Top 40 The Notorious B.I.G. Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Never let them know your next move.”

— The Notorious B.I.G.

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2. “Stay far from timid only make moves when you’re heart’s in it, and live the phrase the sky’s the limit.”

— The Notorious B.I.G.

3. “We can’t change the world until we change ourselves.”

— The Notorious B.I.G.

4. “Spread love, it’s the Brooklyn way.”

— The Notorious B.I.G.

5. “Climb the ladder to success escalator style.”

— The Notorious B.I.G.

6. “Excellence is my presence. Never tense, never hesitant.”

— The Notorious B.I.G.

7. “Never get high on your own supply.”

— The Notorious B.I.G.

8. “If the game shakes me or breaks me, I hope it makes me a better man.”

— The Notorious B.I.G.

9. “You’re nobody ’til somebody kills you.”

— The Notorious B.I.G.

10. “I’m living everyday like a hustle. Another drug to juggle. Another day, another struggle.”

— The Notorious B.I.G.

11. “And everything you get, ya gotta work hard for it.”

— The Notorious B.I.G.

12. “Even when I was wrong, I got my point across.”

— The Notorious B.I.G.

13. “Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis. When I was dead broke, man, I couldn’t picture this.”

— The Notorious B.I.G.

14. “Forgive me for my disrespect, forgive me for my lies.”

— The Notorious B.I.G.

15. “Move over Lucifer, I’m more ruthless, leave you toothless.”

— The Notorious B.I.G.

16. “First comes the cash, then comes the ass, then come big blunts with chunks of hash.”

— The Notorious B.I.G.

17. “Get ready to die, tell God I say hi.”

— The Notorious B.I.G.

18. “While your guns raisin’, mine is blazin’.”

— The Notorious B.I.G.

19. “We be tight like frogs ass.”

— The Notorious B.I.G.

20. “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.”

— The Notorious B.I.G.

21. “I never wish death on nobody, cause there ain’t coming back from that.”

— The Notorious B.I.G.

22. “Relax and take notes while I take tokes of the marijuana smoke.”

— The Notorious B.I.G.

23. “If you don’t love yourself, I’ll make you see your own heart.”

— The Notorious B.I.G.

24. “To all the teachers that told me I’d never amount to nothing.”

— The Notorious B.I.G.

25. “When I release, you loose teeth.”

— The Notorious B.I.G.

26. “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.’”

— The Notorious B.I.G.

27. “Old school new school need to learn though I burn baby, burn like Disco Inferno Burn slow like blunts with ya-yo Peel more skins than Idaho potato.”

— The Notorious B.I.G.

28. “Stop, look, listen. I spit on your grave, then I grab my Charles Dickens.”

— The Notorious B.I.G.

29. “Sticks and stones may break bones, but the Gat will kill you quicker.”

— The Notorious B.I.G.

30. “Mariah Carey is kinda scary.”

— The Notorious B.I.G.

31. “The lesson from the smith and wesson is depressin’.”

— The Notorious B.I.G.

32. “Never trust nobody, your moms will set your ass up.”

— The Notorious B.I.G.

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

— The Notorious B.I.G.

34. “I can’t never stop nobody, can’t knock nobody hustle.”

— The Notorious B.I.G.

35. “Revenge be the dish I serve to cats cold.”

— The Notorious B.I.G.

36. “She used my toothbrush to clean the toilet.”

— The Notorious B.I.G.

37. “Never let no one know how much dough you hold.”

— The Notorious B.I.G.

38. “As soon as she hit the door we start blastin’, I saw her brains hit the floor, raw laughin’.”

— The Notorious B.I.G.

39. “I’m a thug, but I swear for three days I cried.”

— The Notorious B.I.G.

40. “The second time I went to jail, I was like, ‘okay, this is not the move.’”

— The Notorious B.I.G.

41. “The green tempts me to make the rich the enemy, and take their cheese.”

— The Notorious B.I.G.

42. “I’m making music for the people. If y’all love the music, y’all gonna buy the music.”

— The Notorious B.I.G.

43. “Play the charts like the Beatles.”

— The Notorious B.I.G.

44. “My real life helped me sell a lot of records.”

— The Notorious B.I.G.