I listen to a lot of Biggie, he's so lyrical.

There will never be another Biggie ever again.

I listened to Tupac and a lot of Biggie Smalls.

Jay Z wasn't great when 2pac and Biggie was alive.

My dad did not play Biggie or Tupac, so I had never heard it.

Being compared to Biggie, that's the best feeling a rapper could have

I'm a ride or die Biggie fan. I've come out to 'Victory' so many times.

I highly respect Eminem. I rank him up there with Jay Z, Biggie and Nas.

I'm a California guy, but in my opinion I think Biggie is the best rapper.

I'm better than Tupac and Biggie. I say that so now you know where my head at.

I'm a big fan of all styles, even Biggie and Wu-Tang, but I gotta do my thing.

Biggie is my favorite rapper, for sure. No other artist has impacted me that much.

I have been a fan of Versace for so long, watching people like Biggie, Puff, Jay-Z.

Brandy is one of my favorite vocalists. Jay-Z is my favorite emcee outside of Biggie.

Biggie Smalls, Jay-Z, Nas, Eminem, Big L, Tupac. That was, like, my top five, generally.

For me, I put Mac Dre right up there with Biggie and 'Pac as legends who have since passed on.

Tupac, Biggie, Jay. Your usual suspects. These were the people that was played in my household.

I listen to a lot of music, and I listen to some rap, and I do like listening to Biggie Smalls.

How many niggas want to be involved, see I was only talking Biggie, but I'll kill all of y'all.

Once you get the hang of how all this works, it's no biggie. It's baseball, man. It's baseball.

No rapper in the world from Jay-Z to Tupac to Biggie has 100 percent love on everything they do.

If Elvis is alive, Tupac is alive. I saw Tupac on 46th Street selling Biggie t-shirts 2 for 10 dollars.

A lot of Friday nights, Guru and I would go kick it with Biggie, since he was just three blocks down from us.

I like Biggie. Like 'Pac, he was one of the best rappers in the business. Why would I try to do something to him?

My favorite rappers are a lot of other people's favorite rappers. I love Jay Z, Kanye, 2Pac, Biggie, old Mos Def.

Biggie has been the logo for success, the logo for doing it big - from popping champagne, the ladies, the fashion.

Let's say honorary favorite New Yorker is John Lennon, and favorite real New Yorker is Biggie, because he's the best.

I wanna thank Biggie Smalls, Redman, Jadakiss, Tupac and Michael Jackson for being my theme music throughout my career.

There's four biggies. There was Elizabeth I, George III, Victoria, and the current queen, who really dominated four eras.

I honestly feel that because Steve has passed, you know, it's like when Biggie passed and Jay-Z was allowed to become Jay-Z.

I had to tell the city that 2Pac passed, and I had to be on the radio early after Biggie passed. Those were awful, emotional.

Biggie and Big Pun were the best storytellers of the '90s. I would get wrapped up in the narrative of what they were talking about.

When you go back and really listen to the legendary rappers, this is timeless music. Guys like Biggie, guys like Pac, timeless music.

For those from my era, my age, that 2Pac vs. Biggie war will go on forever about who is the greatest. But I was more of a Biggie dude.

I guess this year I'm going to find out if I'm good enough or not. If I'm not, I don't care. I'll do something else, it's not a biggie.

I was a big hip hop girl, and still am, I listened to artists like Wu Tang, and K'Naan, but I was a particular fan of Biggie and Tupac.

I don't love all hip-hop, but I do relate to stuff like early Nas, 2Pac, Biggie, and MF Doom because they're also trying to escape a scenario.

With 'Ready to Die,' that was some of the most honest rhymes of all-time. There's some real dark material on there that Biggie was going through.

There is some gangsta music I like, like Biggie Smalls - he reminds me of Slick Rick -doing the same thing, but he did it in a really artistic way.

I grew up part of the MTV generation. I saw Biggie Smalls and Jay-Z on TV and I thought: 'Wow, look at these powerful black people.' I wanted that.

When Wu-Tang came, Wu-Tang was for that era, right there. When Dre had it in the West Coast, it was for that time. Biggie and them, it was for that time.

There was a lot they didn’t tell you about death, she had discovered, and one of the biggies was how long it took the ones you loved most to die in your heart.

Rap to me is a modern blues. But until we really confront the truth, we are going to have a Tupac or Eminem or Biggie Smalls to remind us about it - and thank God.

I had a lot of respect for Biggie, and it was just a weird, kinda difficult thing. When I'm doing touchy interviews like that, I just try to be fair to both parties.

Everyone uses grime as a footstool, but imagine Biggie Smalls started doing hip hop, and it started going well, and then he started making RnB: there would be no hip hop!

Jay Z and Biggie and Nas always listened to my direction. They listened and they applied it and I also listened to their opinions and that's why the records came out so good.

As with all the other rappers I've worked with, Biggie and I shared common ground. Even though Biggie grew up in Brooklyn and I grew up in Chicago, we came from the same 'hood.

I grew up listening to a lot of 2Pac and a lot of East Coast, West Coast rap; Bad Boy, Lil Kim, Foxy Brown, Biggie, 2Pac. Super hip-hop, super listening to that raw era of music.

I think people that came out originally, like 2Pac, Biggie, Snoop Dogg,, and even T.I. and Ludacris, they were original with their vibe, but at the same time, they were classics.

Biggie has definitely stood the test of time. He's the reason Jay-Z and loads of other rappers are who they are. His flow and wordplay is brilliant - the stories he would tell are just nuts.

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