Notorious: It's Getting Boring Already

The NY Times is doing some stuff on Notorious, the Biggie Smalls movie in progress that we get to hear about every inch of the way.

They've got an audition video that doesn't link through and a slide show that works but both are from October which explains why they're so disappointingly familiar.

But the best part isn't really about Biggie at all:
"Failure could expose the studio to ridicule — pop-culture aficionados have already been sniping on the Internet — from a musical culture that has made a religion of credibility."

Using phrases like "pop-culture aficionados" when you're referring to bloggers and hip hop fans is a good way to draw ridicule but the religious claim is dead on.

Hip hop has a religion of credibility that's reaped more fakers than any other musical genre of which I'm aware but we're pretty much par for the course for religious movements.

And that's good business!