne Barrow and Naturi Naughton as Lil Kim.

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See also: Notorious Official Web site

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Here is the Notorious movie trailer.

Here is a behind-the-scenes video blog, featuring an interview with Christopher Wallace’s mother Voletta Wallace who is also the movie’s executive producer.  She speaks of her determination to oversee a project that honors her son’s memory.

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