The Notorious B.I.G

Won't cha...picture life as my wife, just think: Full length mink, fat X and O links, Bracelets to match, conversation was all…

— The Notorious B.I.G

Basically, I wake up at nine o'clock in the morning, go to different record stores, go to the studio, think up different…

— The Notorious B.I.G

Blowin' up is nothing to me.

— The Notorious B.I.G

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

— The Notorious B.I.G

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

— The Notorious B.I.G

Chaka, I know that pussy hairy. Sade, ooooh, I know that pussy tight.

— The Notorious B.I.G

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

'96 is the year of love. We all need to pull together.

— The Notorious B.I.G

In South Africa, they think we're pygmies!

— The Notorious B.I.G

My mind's my 9, my pen's my Mac-10. My target? All you wack niggaz who started rappin'.

— The Notorious B.I.G

The hustlers on the corner were my role models.

— The Notorious B.I.G

Old school new school need to learn though I burn baby, burn like Disco Inferno Burn slow like blunts with ya-yo Peel…

— The Notorious B.I.G

I heard about crack on the news and I was like, "Oh, that's what the niggas must be doing." And when I…

— The Notorious B.I.G

Get ready to die, tell God I say hi.

— The Notorious B.I.G

My mom is from Jamaica and she was going to school in the morning, and in the evening she was working, and…

— The Notorious B.I.G

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

— The Notorious B.I.G

I'm not a security-type person, I don't want to have bodyguards around me. I'm not into all that. Now we just chill…

— The Notorious B.I.G

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

— The Notorious B.I.G

I'm making music for the people. If y'all love the music, y'all gonna buy the music.

— The Notorious B.I.G

I mean everything's a lot more smoother. It's just calm. IN the beginning, I had the typical attitude of a young rapper…

— The Notorious B.I.G

When you read magazines and you see everybody having fun, you think, ‘okay, that’s where I want to be.’ But once you…

— The Notorious B.I.G

Spread love, it's the Brooklyn way.

— The Notorious B.I.G

You're nobody 'til somebody kills you.

— The Notorious B.I.G

While your guns raisin', mine is blazin'.

— The Notorious B.I.G

Please, all you MCs out there, all you fans out there, don't think Big gonna make a record dissing 2Pac or the…

— The Notorious B.I.G