“Who wants to be a shadow for the rest of their life?” – 63.
We all need to pull together.” – 38. Maybe I could be an art dealer – nah, can’t see myself doing that. “Basically, I wake up at nine o’clock in the morning, go to different record stores, go to the studio, think up different ideas for songs. All that’s over with now, I ain’t hungry no more. I wanted to do all that.” – 71.
Stay in your place" —The Notorious B.I.G. “I’m not a security-type person: I don’t want to have bodyguards around me. Now we sip champagne when we thirstay.” – 73. “I never thought it could happen, this rappin’ stuff.” – 28. "I go on and on and on and/Don't take them to the crib unless they bonin'/Easy, call em on the phone and/Platinum Chanel cologne and/I stay dressed to impress/Spark these bitches interest" —The Notorious B.I.G. "Spit your game, talk your shit/Grab your gat, call your clique/Squeeze your clip, hit the right one/Pass that weed, I got to light one/All them niggas, I got to fight one/All them hoes, I got to like one/Our situation is a tight one/What you gonna do: fight or run?" — The Notorious B.I.G.
Share. Dead it/You think a crackhead paying you back, shit forget it!/7: this rule is so underrated/Keep your family and business completely separated/Money and blood don't mix like two dicks and no bitch/Find yourself in serious shit/Number 8: never keep no weight on you!/Them cats that squeeze your guns can hold jums too" — The Notorious B.I.G. It makes you too easy to classify.”– 65. Will I diss him?" I don’t even know how to freestyle.”– 57. That's what these hoes yelling/I'm a pimp by blood, not relation/Y'all still chase 'em, I'll replace 'em" —The Notorious B.I.G.Lazy eye, I was high when they hit me/Took a few cats with me/Shit, I need the company/Apologies in order, to T'Yanna my daughter/If it was up to me you would be with me/Sorta like Daddy Dearest, my vision be the clearest/Silencers so you can't hear it/Competition still fear it, shit don't ask me/I went from ashy to nasty to classy, and still" —The Notorious B.I.G.
"That's when Ron vanished, came back, speaking Spanish/Lavish habits, two rings, twenty carats/He's a criminal, nigga made America's Most/Killed his baby mother brother, slit his throat/The nigga got bagged with the toast/Weeded, took it to trial, beat it/Now he feel he undefeated, he mean it/Nothing to lose, tattooed around his gun wounds/Everything to gain, embedded in his brain" —The Notorious B.I.G.
March 9, 2015. “I hold grudges, but I can’t hate nobody; that’s not my nature.” – 69. “The second time I went to jail, I was like, ‘okay, this is not the move.’” – 41.
“I gotta stay on a positive vibe. "To protect my position, my corner, my lair/While we out here, say the Hustlers Prayer/If the game shakes me or breaks me, I hope it makes me a better man, take a better stand/Put money in my mom's hand/Get my daughter this college grant so she don't need no man/Stay far from timid, only make moves when your heart's in it/And live the phrase "Sky's the limit" —The Notorious B.I.G. “Take a better stand. "/A fucking shame, dude's the lame, what's his name?/Dark-skin Jermaine, see what I mean?"
“If you feel like it’s something you don’t have to do, you really have to question it.” – 3. “I’m basically different things to different people. "A nigga never been as broke as me, I like that/When I was young I had two pair Lees/The pin stripes and the gray, the one I wore on Mondays and Wednesdays/While niggas flirt I'm sewing tigers on my shirts, and alligators/You want to see the inside, I see you later/Here comes the drama, oh/That's that nigga with the fake, blaow/Why you punch me in my face? “I found something I was good at, I’m just trying to flip it, keep it going. Just a lot of construction work, the smell of Chinese takeout, children screaming, and everybody knocking a different track from ‘Ready to Die’ as they pass down the street.” – 79.