The Notorious B.I.G.
The Notorious B.I.G.

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.
The Notorious B.I.G.

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'.

The Notorious B.I.G.
The Notorious B.I.G.

My real life helped me sell a lot of records.

The Notorious B.I.G.
The Notorious B.I.G.

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.

The Notorious B.I.G.
The Notorious B.I.G.

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

The Notorious B.I.G.
The Notorious B.I.G.

I'm not a security-type person: I don't want to have bodyguards around me. I'm not into all that.

The Notorious B.I.G.
The Notorious B.I.G.

I cleaned up my act, and I made this rap thing work for me. I thought people would respect me for that. But instead, it's, 'Oh, he's sold all these records, and now he thinks he's all that.'

The Notorious B.I.G.
The Notorious B.I.G.

I can't even see me wasting my time or my talent to disrespect another black man.

The Notorious B.I.G.
The Notorious B.I.G.

How real can your music be if you wake up in the morning hearing birds and crickets? I never hear birds when I wake up. Just a lot of construction work, the smell of Chinese takeout, children screaming, and everybody knocking a different track from 'Ready to Die' as they pass down the street.

The Notorious B.I.G.
The Notorious B.I.G.

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.

The Notorious B.I.G.
The Notorious B.I.G.

Naahhh... I don't like KRS no more 'cause he just think he's too dope.