Top 35 Biggie Quotes

I fell in love with hip-hop a little bit late; I grew up on Another Bad Creation and Kris Kross. But my mom got me a TV in my room, and I remember seeing Biggie’s ‘Give Me One More Chance,’ and I was like, ‘Oh, this is how a house party looks!’ I really, really fell in love with it when Tupac created ‘Dear Mama.’

Everyone uses grime as a footstool, but imagine Biggie Smalls started doing hip hop, and it started going well, and then he started making RnB: there would be no hip hop!

I decided to see how my voice sounds on different type of records. So I did Eminem and the Biggie, Florence and the Machine, and Muse covers. A couple of them just came from some jam sessions between me and my sister in her bedroom at my father’s house in San Diego.

Biggie was to me the guy who was the best at painting the picture and making you visualize something, Pac was the best poet, and I feel like Jay Z is all of the above. Then Rick Ross is just, every line he spits is just perfect, and he’s one of my favorite MCs of all time.

If you hear people talking about the Golden Era of rap, they’re usually talking about the early Wu Tang Clan era and then Nas and Biggie and so on. But for me, it goes back to the ’80s – 1986 to 1989.

My favorite rappers are a lot of other people’s favorite rappers. I love Jay Z, Kanye, 2Pac, Biggie, old Mos Def.

I think people that came out originally, like 2Pac, Biggie, Snoop Dogg,, and even T.I. and Ludacris, they were original with their vibe, but at the same time, they were classics.

I grew up part of the MTV generation. I saw Biggie Smalls and Jay-Z on TV and I thought: ‘Wow, look at these powerful black people.’ I wanted that.

When I first met Big, we were both at a ‘Bad Boy’ family photo shoot. I was kind of familiar with the name Biggie Smalls, but I really wasn’t that much into hip-hop at the time, so I really didn’t know that was him. He said he didn’t even know I was an artist on ‘Bad Boy.’

A lot of Friday nights, Guru and I would go kick it with Biggie, since he was just three blocks down from us.

There will never be another Biggie ever again.

Brandy is one of my favorite vocalists. Jay-Z is my favorite emcee outside of Biggie.

Man, me and Biggie were the biggest artists in New York. When he passed, I was so messed up. My attitude was messed up about him dying. There was an East-West thing back then, and I was in war mode.

Biggie has been the logo for success, the logo for doing it big – from popping champagne, the ladies, the fashion.

I’m better than Tupac and Biggie. I say that so now you know where my head at.

I grew up listening to a lot of early ’90s hip-hop. I had the debut Wu-Tang album, Biggie, Snoop, that kind of stuff. Hieroglyphics, the Gravediggaz. I remember D.O.C.’s ‘The Portrait of a Masterpiece’ was something that had a big influence on me.

Jay Z wasn’t great when 2pac and Biggie was alive.

I’m a ride or die Biggie fan. I’ve come out to ‘Victory’ so many times.

Biggie is my favorite rapper, for sure. No other artist has impacted me that much.

If you think about 2Pac, Biggie, and Nas, all of those guys were teenagers or in their early 20s when they got started. Everybody acts like young people have to be silly and lack perspective. Those guys had incredible perspective, and everything that they said was before 25 years old.

I was a big hip hop girl, and still am, I listened to artists like Wu Tang, and K’Naan, but I was a particular fan of Biggie and Tupac.

With Biggie, I thought his flow and his swag was better than Tupac’s, but I thought Tupac’s passion and ability to relate to the average person was better than Biggie, and I thought Nas was kind of like both, with a lot substance going but a lot of swag.

With ‘Ready to Die,’ that was some of the most honest rhymes of all-time. There’s some real dark material on there that Biggie was going through.

My dad is from Queens. I remember visiting as a kid. My grandparents grew up here. All the actors I respected were coming out of here. All the hip-hop I was listening to – Beastie Boys, A Tribe Called Quest, Biggie, Wu Tang – was coming out of New York. I’m just into it.

There is some gangsta music I like, like Biggie Smalls – he reminds me of Slick Rick -doing the same thing, but he did it in a really artistic way.

My dad did not play Biggie or Tupac, so I had never heard it.

Jay Z and Biggie and Nas always listened to my direction. They listened and they applied it and I also listened to their opinions and that’s why the records came out so good.

People used to say my son looked like a Mexican Biggie. And when he was first born, memories of Biggie… you know, we didn’t always have the greatest days. For at least half the length of our marriage we were separated, so everyday was definitely not a good day.

I’m a big fan of all styles, even Biggie and Wu-Tang, but I gotta do my thing.

Biggie Smalls, Jay-Z, Nas, Eminem, Big L, Tupac. That was, like, my top five, generally.

Let’s say honorary favorite New Yorker is John Lennon, and favorite real New Yorker is Biggie, because he’s the best.

When you go back and really listen to the legendary rappers, this is timeless music. Guys like Biggie, guys like Pac, timeless music.

I had a lot of respect for Biggie, and it was just a weird, kinda difficult thing. When I’m doing touchy interviews like that, I just try to be fair to both parties.

I’m part of the generation that grew up with great rappers like 2Pac and Biggie and people like Amy Winehouse. We’ve seen a lot of different artists come and go. Even people who are still here, they seem consumed and blinded by fame. It may not have taken them out physically, but they have been taken out.

Growing up I was listening to Puff and Biggie.