The Notorious B.I.G., Biggie Smalls, or simply Biggie, was an American rapper and songwriter. Rooted in the New York rap scene and gangsta rap traditions, he is widely considered one of the greatest rappers of all time. These Notorious BIG quotes will motivate you.
Best Notorious BIG Quotes
- “We can’t change the world until we change ourselves.” ~ The Notorious B.I.G.
- “Excellence is my presence. Never tense, never hesitant.” ~ The Notorious B.I.G.
- “Never let them know your next move.” ~ 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.
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“Damn right I like the life I live, Cause I went from negative to positive.” ~ The Notorious B.I.G.
- “First comes the cash, then comes the ass, then come big blunts with chunks of hash.” ~ 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.
- “You’re nobody ’til somebody kills you.” ~ The Notorious B.I.G.
- “Sky is the limit and you know that you keep on,
Just keep on pressing on.
Sky is the limit and you know that you can have
what you want, be what you want.” ~ The Notorious B.I.G. -
“Never let anyone know how much dough you hold.” ~ The Notorious B.I.G.
- “Move over Lucifer, I’m more ruthless, leave you toothless.” ~ The Notorious B.I.G.
- “I’m living every day like a hustle. Another drug to juggle. Another day, another struggle.” ~ The Notorious B.I.G.
- “Even when I was wrong, I got my point across.” ~ The Notorious B.I.G.
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“Climb the ladder to success escalator style” ~ The Notorious B.I.G.
- “If you don’t love yourself, I’ll make you see your own heart.” ~ The Notorious B.I.G.
- “The hustlers on the corner were my role models.” ~ The Notorious B.I.G.
- “To all the teachers that told me I’d never amount to nothing.” ~ The Notorious B.I.G.
- “This rule is so underrated:
Keep your family and business completely separated.” ~ The Notorious B.I.G. -
“And everything you get, ya gotta work hard for it.” ~ 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 that love to bust, it’s strange to us
Y’all niggaz 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. - “Spread love, it’s the Brooklyn way.” ~ The Notorious B.I.G.
- “I never wish death on nobody, cause there ain’t coming back from that.” ~ The Notorious B.I.G.
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“It’s like the more money we come across / the more problems we see.” ~ The Notorious B.I.G.
- “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 BIG quotes - “What happens on that corner happens on every corner.” ~ The Notorious B.I.G.
- “While your guns raisin’, mine is blazin’.” ~ The Notorious B.I.G.
- “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. - “Never trust nobody, your moms will set your ass up.” ~ The Notorious B.I.G.
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“Get ready to die, tell God I say hi.” ~ The Notorious B.I.G.
- “Forgive me for my disrespect, forgive me for my lies.” ~ The Notorious B.I.G.
- “Never get high on your own supply.” ~ The Notorious B.I.G.
- “Mo’ money, mo’ problems.” ~ 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 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.
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“Relax and take notes while I take tokes of the marijuana smoke” ~ 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 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.
- “Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis. When I was dead broke, man, I couldn’t picture this.” ~ The Notorious B.I.G.
- “There’s gonna be a lot of slow singing and flower bringing
If my burglar alarm starts ringing” ~ The Notorious B.I.G. - “Lyrically I’m supposed to represent,
I’m not only the client, I’m the player president” ~ The Notorious B.I.G. - “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. - “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. -
“When I release, you loose teeth.” ~ The Notorious B.I.G.
- “Sticks and stones may break bones, but the Gat will kill you quicker.” ~ 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 more skins than Idaho potato” ~ The Notorious B.I.G.
- “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.
- “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. -
“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.
- “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.
- “Your reign on the top was short like leprechauns,
As I crush so-called Willies, thugs, and rapper-dons.” ~ 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 at night she would go to night school and then come in and go to sleep. So she would never watch the news and stuff like that and she didn’t know what crack was. She didn’t know nothing about it, but when I told her I was selling crack, she threatened to kick me out of the house. And then I just started paying for stuff – paying her bills and giving her money, so she’d just tell me to be careful because there was nothing she could do to stop it.” ~ The Notorious B.I.G.
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“Rappin bout blunts and broads, Tits and bras, ménage à trois, sex in expensive cars.” ~ The Notorious B.I.G.
- “I’m trying to get other niggas off the streets.” ~ The Notorious B.I.G.
- “You’re either slangin’ crack rock, or you got a wicked jumpshot.” ~ 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 lonely! I’m bored!” ~ The Notorious B.I.G.
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“My real-life helped me sell a lot of records.” ~ The Notorious B.I.G.
- “All I know is gold and platinum, and I want to be platinum.” ~ The Notorious B.I.G.
- “I can hear sweat trickling down your cheek
Your heartbeat sound like Sasquatch feet
Thundering, shaking the concrete.” ~ The Notorious B.I.G. - “The lesson from the smith and Wesson is depressin’.” ~ The Notorious B.I.G.
- “She used my toothbrush to clean the toilet.” ~ The Notorious B.I.G.
- “Play the charts like the Beatles.” ~ The Notorious B.I.G.
- “I can’t stop nobody, can’t knock nobody hustle.” ~ The Notorious B.I.G.
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“Revenge be the dish I serve to cats cold.” ~ The Notorious B.I.G.
- “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. - “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.” ~ 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.
