Biggie Rap Quotes

#1. Biggie was a lyrical genius: he was a musical painter with words. As he rapped, you would see the picture come to life as you heard his story. You hear a lot of rappers rap; you hear a lot of singers sing, but you don't see the movie in your head the way you do when you hear Biggie rap.

R. Kelly

#2. Rap to me is a modern blues. But until we really confront the truth, we are going to have a Tupac or Eminem or Biggie Smalls to remind us about it - and thank God.

Stevie Wonder

#3. I'm trying to get every man involved in art, into experimental music, or painting, or novel-writing.

Harvey Pekar

#4. When we come in, Trey is sitting up in the bed, him arm is a sling and a shadow of stubble on his face. "It's about time," he says. He's got the look of a stoner on his face, and I he's got a morphine drip going. Guess mom and Dad don't think HE'LL get addicted. Eye roll.

Lisa McMann

#5. An insular country, subject to fogs, and with a powerful middle class, requires grave statesmen.

Benjamin Disraeli

#6. To be honest to oneself, and that is very hard to do.

Bruce Lee

#7. I listen to a lot of music, and I listen to some rap, and I do like listening to Biggie Smalls.

Ed Oxenbould

#8. There's not much need for prophets who are in synch with their society.

Theodor Adorno

#9. It is almost impossible to have a baseless snobbish opinion of the General Theory of Relativity.

Michael Moorcock

#10. I enjoy staying home with friends more than going out. The other night, for example, my girlfriends and I stayed in listening to some '90s rap - my favorite kind. We were in the Hamptons and made it an all-Biggie weekend, all of his albums on repeat. I loved it.

Phoebe Tonkin

#11. When I write, I tend to twist my hair. Something for my small mind to do, I guess.

Maya Angelou

#12. I am the pinball geek of the band, probably of the nation of Canada. I've been a pinball fan my whole life. I started collecting machines in the late '90s.

Ed Robertson