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.’
THE NOTORIOUS B.I.G.The second time I went to jail, I was like, ‘Okay, this is not the move.’
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I can’t never stop nobody, can’t knock nobody hustle.
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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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I’m making music for the people. If y’all love the music, y’all gonna buy the music.
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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’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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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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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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Birthdays was the worst days, now we sip champagne when we thirsty.
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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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I grew up in some suburb, I’d come out with a song about potholes in my lawn.
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The second time I went to jail, I was like, ‘Okay, this is not the move.’
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I’m living everyday like a hustle, another drug to juggle. Another day, another struggle.
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I hold grudges, but I can’t hate nobody; that’s not my nature.
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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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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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My real life helped me sell a lot of records.
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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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We can’t change the world unless we change ourselves.
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I’m definitely a writer. I don’t even know how to freestyle.
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Learn to treat life to the best, put stress to rest.
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I definitely wouldn’t wish death on anyone.
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Never get high on your own supply.
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Growing up in the streets of Bed-Stuy, it was hard, yo.
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As I leave my competition respirator style, climb the ladder to success escalator style.
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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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