The second time I went to jail, I was like, ‘Okay, this is not the move.’
THE NOTORIOUS B.I.G.Every true hustler knows that you cannot hustle forever. You will go to jail eventually.
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Damn right I like the life I live, because I went from negative to positive.
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Birthdays was the worst days, now we sip champagne when we thirsty.
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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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I can’t even see me wasting my time or my talent to disrespect another black man.
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Growing up in the streets of Bed-Stuy, it was hard, yo.
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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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My real life helped me sell a lot of records.
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I’m definitely a writer. I don’t even know how to freestyle.
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In South Africa, they think we’re pygmies!
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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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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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As I open my eyes and realizing I changed. Not the same deranged child stuck up in the game.
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We can’t change the world unless we change ourselves.
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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.
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I grew up in some suburb, I’d come out with a song about potholes in my lawn.
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