A biography for The Notorious B.I.G.hasn’t been written yet.
“Growing up in the streets of Bed-Stuy, it was hard, yo.”
“I can't never stop nobody, can't knock nobody hustle.”
“If Fay has twins, she'll probably have two pacs. Get it? Tu... Pac's.”
“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.”
“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 my talent to disrespect another black man.”
“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'.”
“Pac get busy. People can't take nothing from him. On the lyrics, he get busy, straight up.”
“My real life helped me sell a lot of records.”
“I grew up in some suburb, I'd come out with a song about potholes in my lawn.”
“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.”
“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.”