You know very well who you are, don’t let em hold you down, reach for the stars.
THE NOTORIOUS B.I.G.I’m making music for the people. If y’all love the music, y’all gonna buy the music.
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I’m definitely a writer. I don’t even know how to freestyle.
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I definitely wouldn’t wish death on anyone.
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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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Growing up in the streets of Bed-Stuy, it was hard, yo.
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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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In South Africa, they think we’re pygmies!
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I can’t never stop nobody, can’t knock nobody hustle.
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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’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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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.’
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As I leave my competition respirator style, climb the ladder to success escalator style.
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I wonder if I died, would tears come to her eyes? Forgive me for my disrespect, forgive me for my lies.
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You gotta mature, you know.
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We can’t change the world unless we change ourselves.
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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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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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Birthdays was the worst days, now we sip champagne when we thirsty.
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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. Now we just chill in the house. There are a lot of times when we want to go out, but we just don’t.
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Every true hustler knows that you cannot hustle forever. You will go to jail eventually.
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My real life helped me sell a lot of records.
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The second time I went to jail, I was like, ‘Okay, this is not the move.’
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Damn right I like the life I live, because I went from negative to positive.
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Never get high on your own supply.
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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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Please don’t hate me because I’m beautiful.
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I hold grudges, but I can’t hate nobody; that’s not my nature.
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