The Notorious B.I.G. Quotes

As long as there's a demand for gangsta rap, it will be supplied.

Thug Life to me is dead.

Biggie was the King Of New York as a rapper. There's a lot more dangerous guys than Biggie Smalls out there, you know what I'm saying? John Gotti was way closer to King Of New York than him.

Niggas is decaf, I stick 'em for the C.R.E.A.M.

Me, myself, I was a part of gang bangin', you know what I'm sayin'?

I'm huge into '90s rap. It's my jam.

I listen to a lot of music, and I listen to some rap, and I do like listening to Biggie Smalls.

I like Biggie. Like 'Pac, he was one of the best rappers in the business. Why would I try to do something to him?

I lived in a bad neighborhood. I knew so many things a boy shouldn't know. I did so many things a boy shouldn't do.

The Notorious B.I.G.'s album 'Ready to Die' is an incredible chart of a man's life - it begins with his birth, you hear his mother giving birth, and it goes through the decades.

Mobb Deep is a street-rap group. We from off the streets.

And Alpo ordered guys to slaughter guys, and the whole Harlem was in tears when Rich Porter died.

If you wanna get away with murder, all you gotta do is shoot somebody in the head and put a demo tape in their pocket! 'This is a rap killing! Let's get outta here!'

A lot of people have that story that they used to sell crack or shoot people; that's nothing new. But honestly, if that was me, I probably still wouldn't be doing that because it's so many people that's doing that. It just gets old when you hear a million raps about how many ways I could shoot you. So I just try to be more creative and come with something new because I actually care about the music.

Hip-hop culture is deeply rooted in the wrong things. Hip-hop is about drugs right now. It's more so about drugs - about selling drugs, about using drugs - it's bad for kids.

I didn't create thug life, I diagnosed it