The notorious b.i.g.

My real life helped me sell a lot of records.

You gotta mature, you know.

I'm making music for the people. If y'all love the music, y'all gonna buy the music.

I can't never stop nobody, can't knock nobody hustle.

The second time I went to jail, I was like, 'Okay, this is not the move.'

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.'

'96 is the year of love. We all need to pull together.

Growing up in the streets of Bed-Stuy, it was hard, yo.

Please, all you MCs out there, all you fans out there, don't think Big gonna make a record dissing 2Pac or the West Coast because it's not going down like that. I cant even see me wasting my time or...

I'm basically different things to different people. If it's a guy, I'm-a probably have my guard up because it's a street rule that when men come around that I don't know, I just immediately throw...