The Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac Shakur documentaries scheduled to air on A&E this summer have been given new premiere dates. Biggie: The Life of Notorious B.I.G is now scheduled to premiere on September 4 at 8 p.m. ET/PT and Who Killed Tupac? is being bumped to Q4 2017.
Biggie: The Life of Notorious B.I.G. serves as the inaugural project airing under the recently relaunched Biography banner. The three-hour biography allows the late Christopher Wallace to narrate his own life story by employing exclusive archival footage and audio recordings that have never been heard before as well as new interviews by those who loved him most.
The six-part limited series “Who Killed Tupac?” follows civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump as he conducts a thorough investigation 20 years after the tragic shooting death of the West Coast gangster rap luminary.
(The original version of the article was published May 25, 2017 and can be found below.)
A&E is set to relaunch its Biography series this summer with documentaries about The Notorious B.I.G. and Tupac.
A two-part documentary, Biggie: The Life of Notorious B.I.G. includes never-before-heard recordings by Biggie as well as interviews with Voletta Wallace, Faith Evans and members of Junior M.A.F.I.A.
A&E plans to follow The Notorious B.I.G. film with a six-part miniseries about the death of Tupac, called Who Killed Tupac?. It features the contributions of civil rights attorney Benjamin Crump, whose mother attended high school with Tupac’s late mother, Afeni Shakur. Executive Vice President and Head of Programming at A&E Network, Elaine Frontain Bryant, explained the network’s decision to spotlight the slain rappers via a press release.
“The late Christopher Wallace and Tupac Shakur continue to impact the world two decades after their tragic, unsolved murders and there is still a public longing to connect with these figures and to celebrate their legacies,” Bryant said. “We pride ourselves in delivering projects under the ‘Biography’ banner that unearth a side of the story that the public has never seen before. In the case of Biggie: The Life of Notorious B.I.G., the foundation of this biography is exclusive archival footage and audio recordings of Biggie himself, packaged in a way that allows him to tell his own life story as if its present day and we are truly excited to be able to bring that kind of intimacy and connection to his fans.”
A&E’s upcoming shows profiling the late rappers are unrelated to the recently announced documentaries, Notorious B.I.G.: One More Chance and the untitled Tupac project directed by 12 Years A Slave filmmaker Steve McQueen.
Biggie: The Life of Notorious B.I.G. debuts on June 28 at 9 p.m. EST and wraps up on June 29 at 8 p.m. EST, while Who Killed Tupac? premieres on June 29 at 9 p.m. EST.
Definitely checking these out. Always dope to get a new take on these legends.
do the benefits from this go to the familys… ill wait on the answer .. or they goin to suck the last out of our culture ..?
They’re gonna suck the last out of your culture…no more gangbangin and crack slangin for you guys, then what will you do
Pac the king always a pleasure ….
Let these men rest in peace..we kno what happened so why keep benefiting off of their deaths? People keep telling the same story with bullshit theories
Can’t wait to get all the “new” information that we don’t already know about these guy’s story…how fucking lazy is the entertainment industry right now.
The world of urban music, hip hop and black culture in general is so full and diverse yet they continue to push these same dry ass stories.
Google Tupac and Biggie documentaries. There is at least 20 of them. Not counting the books and movies loosely based on their lives.
It’s almost like the Transformers franchise. They’ll just keep revamping and revising their legacies.
I don’t really enjoy Pacs or Biggies music anymore because how much they play it out
Can’t wait for this. People will always be interested in Pac and Big because of their incredible stories. Especially 2pac, no wonder he needed 6 episodes to tell his story. I still bump his music as if it were released yesterday. And don’t worry everyone, I also listen to KRIT, Cole, Cyhi, Bishop Lamont, Reks, Pharoah Monche, Royce, Kendrick, etc.
Y’all are dumb. Just because everyone knows a piece of biggy or Pac life story doesn’t mean you know everything about him or the younger generation knows of these two. How can y’all say they put 20 documentaries out and they make you not wanna hear their music anymore? That means y’all not fans of hip hop period. If you a fan ya watching the movie June 16th and these documentries. Behind the music and notorious or tupac resurrection only shared a few details on their lives. Some talked more on their murders but Some ppl didn’t watch that shit so stfu.
More exploitation of these two. Same old stories.
Tupac movie is about to drop and here comes Biggie news . Still trying to ride Pac wave .
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Those other documentaries didn’t include Suge Knight’s 2016 revelation that it was his business partner from Death Row & his wife or gf that wanted Suge dead to get the label. Tupac was shot instead. All that speculation about LAPD was bullshit. All the previous documentaries got that shit wrong and put together other theories. It would be nice to see one with the bullshit shaved away and the facts and statements presented well.