D’Angelo and Angie Stone’s Son Will Play the Notorious B.I.G. in the Snoop Dogg Biopic

The Snoop Dogg biopic has cast its Notorious B.I.G., with a famous son set to play Big Poppa.

As Variety reports, SwayvoTwain — the musician born Michael D’Angelo Archer II to late legendary artists D’Angelo and Angie Stone — will portray Biggie in the film, which is expected to hit theaters in August 2027. While Archer has been regularly releasing music as SwayvoTwain over the past few years, this will be his first major acting role after scoring a small part in the 2022 straight-to-streaming film Strictly for the Streets vol. 2.

SwayvoTwain celebrated the announcement on Instagram, sharing a montage of recent videos, including a short clip of him hanging out with Snoop himself. “It’s all good baby, BABYYY,” he wrote in the caption, a nod to the opening lines of the Notorious B.I.G. classic, “Juicy.”

It’s unclear how big of a role SwayvoTwain will have in the Snoop biopic. Biggie and Snoop were friendly, but not super close, and, geographically speaking, they sat on opposite ends of the infamous East Coast/West Coast rap feud of the Nineties. But their paths crossed on a couple of occasions, and though there was mutual respect and admiration, their relationship was marred somewhat by the tensions of the day.