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RAP FOR ‘BIGGIE’ ACTOR

A Brooklyn rapper who’s hit the big time playing hip-hop legend Biggie Smalls in the new movie “Notorious” is getting some unwanted notoriety.

Jamal Woolard, 33, was busted last year for allegedly slapping his wife inside their East New York home, The Post has learned.

According to court papers, Woolard, who raps under the name Gravy, was charged with misdemeanor assault, menacing and harassment in connection with the Sept. 14 incident.

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Woolard’s wife, Trina Younger, called police following an early-morning altercation sparked by Woolard’s late return home, said a source familiar with the police report.

The victim told police she dared Woolard to hit her, the report says.

The paperwork also indicates that Woolard admitted responsibility, allegedly telling cops, “She wouldn’t stop pushing me, so I snuffed her.”

The rapper’s mother-in-law, who is staying with the couple during the film’s opening weeks, said she was unaware of any domestic-violence incident.

“I know he wouldn’t hit her,” said Roslyn Younger. “He’s not like that. Most definitely, they have a good relationship. That’s impossible. I think it’s made up. He’s a loving husband and I never heard of anything like that before in my life.”

Neither Woolard nor his wife, who have been married seven months but together for five years, could be reached.

Woolard’s lawyer, Cory Walker, of the Legal Aid Society, did not return a call seeking comment.

It’s an unusual case for the Legal Aid Society, which normally handles the cases of those defendants too poor to hire their own attorneys.

Pat Bath, a Legal Aid Society spokesperson, did not return a call seeking an explanation.

In 2006, Woolard was himself the victim of an assault when he was shot in the buttocks outside Hot 97’s radio studios in Manhattan while arriving to do an interview. He went ahead with the interview.

He’s received generally good reviews for his spot-on portrayal of Christopher Wallace, the slain rap legend known to millions as Biggie Smalls and the Notorious B.I.G.

Woolard spent weeks before production working with an acting coach, a choreographer and a vocal coach to help him mimic the 6-foot-3, 300-pound Wallace’s every nuance and tic.

In interviews, Woolard has said that people who knew Wallace – including Sean “Puffy” Combs – found the resemblance so uncanny they had to leave the set.