Son of D'Angelo and Angie Stone Cast as The Notorious B.I.G. in Snoop Dogg Biopic
SwayvoTwain, the musician born Michael D'Angelo Archer II — son of soul singer D'Angelo and the late Angie Stone — will portray The Notorious B.I.G. in the upcoming Snoop Dogg biopic, as first reported by Variety's Angelique Jackson on September 8, 2026 (Variety).
The casting places a first-time film actor in one of hip-hop's most recognisable roles. SwayvoTwain's only previous screen credit is a small part in the 2022 straight-to-streaming film Strictly for the Streets vol. 2, according to Rolling Stone. The Notorious B.I.G., born Christopher Wallace, was a Brooklyn rapper whose two studio albums during his lifetime made him a defining figure of 1990s East Coast hip-hop before his death in 1997.
SwayvoTwain confirmed the news on Instagram with a montage of recent videos, captioning the post "It's all good baby, BABYYY" — a reference to the opening lines of Biggie's 1994 single "Juicy" (Rolling Stone).
The film is slated for theatrical release on August 6, 2027 (The News International; Billboard). It covers the life of Snoop Dogg, the Long Beach rapper born Calvin Broadus Jr., whose 1993 debut Doggystyle cemented him as a cornerstone of West Coast hip-hop and who has since built a career spanning music, television and business.
Other castings have surfaced alongside SwayvoTwain's. Bentley Green is set to portray both RBX — a cousin of Snoop Dogg and original member of the Dogg Pound collective — and the Los Angeles rapper G Perico in the film, according to a post on the film's official Instagram account (Instagram).
SwayvoTwain's parentage links two deep threads of R&B and neo-soul. D'Angelo, born Michael D'Angelo Archer, rose with his 1995 debut Brown Sugar and later won multiple Grammy Awards for Voodoo and the long-gestating Black Messiah. Angie Stone, who died in March 2025, was a singer whose career stretched from the hip-hop trio The Sequence in the late 1970s through a solo run that helped define the neo-soul sound of the late 1990s and early 2000s.
For a film about one of hip-hop's most chronicled figures, the Biggie role carries its own weight of expectation — and handing it to a newcomer with that lineage gives the production a storyline before a single scene is shot.
