1. “I’m making music for the people. If y’all love the music, y’all gonna buy the music.” – The Notorious B.I.G.
2. “I’m living everyday like a hustle. Another drug to juggle. Another day, another struggle.” – The Notorious B.I.G.
3. “Forgive me for my disrespect, forgive me for my lies.” – The Notorious B.I.G.
4. “I’m making music for the people. If y’all love the music, y’all gonna buy the music.” – The Notorious B.I.G.
5. “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.’” – The Notorious B.I.G.
6. “It’s like the more money we come across / the more problems we see.” – The Notorious B.I.G.
7. “I can’t stop nobody, can’t knock nobody hustle.” – The Notorious B.I.G.
8. “You gotta mature, you know.” – The Notorious B.I.G.
9. “I’m definitely a writer. I don’t even know how to freestyle.” – The Notorious B.I.G.
10. “I never thought it could happen, this rappin stuff.” – The Notorious B.I.G.
11. “Play the charts like the Beatles.” – The Notorious B.I.G.
12. “As soon as she hit the door we start blastin’, I saw her brains hit the floor, raw laughin’.” – The Notorious B.I.G.
13. “I never wish death on nobody, cause there ain’t coming back from that.” – The Notorious B.I.G.
14. “First comes the cash, then comes the ass, then come big blunts with chunks of hash.” – The Notorious B.I.G.
15. “Never lose, never choose to.” – The Notorious B.I.G.
16. “Never let no one know how much dough you hold.” – The Notorious B.I.G.
17. “Never get high on your own supply.” – The Notorious B.I.G.
18. “I’m living everyday like a hustle. Another drug to juggle. Another day, another struggle.” – The Notorious B.I.G.
19. “Revenge be the dish I serve to cats cold.” – The Notorious B.I.G.
20. “Spread love, it’s the Brooklyn way.” – The Notorious B.I.G.
21. “Stop, look, listen. I spit on your grave, then I grab my Charles Dickens.” – The Notorious B.I.G.
22. “If I grew up in some suburb, I’d come out with a song about potholes in my lawn.” – The Notorious B.I.G.
23. “I hold grudges, but I can’t hate nobody; that’s not my nature.” – The Notorious B.I.G.
24. “Relax and take notes while I take tokes of the marijuana smoke.” – The Notorious B.I.G.
25. “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.
26. “She used my toothbrush to clean the toilet.” – The Notorious B.I.G.
27. “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’.” – The Notorious B.I.G.
28. “What happens on that corner happens on every corner.” – The Notorious B.I.G.
29. “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.
30. “We aren’t trying to fail in this game. We are trying to succeed.” – The Notorious B.I.G.
31. “Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis. When I was dead broke, man, I couldn’t picture this.” – The Notorious B.I.G.
32. “You know very well who you are, don’t let them hold you down, reach for the stars.” – The Notorious B.I.G.
33. “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.
34. “Sticks and stones may break bones, but the Gat will kill you quicker.” – The Notorious B.I.G.
35. “You’re nobody ’til somebody kills you.” – The Notorious B.I.G.
36. “Never trust nobody, your moms will set your ass up.” – The Notorious B.I.G.
37. “To all the teachers that told me I’d never amount to nothing.” – The Notorious B.I.G.
38. “Every true hustler knows that you cannot hustle forever. You will go to jail eventually.” – The Notorious B.I.G.
39. “If the game shakes me or breaks me, I hope it makes me a better man.” – The Notorious B.I.G.
40. “This rule is so underrated: Keep your family and business completely separated.” – The Notorious B.I.G.
41. “My real life helped me sell a lot of records.” – The Notorious B.I.G.
42. “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.” – The Notorious B.I.G.
43. “Keep trying. Persistence and consistency is the best thing. As long as you keep it real, and you keep trying, keep banging that wall and it will fall.” – The Notorious B.I.G.
44. “If you don’t love yourself, I’ll make you see your own heart.” – The Notorious B.I.G.
45. “Get ready to die, tell God I say hi.” – The Notorious B.I.G.
46. “The green tempts me to make the rich the enemy, and take their cheese.” – The Notorious B.I.G.
47. “Move over Lucifer, I’m more ruthless, leave you toothless.” – The Notorious B.I.G.
48. “I found something I was good at, I’m just trying to flip it, and keep it going. I aren’t trying to slack off at all.” – The Notorious B.I.G.
49. “While your guns raisin’, mine is blazin’.” – The Notorious B.I.G.
50. “We be tight like frogs ass.” – The Notorious B.I.G.
51. “We can’t change the world until we change ourselves.” – The Notorious B.I.G.
52. “The second time I went to jail, I was like, ‘Okay, this is not the move.’” – The Notorious B.I.G.
53. “Even when I was wrong, I got my point across.” – The Notorious B.I.G.
54. “If you got a little something you know how to do, progress at it, keep trying, you know God knows what could happen.” – The Notorious B.I.G.
55. “Excellence is my presence, never tense, never hesitant.” – The Notorious B.I.G.
56. “I’m lonely! I’m bored!” – The Notorious B.I.G.
57. “Climb the ladder to success escalator style.” – The Notorious B.I.G.
58. “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.
59. “Never let them know your next move.” – The Notorious B.I.G.
60. “I’m a thug, but I swear for three days I cried.” – The Notorious B.I.G.
61. “I can’t even say Puff and me are like brothers, ’cause we closer than that.” – The Notorious B.I.G.
62. “I’m trying to get other niggas off the streets.” – The Notorious B.I.G.
63. “I grew up in some suburb, I’d come out with a song about potholes in my lawn.” – The Notorious B.I.G.
64. “Growing up in the streets of Bed-Stuy, it was hard, yo.” – The Notorious B.I.G.
65. “I can’t never stop nobody, can’t knock nobody hustle.” – The Notorious B.I.G.
66. “And everything you get, ya gotta work hard for it.” – The Notorious B.I.G.
67. “Forgive me for my disrespect, forgive me for my lies.” – The Notorious B.I.G.