The Notorious B.I.G. famous quotes

This rule is so underrated: Keep your family and business completely separated.
-- The Notorious B.I.G.

#Our Family #Underrated

If I wasn't in the rap game, I'd probably have a key knee-deep in the crack game. Because the streets is a short stop: Either you're slinging crack rock or you got a wicked jump shot.
-- The Notorious B.I.G.

#Rap #Rocks #Games

Climb the ladder to success escalator style
-- The Notorious B.I.G.

#Style #Ladders #Climbs

Excellence is my presence. Never tense, never hesitant.
-- The Notorious B.I.G.

#Excellence #Tense

Spread love, it's the Brooklyn way.
-- The Notorious B.I.G.

#Brooklyn #Way #Spread

If you don't love yourself, I'll make you see your own heart.
-- The Notorious B.I.G.

#Disappointment #Love You #Love Yourself

I mean even though we were going through our drama I would never wish death on nobody, you know what I'm sayin' Because there ain't no coming back from that
-- The Notorious B.I.G.

#Drama #Rap #Mean

I never wish death on nobody, cause there ain't coming back from that.
-- The Notorious B.I.G.

#Wish #Causes #Coming Back

There's gonna be a lot of slow singing and flower bringing If my burglar alarm starts ringing
-- The Notorious B.I.G.

#Flower #Rap #Hip Hop

The green tempts me to make the rich the enemy, and take their cheese.
-- The Notorious B.I.G.

#Enemy #Cheese #Green

Sticks and stones may break bones, but the Gat will kill you quicker.
-- The Notorious B.I.G.

#Games #May #Stones

I mean everything's a lot more smoother. It's just calm. IN the beginning, I had the typical attitude of a young rapper makin money... ya know I was the partyin guy... I was the guy wit the girls... all the extra that came wit the game...it's up to the artist to know when to say when. You can't live that kind of lifestyle forever. ...I learn from the other people's mistake. I know when to say no. You learn to make the right decisions and pick the right choices. That's all that's really changed.
-- The Notorious B.I.G.

#Girl #Attitude #Mistake

Stop, look, listen. I spit on your grave, then I grab my Charles Dickens.
-- The Notorious B.I.G.

#Looks #Graves #Spit

We be tight like frogs ass.
-- The Notorious B.I.G.

#Friendship #Frogs #Ass

Never trust nobody, your moms will set your ***** up.
-- The Notorious B.I.G.

#Family #Mom #Trust Nobody

The second time I went to jail, I was like, 'okay, this is not the move.'
-- The Notorious B.I.G.

#Moving #Jail #Okay

And everything you get, ya gotta work hard for it.
-- The Notorious B.I.G.

#Hard Work

Mariah Carey is kinda scary.
-- The Notorious B.I.G.

#Scary #Musical

Chaka, I know that ***** hairy. Sade, ooooh, I know that ***** tight.
-- The Notorious B.I.G.

#Musical #

I can't never stop nobody, can't knock nobody hustle.
-- The Notorious B.I.G.

#Hustle

I'm a thug, but I swear for three days I cried.
-- The Notorious B.I.G.

#Sadness #Thug #Three

First comes the cash, then comes the ass, then come big blunts with chunks of hash.
-- The Notorious B.I.G.

#Alcohol #Drug #Cash

Even when I was wrong, I got my point across.
-- The Notorious B.I.G.

#Politics

My real life helped me sell a lot of records.
-- The Notorious B.I.G.

#Real #Real Life #Records

Mo' money, mo' problems.
-- The Notorious B.I.G.

#Simplicity #Problem

Growing up in the streets of Bed-Stuy, it was hard, yo.
-- The Notorious B.I.G.

#Growing Up #Growing #Bed

Never get high on your own supply.
-- The Notorious B.I.G.

#Expression #Getting High

While your guns raisin', mine is blazin'.
-- The Notorious B.I.G.

#Revenge #Gun #Retribution

The lesson from the smith and wesson is depressin'.
-- The Notorious B.I.G.

#Revenge #Lessons #Retribution

She used my toothbrush to clean the toilet.
-- The Notorious B.I.G.

#Revenge #Toilets #Retribution

Revenge be the dish I serve to cats cold.
-- The Notorious B.I.G.

#Revenge #Cat #Cold

Forgive me for my disrespect, forgive me for my lies.
-- The Notorious B.I.G.

#Lying #Forgive Me #Disrespect

With big folks, either people think you look mean or it's more of a jolly Santa Claus, 'Oh, he's just a pudgy little teddy bear pillow.'
-- The Notorious B.I.G.

#Mean #Thinking #People

You're either slangin' crack rock, or you got a wicked jumpshot...
-- The Notorious B.I.G.

#Rap #Rocks #Wicked

Relax and take notes while I take tokes of the ***** smoke
-- The Notorious B.I.G.

#Weed #Marijuana #Smoking

Your reign on the top was short like leprechauns, As I crush so-called Willies, thugs, and rapper-dons.
-- The Notorious B.I.G.

#Crush #Rap #Thug

Won't cha...picture life as my wife, just think: Full length mink, fat X and O links, Bracelets to match, conversation was all that, Showed you the safe combinations and all that. Guess you could say you's the one I trusted... Who would ever think that you would spread like mustard?
-- The Notorious B.I.G.

#Rap #Thinking #Wife

My mind's my 9, my pen's my Mac-10. My target? All you wack ***** who started rappin'.
-- The Notorious B.I.G.

#Rap #Hip Hop #Mind

You and your friends...always together, No time for the B-I-G, so I'm O-U-T. The sex was great, but the headaches I can't take. I think I made a very big mistake.
-- The Notorious B.I.G.

#Sex #Mistake #Rap

I'm basically different things to different people. If it's a guy, I'm-a probably have my guard up because it's a street rule that when men come around that I don't know, I just immediately throw shade on them. But I don't associate with fellas all that much; if it's a girl - a beautiful girl - I be nice.
-- The Notorious B.I.G.

#Beautiful #Girl #Nice

Never let them know your next move.
-- The Notorious B.I.G.

#Moving #Next

Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis. When I was dead broke, man, I couldn't picture this.
-- The Notorious B.I.G.

#Men #Nintendo #Broke

When you read magazines and you see everybody having fun, you think, ‘okay, that’s where I want to be.’ But once you get in it and you achieve the success that you want, it seems like that’s where the player hating starts. You know that’s where everybody’s like, ‘Well it’s not all that
-- The Notorious B.I.G.

#Fun #Hate #Player

Armed and dangerous, ain't too many can bang with us Straight up weed no angel dust, label us Notorious Thug ***** ***** that love to bust, it's strange to us Y'all ***** be scramblin, gamblin Up in restaraunts with mandolins, and violins We just sittin here tryin to win, tryin not to sin High off weed and lots of gin So much smoke need oxygen, steadily countin them Benjamins
-- The Notorious B.I.G.

#Weed #Rap #Angel

Please, all you MCs out there, all you fans out there, don't think Big gonna make a record dissing 2Pac or the West Coast because it's not going down like that. I cant even see me wasting my time or my talent to disrespect another black man.
-- The Notorious B.I.G.

#Men #Thinking #Disrespect

I guess I was a combination of House of Pain and Bobby Brown: I was humpin' around and jumpin' around!
-- The Notorious B.I.G.

#Pain #Rap #Hip Hop

Sky is the limit and you know that you keep on, Just keep on pressin on. Sky is the limit and you know that you can have what you want, be what you want.
-- The Notorious B.I.G.

#Inspirational #Rap #Sky

Stay far from timid only make moves when you're heart's in it, and live the phrase the sky's the limit.
-- The Notorious B.I.G.

#Inspirational #Life #Moving

I'm slamming n***as like Shaquille, s**t is real When it's time to eat a meal, I rob and steal
-- The Notorious B.I.G.

#Real #Hip Hop #Meals

I'm living everyday like a hustle. Another drug to juggle. Another day, another struggle.
-- The Notorious B.I.G.

#Struggle #Drug #Everyday

Never let no one know how much dough you hold.
-- The Notorious B.I.G.

#Hip Hop #Dough

We can't change the world until we change ourselves.
-- The Notorious B.I.G.

#Hip Hop #World #Life Happiness

Old school new school need to learn though I burn baby, burn like Disco Inferno Burn slow like blunts with ya-yo Peel more skins than Idaho potato
-- The Notorious B.I.G.

#Weed #Baby #School

It's like the more money we come across / the more problems we see.
-- The Notorious B.I.G.

#Work #Problem #More Money

Play the charts like the Beatles.
-- The Notorious B.I.G.

#Play

When I release, you loose teeth.
-- The Notorious B.I.G.

#Teeth #Release #Egotism

Move over Lucifer, I'm more ruthless, leave you toothless.
-- The Notorious B.I.G.

#Moving #Evil #Lucifer

I can hear sweat trickling down your cheek Your heartbeat sound like Sasquatch feet Thundering, shaking the concrete.
-- The Notorious B.I.G.

#Rap #Sweat #Feet

You're nobody 'til somebody kills you.
-- The Notorious B.I.G.

#Rap

We used to fuss when the landlord dissed us No heat. Wonder why Christmas missed us Birthdays was the worst days Now we sip champagne when we thirst-ay.
-- The Notorious B.I.G.

#Rap #Heat #Wonder

Rappin bout blunts and broads, Tits and bras, ménage à trois, sex in expensive cars...
-- The Notorious B.I.G.

#Sex #Car #Hip Hop

Lyrically I'm supposed to represent, I'm not only the client, I'm the player president
-- The Notorious B.I.G.

#Player #Hip Hop #President

Birfdays was the worst days, Now we sip champagne when we thirstay uh
-- The Notorious B.I.G.

#Hip Hop #Champagne #Worst

Rappers can't sleep, need sleepin', B.I.G. keep creepin', Bullets heat-seekin', Casualties need treatin', Dumb rappers need teachin'.
-- The Notorious B.I.G.

#Rap #Sleep #Hip Hop

Damn right I like the life I live, Cause I went from negative to positive.
-- The Notorious B.I.G.

#Rap #Hip Hop #Causes

Get ready to die, tell God I say hi.
-- The Notorious B.I.G.

#Revenge #Retribution #Ready

To all the teachers that told me I'd never amount to nothing.
-- The Notorious B.I.G.

#Teacher

I'm making music for the people. If y'all love the music, y'all gonna buy the music.
-- The Notorious B.I.G.

#People

As soon as she hit the door we start blastin', I saw her brains hit the floor, raw laughin'.
-- The Notorious B.I.G.

#Revenge #Doors #Brain