100 Biggie Smalls Quotes & Sayings (The Notorious B.I.G. Quotes)

“Catch me if you can like the gingerbread man.” – Biggie Smalls, Song: Everyday Struggle, Album: Ready To Die

“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.’” – Biggie Smalls

“Lyrically, I’m supposed to represent.” – Biggie Smalls, Song: One More Chance, Album: Ready To Die

“If you can make it through the night, there’s a brighter day.” – Biggie Smalls

“Sicker than your average.” – Biggie Smalls, Song: Hypnotize, Album: Life After Death

“We can’t change the world unless we change ourselves.” – Biggie Smalls

“Don’t ask me.I went from ashy, to nasty, to classy.” – Biggie Smalls, Song: My Downfall, Album: Life After Death

“96 is the year of love. We all need to pull together.” – Biggie Smalls

“Drink some coffee. Put on some gangsta rap and handle it.” – Biggie Smalls

“Take a better stand. Put money in my mom’s hand. Get my daughter this college plan, so she don’t need no man.” – Biggie Smalls, Song: Sky’s The Limit, Album: Life After Death

“Talk slick you get your next slit quick.” – Biggie Smalls, Song: Things Done Changed, Album: Ready to Die

“I can’t even see me wasting my time or my talent to disrespect another black man.” – Biggie Smalls

“As I open my eyes and realizing I changed. Not the same deranged child stuck up in the game.” – Biggie Smalls

“As I leave my competition respirator style, climb the ladder to success escalator style.” – Biggie Smalls, Song: You’re Nobody (Til Somebody Kills You), Album: Life After Death

“I don’t wanna live no more, sometimes I hear death knockin’ at my front door.” – Biggie Smalls, Song: Everyday Struggle, Album: Ready To Die

“I’m not a security-type person: I don’t want to have bodyguards around me. I’m not into all that.” – Biggie Smalls

“Every true hustler knows that you cannot hustle forever. You will go to jail eventually.” – Biggie Smalls

. “Stay far from timid, only make moves when your heart’s in it, and live the phrase ‘sky’s the limit.’” – Biggie Smalls, Song: Sky’s The Limit, Album: Life After Death

“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?”– Biggie Smalls

“Never lose, never choose to.” – Biggie Smalls, Song: Hypnotize, Album: Life After Death

“Life is a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.” – Biggie Smalls

“I love it when you call me Big Poppa.” – Biggie Smalls, Song: Big Poppa, Album: Ready to Die

“I grew up a screw up, got introduced to the game, got a ounce and blew up.” – Biggie Smalls, Song: Grew Up A Screw Up, Album: Release Therapy

“Super Nintendo Sega Genesis, when I was dead broke, man I couldn’t picture this.” – Biggie Smalls, Song: Juicy, Album: Ready To Die

“What happens on that corner happens on every corner.” – Biggie Smalls

“Who wants to be a shadow for the rest of their life?” – Biggie Smalls

“We ain’t trying to fail in this game. We trying to succeed.” – Biggie Smalls

“I hold grudges, but I can’t hate nobody; that’s not my nature.” – Biggie Smalls

“I can’t even say Puff and me are like brothers, ’cause we closer than that.” – Biggie Smalls

“Even when I was wrong, I got my point across.” – Biggie Smalls, Song: Sky’s The Limit, Album: Life After Death

“As I open my eyes and realizing I changed. Not the same deranged child stuck up in the game.” – Biggie Smalls, Song: Respect, Album: Ready to Die

“You know very well who you are, don’t let em hold you down, reach for the stars.” – Biggie Smalls, Song: Juicy, Album: Ready To Die

“I can’t never stop nobody, can’t knock nobody hustle.” – Biggie Smalls

“The mo’ money you make, the mo’ problems you get.” – Biggie Smalls

“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’.” – Biggie Smalls

“If Faith had twins, she’d probably have two Pacs, Get it, Tu-Pac’s?” – Biggie Smalls

“To all the ladies in the place with style and grace. Allow me to lace these lyrical douches in your bushes. Who rock grooves and make moves with all the mamis?” – Biggie Smalls, Song: Big Poppa, Album: Ready to Die

“My real life helped me sell a lot of records.” – Biggie Smalls

“I never thought it could happen, this rappin’ stuff.” – Biggie Smalls, Song: Juicy, Album: Ready To Die

“The second time I went to jail, I was like, ‘okay, this is not the move.’” – Biggie Smalls

“Pac get busy. People can’t take nothing from him. On the lyrics, he get busy, straight up.”– Biggie Smalls

“I would never wish death on nobody, ’cause there ain’t no coming back from that.” – Biggie Smalls, Song: Runnin’ (Dying to Live), Album: Tupac: Resurrection

“If the game shakes me or breaks me, I hope it makes me a better man.” – Biggie Smalls, Song: Sky’s The Limit, Album: Life After Death

“I’m definitely a writer. I don’t even know how to freestyle.”– Biggie Smalls

“So I just speak my piece, keep my peace.” – Biggie Smalls, Song: Hypnotize, Album: Life After Death

“If you feel like it’s something you don’t have to do, you really have to question it.” – Biggie Smalls

“Live the phrase sky’s the limit.” – Biggie Smalls, Song: Sky’s The Limit, Album: Life After Death

“I’ve been in the game for years, it made me an animal. It’s rules to this, I wrote me a manual. A step by step booklet for you to get, your game on track, not your wig pushed back.” – Biggie Smalls, Song: Ten Crack Commandments, Album: Life After Death

“Biggie Smalls is the illest. Your style is played out, like Arnold wondered, ‘What you talkin bout Willis?’.” – Biggie Smalls, Song: The What, Album: Ready To Die

“Damn right I like the life I live, because I went from negative to positive.” – Biggie Smalls, Song: Juicy

“Get my daughter this college grant so she don’t need no man” – Biggie Smalls, Song: Thomas the Dank Engine (SFM Music Video)

“Never let them know your next move. Don’t you know Bad Boys move in silence and violence?” – Biggie Smalls, Song: Ten Crack Commandments, Album: Life After Death

“Birthdays was the worst days, now we sip champagne when we thirsty.” – Biggie Smalls, Song: Juicy, Album: Ready To Die

“I’m blowing up like you thought I would/Call the crib, same number, same hood, it’s all good.” – Biggie Smalls

“If you got a little something you know how to do, progress at it, keep trying, you know God knows what could happen.” – Biggie Smalls

“You never thought that hip hop would take it this far.” – Biggie Smalls

“If you don’t love yourself, I’ll make you see your own heart.” – Biggie Smalls, Song: I’m With Whateva, Album: Duets: The Final Chapter

“This rule is so underrated: Keep your family and business completely separated.” – Biggie Smalls” – Biggie Smalls, Song: Ten Crack Commandments, Album: Life After Death

“All I know is gold and platinum, and I want to be platinum.”– Biggie Smalls

“I don’t chase em I replace em and if I’m caressing em I;m undressing em.” – Biggie Smalls, Song: One More Chance, Album: Ready To Die

“Never let no one know how much dough you hold.” – Biggie Smalls, Song: Ten Crack Commandments, Album: Life After Death

“You gotta mature, you know.” – Biggie Smalls

“Everything you get, ya gotta work hard for it.” – Biggie Smalls, Song: The What, Album: Ready To Die

“If you didn’t know, now you now.” – Biggie Smalls

“The streets is a short stop. Either you’re slinging crack rock or you got a wicked jump shot.” – Biggie Smalls, Song: Things Done Changed, Album: Ready to Die

“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.” – Biggie ...

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“It’s all good baby, baby.” – Biggie Smalls, Song: Juicy, Album: Ready To Die

“Sticks and stones may break bones, but the Gat will kill you quicker.” – Biggie Smalls

“I’m a nice guy, but the fear keeps everybody on their toes. People sometimes mistake sweetness for weakness.” – Biggie Smalls

“I found something I was good at, I’m just trying to flip it, keep it going. I ain’t trying to slack at all.” – Biggie Smalls

“I got a lawyer to watch my lawyer.” – Biggie Smalls

“It was all a dream.” – Biggie Smalls, Song: Juicy, Album: Ready To Die

“The hustlers on the corner were my role models.”– Biggie Smalls

“I spit phrases that’ll thrill you, your nobody ’till someone kills you.” – Biggie Smalls

“You’re mad cause my style you’re admiring. Don’t be mad,ups is hiring.” – Biggie Smalls, Song: Flava in Ya Ear (Remix), Album: Hip Hop Basics Vol. 3 : Golden Years (Ep.2) 1993-1997

“Keep trying. Persistence and consistency is the best thing. As long as you keeping it real, and you keep trying, keep banging that wall and it will fall.” – Biggie Smalls

“To all the teachers that told me I’d never amount to nothing.” – Biggie Smalls

“Considered a fool ’cause I dropped out of high school. Stereotypes of a black male misunderstood.” – Biggie Smalls, Song: Juicy, Album: Ready To Die

“I’m living everyday like a hustle, another drug to juggle. Another day, another struggle.” – Biggie Smalls, Song: Everyday Struggle, Album: Ready To Die

“I’m making music for the people. If y’all love the music, y’all gonna buy the music.”– Biggie Smalls

“Honeys wanna chat, but all we wanna know is where the party at?” – Biggie Smalls, Song: Lean Back Remix

“It’s like the more money we come across / the more problems we see.” – Biggie Smalls, Song: Mo Money Mo Problems, Album: Life After Death

“I grew up in some suburb, I’d come out with a song about potholes in my lawn.” – Biggie Smalls

“If you hear something about somebody, don’t be so quick to be like, I don’t like him. Try to find out what’s going on.” – Biggie Smalls

“A strong word called consignment strictly for live men, not for freshmen, if you ain’t got the clientele say “hell no!” ‘Cause they gon’ want they money, rain, sleet, hail, snow.” – Biggie Smalls, Song: Ten Crack Commandments, Album: Life After Death

“Now I’m in the limelight ’cause I rhyme tight.” – Biggie Smalls, Song Lyrics: Juicy

“Please don’t hate me because I’m beautiful baby.” – Biggie Smalls, Song Lyrics: Playa Hater,

“Spread love, it’s the Brooklyn way.” – Biggie Smalls, Song: Juicy, Album: Ready To Die

“Never get high on your own supply.” – Biggie Smalls, Song: Ten Crack Commandments, Album: Life After Death

“Yes it’s me, the B.I.G / Competition ripper ever since 13″– Biggie Smalls

“Learn to treat life to the best, put stress to rest.” – Biggie Smalls, Song: Respect, Album: Ready to Die

“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.’” – Biggie Smalls

“I wanted to get in the game and get the big house and the cars, and with the pool. I wanted to do all that.” – Biggie Smalls

“I can’t rhyme about being broke no more, I ain’t broke, I can’t rhyme about hustling in the streets no more cause I don’t hustle no more, you know, so it’s the life after. All that’s over with now, I ain’t hungry no more. Now it’s a new beginning, this the life after the death.” – Biggie Smalls

“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.” – Biggie Smalls

“Excellence is my presence, never tense, never hesitant.” – Biggie Smalls, Song: Victory (By Diddy & The Family), Album: No Way Out

“You never want anyone to know everything about you. It makes you too easy to classify.”– Biggie Smalls

“Whatever you’re going to do, just do it for a reason. You know what I’m saying. Don’t be a fool and just sit back and do it because somebody else is doing it.” – Biggie Smalls

“I gotta stay on a positive vibe. All my peoples gotta stay on a positive vibe, you know? The negativity just brings failure.” – Biggie Smalls

“I wonder if I died, would tears come to her eyes? Forgive me for my disrespect, forgive me for my lies.” – Biggie Smalls, Song: Suicidal Thoughts, Album: Ready To Die