She thinks he is a big part of why her son is dead.

As much as they tried and as much editing prowess they possessed, the filmmakers behind a recent documentary about a permanent A list rapper could not get his mother to say one nice thing about the mogul/wannabe rapper.

She thinks he is a big part of why her son is dead.

Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell

The Notorious B.I.G. aka Biggie Smalls

Mother: Voletta Wallace

Mogul: Sean Combs – P. Diddy

Netflix’s Biggie Smalls documentary ignores a huge part of his life

Directed by Emmett Malloy, Biggie is a paper-thin account of one of hip-hop’s most mythologized figures, tracing the broad strokes of his tragically short biography. Produced by his mother, Voletta Wallace, and Sean “P. Diddy” Combs — whose record label released Biggie’s entire catalogue — the movie tells Biggie’s story via testimony from people who are exclusively interested in portraying him in the most radiant light, for reasons that are either obvious, like in Voletta’s case, or arguably self-serving, as with Combs.

Combs’ contributions are a big reason I Got a Story to Tell is so frustrating. The mogul and former kingmaker is among the most prominent subjects interviewed, and he works overtime to enshrine Biggie as even more of a deity than he already is. Combs is a valuable interview because he was there, as a key figure in Biggie’s meteoric ascent and his escalating conflicts. But Combs is only interested in framing Biggie as the Zeus of Rap Olympus, a title he says he knew Biggie would hold from day one. Combs is less interested in divulging anything personal, and the context he offers would be better served coming from someone who won’t profit from the legacy he’s diligently burnishing.

Worse, I Got A Story to Tell spins its tale without even mentioning many of its characters. No one speaks of Faith Evans, a monumental artist in her own right who briefly married Biggie and had a child with him. Suge Knight, Combs’ West Coast counterpart and a key figure in the ’90s hip-hop turf war, is also ignored. Both of them are hard to extricate from Biggie’s story — they actually appear in the archival footage the documentary pulls from — but for Malloy’s purposes, they might as well not exist. – Source