Verses To Live By: The Notorious B.I.G.’s 23 Greatest Lines was originally published on globalgrind.com
1. 1. The Notorious B.I.G. – “Niggas Bleed”
“I got a hundred bricks, 14.5 a piece / Enough to cop a 6, buy the house on the beach / Supply the peeps with Jeeps, brick a piece, capiche? Everybody getting cream no one considered a leech.”
2. Puff Daddy feat. Jay-Z & The Notorious B.I.G. – “Young G’s
“Spitting my Uzi, don’t lose me, my trigga niggas represent / Driving dirty in J-30’s getting bent / And to my hit hoes, my murder mommies / I’ll be smoking trees in Belize when they find me.” – The Notorious B.I.G.
3. The Notorious B.I.G. – “Ready to Die”
“When I die, fuck it, I wanna go to hell / Cause I’m a piece of shit, it ain’t hard to fucking tell / It don’t make sense, going to heaven with the goodie-goodies / Dressed in white, I like black Timbs and black hoodies.” – The Notorious B.I.G.
4. Super Cat feat. The Notorious B.I.G. – “Dolly My Baby (Remix)”
“I see you shivering / Check the flavor Biggie Smalls is delivering / Lyrical lyricist flowing lyrics out my larynx.” – The Notorious B.I.G.
5. The Notorious B.I.G. – “Mo Money Mo Problems”
“B-I-G P-O-P-P-A / No info for the DEA / Federal agents mad cause I’m flagrant / Tap my cell and the phone in the basement.” – The Notorious B.I.G.
6. The Notorious B.I.G. – “Big Poppa”
“I got more mack than Craig and in the bed / Believe me sweetie, I got enough to feed the needy / No need to be greedy, I got mad friends with Benzes.” – The Notorious B.I.G.
7. The Notorious B.I.G. – “Party & Bullshit”
“Lounging black, smoking sacks up in Ac’s and Sidekicks / With my sidekicks rocking fly kicks.” – The Notorious B.I.G.
8. Craig Mack feat. The Notorious B.I.G. & LL Cool J – “Flava In Ya Ear (Remix)”
“Disappear, vamoose, you’re wack to me / Take them rhymes back to the factory / I see the gimmicks, the wack lyrics, the shit is / Depressing, pathetic, please forget it.” – The Notorious B.I.G.
9. Unbelievable – Biggie (Original Version)
“Live from Bedford Stuyvesant / The Livest one / Representing BK to the fullest / Gats I pull it bastards ducking when Big be bucking.” – The Notorious B.I.G.
10. The Notoroius B.I.G. – “Sky’s The Limit”
“Getting larger in waists and tastes / Ain’t no telling where this felon is heading, just in case / Keep a shell at the tip of your melon, clear the space / Your brain was a terrible thing to waste.” – The Notorious B.I.G.
11. The Notorious B.I.G. – “What’s Beef”
“That’s how it is, my shit is laid out / Fuck that “beef” shit, that shit is played out / Y’all got the gall, all I make is one phone call, all y’all disappear by tomorrow.” – The Notorious B.I.G.
12. The Notorious B.I.G. – “Machine Gun Funk”
“Sticks and stones break bones, but the gat’ll kill you quicker / Especially when I’m drunk off the liquor.” – The Notorious B.I.G.
13. The Notorious B.I.G. feat. 112 – “Miss U”
“We work all week, weekends we play the movies / We rock flatops, our girls rocked doobies / Made a killin’, even though the D’s knew me / Eventually, you know they try to do me.” – The Notorious B.I.G.
14. The Notorious feat. Method Man – “The What”
“Excuse me, flows just grow through me / Like trees to branches, cliffs to avalanches / It’s the praying mantis, deep like the mind of Farrakhan.” – The Notorious B.I.G.
15. The Notorious B.I.G – “Everyday Struggle”
“But they don’t know about your stress-filled day / Baby on the way, mad bills to pay / That’s why you drink Tanqueray, so you can reminisce / And wish you wasn’t living so devilish, shit” – The Notorious B.I.G.
16. Busta Rhymes feat. The Notorious B.I.G. – “Modern Day Gangstas” [Unreleased]
“Catch my drift, or catch my four-fifth lift / At least six inches, above project fences.” – The Notorious B.I.G.
17. The Notorious B.I.G. – “Gimme The Loot”
“I’m slamming niggas like Shaquille, shit is real / When it’s time to eat a meal, I rob and steal / Cause mom dukes ain’t giving me shit / So for the bread and butter I leave niggas in the gutter.” – The Notorious B.I.G.
18. The Notorious B.I.G- “Me & My B***h”
“I never felt that way in my life / It didn’t take long before I made you my wife / Got no rings and shit, just my main squeeze / Comin’ to the crib, even had a set a keys.” – The Notorious B.I.G.
