The Notorious B.I.G. Quotes

Excellence is my presence. Never tense, never hesitant.

First comes the cash, then comes the ass, then come big blunts with chunks of hash.

Damn right I like the life I live, Cause I went from negative to positive.

Never let them know your next move.

If the game shakes me or breaks me, I hope it makes me a better man.

Climb the ladder to success escalator style

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.

Move over Lucifer, I'm more ruthless, leave you toothless.

This rule is so underrated: Keep your family and business completely separated.

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.

I'm living everyday like a hustle. Another drug to juggle. Another day, another struggle.

Never get high on your own supply.

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.

Never let no one know how much dough you hold.

Spread love, it's the Brooklyn way.

Never trust nobody, your moms will set your ass up.

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

Relax and take notes while I take tokes of the marijuana smoke

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?

Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis. When I was dead broke, man, I couldn't picture this.

Rappers can't sleep, need sleepin', B.

I.G. keep creepin', Bullets heat-seekin', Casualties need treatin', Dumb rappers need teachin'.

There's gonna be a lot of slow singing and flower bringing If my burglar alarm starts ringing

While your guns raisin', mine is blazin'.

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

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.

Rappin bout blunts and broads, Tits and bras, ménage à trois, sex in expensive cars.

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

Forgive me for my disrespect, forgive me for my lies.

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

Birfdays was the worst days, Now we sip champagne when we thirstay uh

Sticks and stones may break bones, but the Gat will kill you quicker.

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.

Revenge be the dish I serve to cats cold.

Get ready to die, tell God I say hi.

I mean, it's not just the rappers, you know what i'm saying? People want to attack anybody that's a large figure, you know what I'm saying? They did it to [Michael] Jordan, they did it to [Mike] Tyson, they did it to Bill Cosby, you know what I'm saying? They're gonna' attack you if you on top.

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.

I'm a thug, but I swear for three days I cried.

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. Just workin'.

All I know is gold and platinum, and I want to be platinum.

Going shopping all the time. Just making money, and competing with the niggas in other neighborhoods. And the whole competition with the girls - who had the prettiest girlfriend - and going partying. It was just on. It was fun!

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.'

We can't change the world until we change ourselves.

I can't never stop nobody, can't knock nobody hustle.

I guess I was a combination of House of Pain and Bobby Brown: I was humpin' around and jumpin' around!

What happens on that corner happens on every corner.

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

If you don't love yourself, I'll make you see your own heart.

I had gone to jail, but I wasn't gettin' locked up for drugs then.

I was gettin' locked up for guns. My moms kept finding guns and stuff in my room and she was gettin' more scared.

We be tight like frogs ass.