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Frontman’s workmanlike attitude is on full display in the rock doc, in Bigger Than the Sound. By James Montgomery The White Stripes Photo: Autumn DeWilde In any other lifetime, Jack White would have been a woodblock printer, a pirate, a missionary, a wheelwright, a buckskin-clad frontiersman, a statesman, a Union soldier, a sharecropping bluesman, a cigar-chomping newsman, an oil baron, an electrical engineer or one of the Wright Brothers. He would have worked very hard for a very long time with very little recognition, would have died for duty and country, would have bested foes with guile and determination, and he would have done all of it simply because that’s what you were supposed to.

Thirteen years after B.I.G.’s death, we look back on his life as hip-hop’s brightest star. Notorious B.I.G