The notorious b.i.g. quotes

It's like the more money we come across / the more problems we see.

Growing up in the streets of Bed-Stuy, it was hard, yo.

Revenge be the dish I serve to cats cold.

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.

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.

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

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?

Stay far from timid only make moves when you're heart's in it, and live the phrase the sky's the limit.

Never get high on your own supply.

Even when I was wrong, I got my point across.

Spread love, it's the Brooklyn way.

I'm lonely! I'm bored!

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

The hustlers on the corner were my role models.

What happens on that corner happens on every corner.

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

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

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

When I release, you loose teeth.

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

Lyrically I'm supposed to represent, I'm not only the client, I'm the player president

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

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.

My real life helped me sell a lot of records.

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.'

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

I never wish death on nobody, cause there ain't coming back from that.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

We be tight like frogs ass.

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!

You're nobody 'til somebody kills you.

Mo' money, mo' problems.

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

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'.

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.

I heard about crack on the news and I was like, "Oh, that's what the niggas must be doing." And when I kept coming outside, I was doing my own little jostlin' to get my money.

Climb the ladder to success escalator style

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

And everything you get, ya gotta work hard for it.

Play the charts like the Beatles.

Excellence is my presence. Never tense, never hesitant.

Never let them know your next move.

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

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

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

The lesson from the smith and wesson is depressin'.

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

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

To all the teachers that told me I'd never amount to nothing.

Blowin' up is nothing to me.

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

While your guns raisin', mine is blazin'.

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

You're either slangin' crack rock, or you got a wicked jumpshot.

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

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

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.

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

Mariah Carey is kinda scary.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

She used my toothbrush to clean the toilet.

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

The green tempts me to make the rich the enemy, and take their cheese.

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.

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

Never let no one know how much dough you hold.

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

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