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“The first five to 10 seconds of it was all really all I needed to hear,” Matteo Capoluongo, founder of the
Source magazine, says of his first listen to a Notorious B.I.G. demo tape in
Biggie: I Got A Story To Tell, the new Netflix documentary about the late Brooklyn rapper. “I heard it, I was like, what the f***?” recalls Sean Combs, the rapper-turned-businessman who was a talent director at Uptown Records when he heard the then-unknown Christopher Wallace for the first time. “I was like, thank you, God.” We know Capoluongo and Combs are not exaggerating. The experience of listening to the Notorious B.I.G., also known as Biggie Smalls, hasn't softened over the last 28 years.