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Jamal "Gravy" Woolard, who made headlines ... [Casting Couch]
Published 3/6/2008 by Maura Johnston at Idolator
... Jamal "Gravy" Woolard, who made headlines in the spring of 2006 when he was shot in the butt outside the Hot 97 building, has been tapped to play the Notorious B.I.G. in Notorious, the Biggie Smalls biopic scheduled to hit theaters in 2009; the movie will also feature Angela Bassett as Biggie's mother, Voletta Wallace. According to Nah Right, Gravy has been at the front of the casting line ...

Notorious B.I.G. Film Casts Rapper to Play Rapper
Published 3/6/2008 by Daniel Kreps at Rolling Stone : Rock and Roll Daily
... after an open call audition. Brooklyn-based rapper Jamal Woolard, who performs under the nom de MC Gravy, has been cast to star as the B.I.G., beating out more than a hundred other Biggies who tried out for the part. Like the man he will be playing, Woolard segued from his job as a drug dealer into that of a rapper. Gravy also earned instant street cred two years ago, when he was shot in the buttocks before a radio appearance outside NY hip-hop station Hot 97’s studios, and then proceeded to brush off his wound and go inside for his interview. ...

That's who they chose to play Biggie Smalls?!
Published 3/6/2008 by Simon Vozick-Levinson at Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
... Back around that whole shooting incident, no less an authoritative rap blogger than Nahright's Eskay mocked Gravy as "a C-List rapper" whom "you've probably never heard of," and his hip-hop career hasn't exactly taken off since then. Now Eskay's ...