I grew up in some suburb, I’d come out with a song about potholes in my lawn.
THE NOTORIOUS B.I.G.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’.
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You gotta mature, you know.
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Every true hustler knows that you cannot hustle forever. You will go to jail eventually.
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We can’t change the world unless we change ourselves.
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Stay far from timid, only make moves when your heart’s in it, and live the phrase ‘sky’s the limit.
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Learn to treat life to the best, put stress to rest.
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In South Africa, they think we’re pygmies!
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Growing up in the streets of Bed-Stuy, it was hard, yo.
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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.
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Take a better stand. Put money in my mom’s hand. Get my daughter this college plan, so she don’t need no man.
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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.’
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I hold grudges, but I can’t hate nobody; that’s not my nature.
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I’m not a security-type person: I don’t want to have bodyguards around me. I’m not into all that.
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If you don’t love yourself, I’ll make you see your own heart.
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I can’t even see me wasting my time or my talent to disrespect another black man.
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My real life helped me sell a lot of records.
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