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I never wish death on nobody, cause there ain't coming back from that.
Naahhh... I don't like KRS no more 'cause he just think he's too dope.
The green tempts me to make the rich the enemy, and take their cheese.
The second time I went to jail, I was like, 'okay, this is not the move.'
Damn right I like the life I live, Cause I went from negative to positive.
I can't even say Puff and me are like brothers, 'cause we closer than that.
I grew up in some suburb, I'd come out with a song about potholes in my lawn.
This rule is so underrated: Keep your family and business completely separated.
I can't even see me wasting my time or my talent to disrespect another black man.
Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis. When I was dead broke, man, I couldn't picture this.
First comes the cash, then comes the ass, then come big blunts with chunks of hash.
Rappin bout blunts and broads, Tits and bras, ménage à trois, sex in expensive cars.
I'm making music for the people. If y'all love the music, y'all gonna buy the music.
Lyrically I'm supposed to represent, I'm not only the client, I'm the player president
My mind's my 9, my pen's my Mac-10. My target? All you wack niggaz who started rappin'.
Every true hustler knows that you cannot hustle forever. You will go to jail eventually.
I'm living everyday like a hustle. Another drug to juggle. Another day, another struggle.
Pac get busy. People can't take nothing from him. On the lyrics, he get busy, straight up.
As soon as she hit the door we start blastin', I saw her brains hit the floor, raw laughin'.
There's gonna be a lot of slow singing and flower bringing If my burglar alarm starts ringing
I'm slamming n***as like Shaquille, s**t is real When it's time to eat a meal, I rob and steal
I'm not a security-type person: I don't want to have bodyguards around me. I'm not into all that.
I guess I was a combination of House of Pain and Bobby Brown: I was humpin' around and jumpin' around!
Stay far from timid only make moves when you're heart's in it, and live the phrase the sky's the limit.
Your reign on the top was short like leprechauns, As I crush so-called Willies, thugs, and rapper-dons.
I can hear sweat trickling down your cheek Your heartbeat sound like Sasquatch feet Thundering, shaking the concrete.
Rappers can't sleep, need sleepin', B.I.G. keep creepin', Bullets heat-seekin', Casualties need treatin', Dumb rappers need teachin'.
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.'
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
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'.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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 cleaned up my act, and I made this rap thing work for me. I thought people would respect me for that. But instead, it's, 'Oh, he's sold all these records, and now he thinks he's all that.'
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 in the house. There are a lot of times when we want to go out, but we just don't.
Everything was happening on that strip of Fulton Street. And if I wanted Chinese food, if I wanted to play video games, if I wanted pizza, if I had to go to the corner story for a juice, I had to go on Fulton Street.
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!
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.
Back in third grade, they used to say, 'Take whatever talent you have and think of something you can do with it.' I liked to draw, but what could I do with it? Maybe I could be an art dealer - nah, can't see myself doing that. Maybe I could do commercial arts?
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?
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
How real can your music be if you wake up in the morning hearing birds and crickets? I never hear birds when I wake up. Just a lot of construction work, the smell of Chinese takeout, children screaming, and everybody knocking a different track from 'Ready to Die' as they pass down the street.
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'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 married her after knowing her eight days, and I was happy. That was my baby. At the same time, with us being so spontaneous, we did it backwards. Maybe she won't admit it, but I will. We should have got to know each other and then got married. The relationship kind of dissolved, but we're still going to be friends. I love her.