Big Ls brother breaks his silence in new doc that promises answers decades after legendary rapper gunned down

The mystery of who gunned down legendary Harlem rapper Big L nearly 30 years ago might finally be solved, the family told The Post this week.Lamont Coleman was shot and killed in his prime in a Feb.15, 1999, drive-by shooting on the corner of West 139th Street and Lenox Avenue — the gritty spot prominently featured in his rhymes.

He was just 24.Since then, two more members of Coleman’s immediate family have also been killed in a two-block radius of where he was fatally blasted nine times.Lamont’s childhood friend Gerald Woodley was arrested three months after the murder, but later released due to lack of evidence.The family insisted this week there is more to the story and they will be telling it in a new documentary, “The Parable of Lamont Coleman,” due to come out before the end of the year.The film chronicles the decades-long web of relationships and betrayals around the enigmatic “Lifestylez ov da Poor & Dangerous” rapper, whose songs like “Flamboyant” “M.V.P.” and “Danger Zone” made him an underground hip-hop sensation“Everything will be answered,” Big L’s brother Donald Phinazee told The Post.“For the first time, my family’s true story will be told, and it will be shocking,” he added.

There are never-before-seen home videos, unreleased footage, and new testimony that challenges the old narratives and will finally tell the complex story around Big L’s death.Where it will be shown will be announced at a later date.The family did not shy away from saying that Big L was a product of his environment.“Lamont was no saint,” Phinazee admitted.Leroy “Big Lee” Phinazee, Big L’s older half-brother, was a leader of the notorious Harlem street gang known as the 139th St.NFL Crew, according to a 2017 book titled “Ethylene: The Rise and Fall of The NFL Crew.”NFL, or “N—-z For Life,” was known for extreme violence, drug trafficking and allegedly involved in dozens of murders and was often mentioned in Big L�...

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Publisher: New York Post

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