The Notorious B.I.G

While your guns raisin', mine is blazin'.

— The Notorious B.I.G

In South Africa, they think we're pygmies!

— The Notorious B.I.G

I'm lonely! I'm bored!

— The Notorious B.I.G

Get ready to die, tell God I say hi.

— The Notorious B.I.G

Play the charts like the Beatles.

— The Notorious B.I.G

Climb the ladder to success escalator style

— The Notorious B.I.G

Mariah Carey is kinda scary.

— The Notorious B.I.G

I definitely wouldn't wish death on anyone.

— The Notorious B.I.G

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

— The Notorious B.I.G

The hustlers on the corner were my role models.

— The Notorious B.I.G

I'm trying to get other niggas off the streets.

— The Notorious B.I.G

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

— The Notorious B.I.G

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

— The Notorious B.I.G

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

— The Notorious B.I.G

My real life helped me sell a lot of records.

— 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

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

With big folks, either people think you look mean or it's more of a jolly Santa Claus, 'Oh, he's just a pudgy…

— 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

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

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

— The Notorious B.I.G

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…

— The Notorious B.I.G

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

Sky is the limit and you know that you keep on, Just keep on pressin on. Sky is the limit and you…

— The Notorious B.I.G

Everything was happening on that strip of Fulton Street. And if I wanted Chinese food, if I wanted to play video games,…

— The Notorious B.I.G

Going shopping all the time. Just making money, and competing with the niggas in other neighborhoods. And the whole competition with the…

— The Notorious B.I.G

I married her after knowing her eight days, and I was happy. That was my baby. At the same time, with us…

— The Notorious B.I.G

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

— 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

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…

— 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

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

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

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

Armed and dangerous, ain't too many can bang with us Straight up weed no angel dust, label us Notorious Thug ass niggaz…

— The Notorious B.I.G

Spread love, it's the Brooklyn way.

— The Notorious B.I.G

Revenge be the dish I serve to cats cold.

— The Notorious B.I.G

You're nobody 'til somebody kills you.

— The Notorious B.I.G

Blowin' up is nothing to me.

— The Notorious B.I.G

Mo' money, mo' problems.

— The Notorious B.I.G