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It Has Been Said - The Notorious B.I.G. (Biggie Smalls)[00:00:00]
It has been, it has been, it has been[00:00:02]
It has been said,[00:00:05]
That there has been known to be bloodshed[00:00:06]
Over bread,[00:00:08]
Men who have bled to death, dead[00:00:09]
Strapped to beds, pipe bombs, dynamite,[00:00:11]
Lead money power respect, street cred, yeah[00:00:14]
It's scary ain't it?[00:00:17]
Picture yourself going out as a hero[00:00:18]
Picture mural pictures of us painted[00:00:20]
All over street corners[00:00:22]
Fans meet to mourn us,[00:00:23]
While we meet the coroners[00:00:25]
Notorious tried to warn us[00:00:26]
We watched,[00:00:28]
So many Biggie backed off of[00:00:29]
Biggie's back and 'Pac's, landmarks, history in rap[00:00:30]
Statistically in fact;[00:00:34]
It's so sad to see us re-enact[00:00:36]
These tragic events, which lead us back[00:00:38]
To where we left off on March 9th[00:00:40]
To come from such hard knock lifes[00:00:42]
And make it up out of them, hit the spotlights[00:00:43]
And, once they're on us this is our lives[00:00:46]
Thrust out for all eyes to cast upon us[00:00:48]
To see who can last the longest[00:00:50]
And he who lasts the longest,[00:00:51]
Must be the strongest[00:00:53]
In this concrete jungle,[00:00:54]
Where this dog eat dog mentality comes from[00:00:55]
It's origin,[00:00:58]
Which is usually originated from cats who starving[00:00:59]
Or it could just be somebody's horror,[00:01:02]
That just horri-fies[00:01:04]
And applies to his persona or the sizes[00:01:05]
In his entou-rage, that intimidates the people[00:01:08]
To the point that you know that he's gangster[00:01:10]
He ain't just say sh*t, you just believe it[00:01:13]
Since B.I.B. taught us niggaz to think big[00:01:14]
I'm been about my business since then,[00:01:16]
So anxious[00:01:18]
It ain't how we live,[00:01:19]
It's what he said,[00:01:20]
He did it for Brooklyn[00:01:21]
This I took in, sent chills through my skin[00:01:22]
Vicious, I'm experiencin the same sights as him[00:01:25]
It's what excited Obie to write these poems[00:01:28]
Rolling, going through the same sh*t he spoken[00:01:31]
Open up my eyes so there's no limit in them skies[00:01:34]
When Ready to Die was a sick part of my life[00:01:36]
Palmin that forty-five, plottin to pop my mind[00:01:39]
Then that crooked eye Jamaican[00:01:42]
I'd so many times rewind[00:01:43]
Got me to walk a straight line and get up on my grind[00:01:45]
Get up out the system,[00:01:48]
Who could give him better signs[00:01:49]
No pop of mine could top Big Poppa rhymes[00:01:51]
So possibly I'd be popular huh?[00:01:54]
That's the inspiration I got from my ni**a B.I.[00:01:57]
I took him from coal to diamond,[00:01:59]
I molded his mind[00:02:01]
Enter the most phenomenal artist of any and all time[00:02:02]
I made a Frankenstein,[00:02:05]
My design impressed[00:02:06]
Backpackers and press who said my house was a mess[00:02:08]
Critics lashed,[00:02:11]
Said I made a fortune off of his passin[00:02:11]
All I did was build a dynasty, off of his passion[00:02:13]
And I'm addressing the adolesencents absent to who he is[00:02:16]
The original king of New York,[00:02:19]
Christopher Wallace...[00:02:21]
This is a promise on Diddy's honor,[00:02:21]
I'm a father T'Yanna[00:02:23]
And teach her that with all the drama[00:02:25]
Don't even bother...[00:02:27]
On repeat, all of your albums play back to back[00:02:28]
And I visit your grave cause our friendship's intact[00:02:31]
An immaculate concept, extravagant progress[00:02:33]
Bullet wounds left in my heart, I'm yellin "God bless"[00:02:37]
Regardless to critics yellin that East/West[00:02:40]
I seen the game losing,[00:02:42]
I'm just pressing the reset[00:02:43]
And when the ressurection of you shines through an individual[00:02:45]
Lyrical enough to wear the same crown of thorns literally![00:02:48]
I'ma pay homage, Brooklyn's finest[00:02:51]
Whether it's Queens or Harlem[00:02:53]
It'll be instant stardom, ni**a![00:02:55]