'There was this incredible life': telling the true story of the Notorious BIG

A new Netflix documentary aims to tell the unheard story of a tragic rapper, focusing on the personal, speaking to those who knew and miss him

This was a four-year journey for us," film-maker Emmett Malloy tells the Guardian of his ambitious new documentary that aims to tell the story of Christopher Wallace, more famously known as the Notorious BIG. He was murdered at the age of 24 in Los Angeles and a week away from the 24th anniversary if his death, Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell is landing on Netflix.

Malloy partnered with Biggie's estate manager Wayne Barrow, and the late rapper's 68-year-old mother, Voletta Wallace in order to bring to fruition a true representation of the rapper's real upbringing - the glorious moments and the glorified.