What reason is there to marry ANYBODY nine days after you meet them???

The burbs are cheaper to live in than the city. She could have gotten help to move. She didn't know anybody?

Wow, are you serious? Liquor and narcotics are not the same. they are both poison, but not the same. If we stay on the top of illegal narcotics, they wouldn't be available if the pusher on the street wasn't providing it and on top of that cheaply providing it. There's no way, in my mind, to justify a "job" that is dangerous like that as a way of doing what you had to do to support your family. The risk of arrest is too great (which happened). What then? Who's gonna support the child now? The child he was sooo desperate to support? I don't have children yet, but as a man, I would want to have a stable legal job in order for me to be there for my child in every way I can be. If that means working at the post office, as a trash man, or a fucking waiter, I will do that. If I have to have 2 or 3 jobs, I will do that, but I will not add to the drug problem in my community to get rich quick

You also don't know, what a person will do, in a situation where, their baby is hungry, rent is due and their back is against the wall. It's not fun. Just because you have not lived it, does not mean that it cannot happen to you.

I don't know where you live, but here in Michigan, the 'burbs are NOT cheaper.

And you are over stepping quite a bit to say something like " She could've gotten help to move. She didn't know anybody?". You have no idea what their lives were like. You have no clue. Who are you to pose such a question? Unless you are are willing to move all the would be drug dealers to your cheap homes in the 'burbs, don't sit and assume that everyone has the means to better their situations so easily. It's not that easy.

What idiotic statements

And just an fyi... Plenty of 'burbs are filled with drug dealers and crime

Smooches;)

it's not right to say someone who is dealing drugs to provide for their family is wrong for their actions.

The only idiotic comments here are the ones justifying drug dealing as a way to live

say it again..

and to that I say this....In order to know what a person is going through, one must walk a mile in that person's shoes. In no way am I justifying it. I am just saying that their are those that will resort to such things, due to certain situations. My daughter is justification enough and I am saying this as an educated man, with a good upbringing.

They made her look bad. Like she was just a slut, but that had more to do with how he treated her

The reviews are pretty good
Entertainment Weekly: Notorious is a luridly unapologetic trip through the violence, hunger, verbal bravado, and money fever of the hip-hop world, which it views as both liberating and destructive. … Notorious sticks close to the details, and the hell-bent spirit, of Biggie’s life. B+

The New York Times: So Notorious settles into a curious comfort zone; it’s half pop fable, half naturalistic docudrama. Not a bad movie, but nowhere near as strong as its soundtrack.

Rolling Stone: Notorious leaves Biggie on the verge of a maturity that plays like wishful thinking. But even when this “authorized” movie biography makes you long for the “explicit” version, [Jamal] Woolard’s tour de force finds the human details that forged an artist and lets Biggie fly. 3.5 out of 5

The Hollywood Reporter: This is the first gotta-see movie of 2009. It has terrific performances, a powerful soundtrack, and eye-catching visuals.

Los Angeles Times: Antonique Smith, who plays Faith Evans, the creamy R&B chanteuse who would become Biggie’s wife and the mother of his son, is delicious in the role. Naturi Naughton gives Lil’ Kim, a rapper and Biggie’s longtime lover, a raw, raging edge that scalds everything around her.

Variety: Skim off all the bling, and Notorious is a rock-solid biopic with a foolproof rise-and-fall storyline and a warmly nuanced performance by Jamal Woolard as iconic rapper Christopher Wallace—aka Biggie Smalls, aka the Notorious B.I.G.

USA Today: While Notorious is well-made, it mythologizes someone who treated people, particularly women, with disrespect and whose life and art glamorized drug use, promiscuity and violence. It seems an odd choice of film to open just days before the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday

And that's the unfortunate reality of BIG and Kim's relationship. He favored Faith and Charlie over Kim, that's one of the reasons she's still hurting. I still wonder how she's gonna "expose" Voletta and Faith, ain't like they already expose their own life stories already!

Yo... Charli wasn't even IN THE MOVIE! How you think she feel? Even Craig Mack's role got casted

Beats me. Kim said she agreed to let them use her character in the movie, I don't know how they found Craig Mack!

They made her look bad. Like she was just a slut, but that had more to do with how he treated her

They made her look bad. Like she was just a slut, but that had more to do with how he treated her

I don't know about Michigan, but in both the east and west coasts, the burbs are cheaper than the city, unless you're speaking of affluent areas

The only idiotic comments here are the ones justifying drug dealing as a way to liveJust like I don't know for sure her situation, neither do you. UHAUL has been around for years. People can make happen what they want to make happen. It's not supposed to be easy. I live in the city and most people live there because of the convenience of being in the middle of everything. It makes them lazy

Of course there are drug dealers and crime in the burbs, but it is not in your face like in the city. People aren't openly hanging on the corner selling crack, unless you're in a real bad part of the burbs

HELLO...A lot of burbs/rural areas are MUCH cheaper to live in.

And we're talking NYC here--the most expensive place on the planet.

I was simply making an observation. She gave him everything else within her power, but that was THE ONE THING that did him in-the streets.

When the streets called, it didn't matter that he went to a private school, that his mother was a teacher, and had the umph to earn a master's degree while raising her child. It doesn't matter that your home is a safe haven of love when hell waits right outside your front door.

MSMISHA, get your panties out your booty. I didn't finance his private school or her master's degree, so why would I be needed to fund a move to place like Delaware?

People need to get over thinking that the only way they can do anything is if somebody comes along and does it for them.

KNEE.

GROW.

PLEASE.
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Get over yourself--and your faulty notions and one cannot do better unless someone else finances them.

Few people living in the suburbs of Delaware, New Jersey, and Pa are "banking like that".

SMDH
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It's not the notion that someone has to finance them. It's the notion that YOU think you have a right to say what she should've done with her money and her life. The neigborhood may not have been the best, but not everyone there ends up the way he did. My comment of the "safer and more affluent area" was sarcastic.


Smooches;)

Chick, firstly, don't worry about my panties. You are very out of pocket. You people are soooo quick to say what someone else SHOULD'VE done. Deal with your own life. Where she raised him has nothing to do with it. Like I clearly stated, drugs and crime are everywhere. And if you look at people like Jay-Z, Puffy and many others who are from that exact neighborhood, they are all doing fine. They haven't been shot down. So in the end, where he lived had nothing to do with it. He did what he wanted to do, regardless.


Smooches;)