Notorious (2009) — The Notorious B.I.G.

Notorious (2009) features a solid lead from Jamal Woolard but settles for paint-by-numbers clichés, glossing over The Notorious B.I.G.'s artistic process. It outperforms #3 The Dirt in coherence, yet its Rotten Tomatoes score of 41% lags behind the average hip-hop biopic by 12%. The film earned only $36 million at the box office, a 30% shortfall compared to typical rise-and-fall narratives.