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The Ryen Russillo Podcast

Discussing New Notorious B.I.G. Doc With His Manager and the Director. Plus NFL Free Agency Primer With Sheil Kapadia and “Is This NBA Season a Mess Defensively?”

The Ryen Russillo Podcast

The Ringer

Sports

4.813.9K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2021

⏱️ 102 minutes

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Summary

Russillo shares his thoughts and some statistics on what makes this NBA season unique (2:00), before talking with The Athletic’s Sheil Kapadia about names to watch in NFL free agency, including Von Miller, Melvin Ingram, Allen Robinson, Cam Newton, and more (15:00). Then Ryen talks with the Notorious B.I.G.’s manager, Wayne Burrow, and the director of the new Netflix documentary ‘Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell,’ Emmett Malloy, about the inception of the documentary, Biggie’s musical influences, meeting with Biggie’s mother, ultra-rare footage in the doc, the escalation of the “beef” between Biggie and 2Pac, and more (41:00). Finally Ryen answers some listener-submitted Life Advice questions (1:17:00). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Big was the first one to actually step out and again given the dynamics of his history

0:08.2

in terms of how he became what he was and laying down his rat patterns and understanding

0:12.7

the jazz and adding all the story elements from country music like when you look at that

0:17.9

then I think it gives you a better understanding of why he was able to come in and slide

0:22.5

through that one little hole to make this big fucking announcement that we are fucking

0:28.9

back what I'm putting the city on my motherfucking back Brooklyn has to go let's do this Brooklyn

0:35.3

in the motherfucking house it's on right and it wasn't no level of disrespect here in

0:41.0

and in New York and the dancer wasn't even disrespect over there it was just I'm here I'm

0:46.8

kicking in this fucking door and we're gonna go.

0:50.5

We have an awesome podcast for you today I've got a story to tell Biggie Small's documentary

0:55.5

out on Netflix and we're gonna talk to Christopher Wallace's manager and the director of this

1:01.1

movie we're gonna do NFL free agency primer which about two weeks away from this it's already

1:05.9

starting with the Gigi Wat news shield capacity of the athletic and some NBA trend stuff.

1:11.8

I want to start with some NBA stuff because we have so much else going on in this podcast

1:15.6

today again the Biggie Small's documentary coming out today on Netflix and then shield

1:20.5

capacity is gonna do some NFL free agency but I'm just in this moment where I watch basketball

1:25.5

probably every night except for two and then one of those nights was a Super Bowl where

1:28.7

I was like you know what maybe we'll take a little break from it and I'm noticing some

1:31.7

things and I'm not even sure that I'm right about this but I'm gonna work my way into a

1:36.0

bigger question about what it is we're seeing this season so right now in the east it's

1:41.5

a mess look at some of these records first of all every team from the four seed nicks

1:47.9

shout out to the nicks 18 and 17 I knew tibs could coach I've said numerous times he's

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