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Yeah, I played with Art Blakey
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Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell

Yeah, I played with Art Blakey, Miles Davis, and Lena Horne

Yeah, I played with Art Blakey, Miles Davis, and Lena Horne

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Yeah, I played with Art Blakey,
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Miles Davis, and Lena Horne.
Duration
8 seconds
Views
31
Timestamp in Movie
00:19:06
Uploaded
May 12, 2025
Genres
documentary, biography, music
Production
Submarine Entertainment,Bystorm Films

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Movie Summary

This documentary features rare footage filmed by Christopher Wallace's best friend, Damion "D-Roc" Butler, and interviews with his closest friends and family, revealing a side of Biggie Smalls that the world never knew.
Clinton Hill, at that time, - Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell 00:09
Clinton Hill, at that time,
A jazz musician used to live on my block on Saint James. - Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell 00:04
A jazz musician used to live on my block on Saint James.
I was being helped by older musicians, - Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell 00:06
I was being helped by older musicians,
One of the things that they told me, - Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell 00:06
One of the things that they told me,
With Chris, I did a lot of different things, - Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell 00:13
With Chris, I did a lot of different things,
He would be a sponge - Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell 00:07
He would be a sponge
I was initially trying to groom Chris to be a jazz artist - Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell 00:07
I was initially trying to groom Chris to be a jazz artist
One of the things that we worked on - Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell 00:09
One of the things that we worked on
We listened to Max Roach with Clifford Brown. - Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell 00:04
We listened to Max Roach with Clifford Brown.
Max has a very melodic way of playing the drums. - Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell 00:04
Max has a very melodic way of playing the drums.
Put some lyrics to that, - Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell 00:16
Put some lyrics to that,
I got my first turntable set by the time I hit junior high. - Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell 00:05
I got my first turntable set by the time I hit junior high.
Every summer, Chris would come back from Jamaica, - Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell 00:11
Every summer, Chris would come back from Jamaica,
He said, "You know, I can't sleep without country music on." - Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell 00:05
He said, "You know, I can't sleep without country ...
And we found a studio downtown Brooklyn called Funky Slice, - Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell 00:08
And we found a studio downtown Brooklyn called Funky Slice,
We're gonna show you how to make a demo tape, - Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell 00:07
We're gonna show you how to make a demo tape,
So his skills was not only in lyrics, - Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell 00:05
So his skills was not only in lyrics,
People who transcend - Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell 00:07
People who transcend
You got to add something else into the equation - Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell 00:05
You got to add something else into the equation
Every rapper made me wanna do it. Any nigga who got played on the radio. - Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell 00:04
Every rapper made me wanna do it. Any nigga who got played o...