Next Tuesday (March 9) will mark the 24th anniversary of the death of Christopher Wallace, better known to the world as The Notorious BIG.

But in the days leading up to this sad reflection, Netflix has released a celebration of his life behind the scenes, proving that all these years later Biggie still has a story to tell.

In this new Netflix documentary, Biggie: I Got a Story to Tell – named after one of the most memorable cuts from his posthumous Life After Death double CD effort, viewers for the first time get more details about the influence Jamaica had on his upbringing.

“I would save up money every year to take my son and myself to Jamaica,” says Voletta Wallace, Biggie’s mother who left the island of her birth as a teenager dreaming of a better life in the United States.

“He loved Jamaica because they spoiled him rotten.”

Biggie, considered by many to be the greatest rapper of all time, first came to the attention of most Jamaicans back on the island when they would see him and a rapping Puff Daddy on dancehall DJ Supercat’s 1993 remix to Dolly My Baby.

Who can forget Biggie’s gold-grilled, full-throated declaration, “Lawd, mi cyan tek it no more!”

If you ever wondered where the New York rapper perfected such a solidly Jamaican-accented phrase, just look to his 96-year-old grandmother, Gwendoyln Wallace, and Uncle Dave.

“I knew Chris would be special,” his grandmother says.

“He was loving, kind, genuine.”

Says Biggie’s mother: “He loved hanging out with his Uncle Dave, because Dave was the musician and he would take him to these joints where they play music and he swore that when he became famous, his Dave would be a part of his group.”

According to Dave: “We just bond together, and from the first time Biggie start to hear me sing, that was it. Many times we were out there and he was rapping and I was singing.”

I Got A Story To Tell does well to shift the focus from the well-travelled territory of the story around death, instead focusing on the beautiful story of his life.