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The film opens at a party in Los Angeles in March 1997. Christopher Wallace / Biggie Smalls / The Notorious B.I.G. (Jamal Woolard) is seen sitting at his chair smoking a cigar. People, including Faith Evans (Antonique Smith) and Sean Combs (Derek Luke), move to the music on the dance floor. Moments later, Biggie, Combs, and friends are driving away from the party. They stop at a red light, while a friend, Lil’ Cease, (Marc John Jefferies) is flirting with women outside. A black Chevrolet Impala pulls up and someone inside fires a single shot at Biggie.The film then flashes back to Biggie’s early childhood in 1984, recounting his tough upbringing in the Clinton Hill section of Brooklyn. Biggie (Christopher "CJ" Wallace, Jr.) writes several rap songs, enduring the ridicule of some classmates. Biggie then starts selling drugs at the height of the crack epidemic. In 1990, after winning an important rap battle and meeting Lil’ Kim (Naturi Naughton) for the first time, Biggie’s mother, Voletta (Angela Bassett), throws him out of the house after discovering his involvement with drugs.In 1992, after spending two years in prison, he goes to see his girlfriend Jan (Julia Pace Mitchell), and their new daughter, T’yanna (Taylor Dior). After reconciling with his mother, he goes to find D-Roc and Lil’ Cease and records a demo called "Microphone Murderer."Shortly thereafter, Biggie meets Sean Combs, an ambitious producer for Uptown Records. Combs promises Biggie that he will sign him to a record deal. Combs, however, will only accept Biggie if he gives up drug dealing. Biggie agrees and then leaves. Biggie nearly ruins his chances, however, a few days later. Biggie, along with his friend, D-Roc, has a run-in with the police which results in Biggie throwing his illegal gun into the bushes. They are caught by the police after a chase. D-Roc eventually decides to "take the fall" for the both of them because he believes that Biggie can succeed as a rapper.Biggie learns that Combs has lost his job at Uptown Records. Frustrated and upset, he leaves Combs and goes back home only to discover that his mother has breast cancer. Biggie becomes depressed, but soon recovers when Combs begins his own record label, Bad Boy Records, and signs him. Biggie starts recording songs for his first album, Ready To Die, thereafter. He records his first single. Combs refuses the track saying there’s another song that Biggie can record. The track is called "Juicy".Biggie meets Faith Evans at a photoshoot. They begin a whirlwind courtship, marrying several days later. Meanwhile, Biggie continues to ignore his relationship with Jan and their child. When Faith discovers Biggie’s relationship with Jan, she goes to confront Biggie, seeing him with yet another woman. The two later reconcile despite the fact that tensions between him, Faith, Jan, and Lil’ Kim, yet another of Biggie’s paramours, continue to grow.Biggie begins a friendship with rapper/actor Tupac Shakur (Anthony Mackie). Biggie celebrates his album Ready To Die with Tupac, admiring the other rapper. When Tupac is shot in Quad Studios, however, he blames Combs, Biggie and Bad Boy Records for instigating it. At The Source Awards in 1995, Death Row Records executive, Suge Knight, makes a speech "dissing" Combs and Bad Boy Records, claiming Death Row is the better label. Soon the disagreement escalates into the East Coast-West Coast beef and attacks are made on both sides. The friendship between Biggie and Tupac is ruined. Tupac verbally assaults Biggie at a later time, but leaves when Biggie’s security pulls out a pistol.A track called "Who Shot Ya?" is released, a song which claims to diss Tupac. Biggie and Combs claim that "Who Shot Ya?" was recorded before Tupac was shot, but Suge and Tupac claim otherwise.After seeing a magazine photo of Tupac and Faith hugging each other, Biggie becomes enraged. He interrupts an interview that is being conducted with Faith, running after Faith. Faith hides from Biggie and Biggie is forced to leave by one of his managers, Mark Pitts (Kevin Phillips). Later, Faith explains that she and Tupac met at the House of Blues and simply took a picture. Biggie tries to renew the relationship, but tensions continue to grow between them.The East Coast-West Coast rivalry continues until September 1996 when Tupac is murdered in Las Vegas. Sometime afterwards, Biggie calls his mother, Voletta. Voletta states that Tupac probably died as a result of their arguments. Not only is Biggie shaken by Tupac’s untimely death, he continues to have relationship problems with Faith, Jan and Lil’ Kim. Biggie attempts to resolve these issues by meeting with Jan and their daughter more often.Biggie and D-Roc renew their friendship after D-Roc is released from prison. Biggie decides to go Los Angeles to promote his upcoming album Life After Death and brings D-Roc and Lil’ Cease with him. The three men, along with Combs and Faith, all travel to Los Angeles. Biggie gets several death threats. Biggie reveals that Faith is pregnant.Biggie is shot and killed moments after calling Lil’ Kim to apologize and to set up a meeting with her. A few days later Voletta, Combs, Lil’ Cease, D-Roc, Lil’ Kim, Faith and others all grieve over the death of Biggie at the funeral.