Ready to Die

Sky’s the Limit

The Notorious B.I.G.

Lyrics & Rhyme Analysis

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Good evenin'^✦ ladies^✦ and gentlemen^✦

How's everybody^✦ doin' tonite?^✦

I'd like to welcome to the stage, the lyrically acclaimed, ha

I like this young man, because,^✦ when he came out

He came out wit the phrase, he went from ashy^✦ to classy^✦

Haha,^✦ I like that

So everybody^✦ in the house, give a warm, round of applause^✦ for

The Notorious^✦ B.I.G. *clapping*

The Notorious^✦ B.I.G. ladies^✦ and gentlemen^✦ give it up for him ya'll

Uhhh

A nigga^✦ never^✦ been as broke as me, (I like that)

When I was young I had two pair of Lees, (besides that)

The pin stripes and the gray (uh-huh)^✦

The one I wore on Mondays^✦ and Wednesdays^✦

While niggas^✦ flirt, I'm sewing^✦ tigers^✦ on my shirt

And alligators

Ya wanna^✦ see the inside,^✦ huh, I see ya later^✦

Here come the drama,^✦ oh, that's that nigga^✦ with the fake- blaow!

Why you punch me in my face? Stay in ya place

Play ya position,^✦ here come my intuition^✦

Go in this nigga^✦ pocket^✦

Rob him while his friends watchin'

And hoes clockin', here comes^✦ respect

His crew's your crew, or they might be next

Look at they man eye, BIG man they never^✦ try

So we roll with 'em, stole with 'em

I mean loyalty, niggaz^✦ bought me milks at lunch

The milks was chocolate, the cookies, buttercrunch

In gear - Oshkosh with blue and white dunks

Pass the blunt

Sky is the limit^✦ and you know that you keep on

Just keep on pressin'^✦ on

Sky is the limit^✦ and you know that you can have

What you want, pressin^✦ what you want

Sky is the limit^✦ and you know that you keep on

Just keep on pressin'^✦ on

Sky is the limit^✦ and you know that you can have

What you want, be what you want, have what you want, be what you want

(Notorious^✦ B.I.G.)

Uh-huh,^✦ I was ashamed, my crew was lame

I had enough heart for most of 'em

Long as I got stuff from most of 'em

It's on, even^✦ when I was wrong I got my point across^✦

They depicted me the boss, of course

My orange^✦ box-cutter make the world go round

Plus I'm fuckin',^✦ bitches ain't my homegirls now

Start stackin, dabbled in crack, gun packin'^✦

Nickname Medina,^✦ make the seniors tote my ninas^✦

From gym class, to Englass, pass off a global^✦

The only^✦ nigga^✦ wit a mobile,^✦ Can't You See like Total^✦

Gettin^✦ larger^✦ in waist and taste

Ain't no tellin^✦ where this felon^✦ is headin,^✦ just in case

Keep a shell at the tip of ya melon,^✦ clear the space

Ya brain was a terrible thing ta waste

Eighty-eight long gates,^✦ snatch initial name plates^✦

Smokin^✦ spliffs with niggaz,^✦ real life beginner killers

Prayin God forgive us for being sinners, help us out

Sky is the limit^✦ and you know that you keep on

Just keep on pressin'^✦ on

Sky is the limit^✦ and you know that you can have

What you want, pressin'^✦ what you want

Sky is the limit^✦ and you know that you keep on

Just keep on pressin^✦ on

Sky is the limit^✦ and you know that you can have

What you want, be what you want, have what you want, be what you want

(Notorious^✦ B.I.G.)

After^✦ realizin, to master^✦ enterprisin'

I ain't have ta be in school by ten, I was in

Began^✦ to encounter, with my counter-parts

On how ta burn the block apart,^✦ break it down into^✦ sections^✦

Drugs by the selection^✦

Some use pipes,^✦ others^✦ use in-jec-tions^✦

Syringe sold seperately, Frank the deputy^✦

Quick to grab my Smith-n-Wesson, like my dick was missin'^✦

To protect my position,^✦ my corner,^✦ my layer

While we out here, say the hustlas prayer

If the game shakes^✦ me or breaks me

I hope it makes^✦ me a better^✦ man

Take a better^✦ stand

Put money^✦ in my moms hand

Get my daughter this college plan, so she don't need no man

Stay far from timid

Only^✦ make moves^✦ when ya heart's in it

And live the phrase Sky's The Limit^✦

Motherfucker... see you chumps on top

Sky is the limit^✦ and you know that you keep on

Just keep on pressin'^✦ on

Sky is the limit^✦ and you know that you can have

What you want, be what you want

Sky is the limit^✦ and you know that you keep on

Just keep on pressin'^✦ on

Sky is the limit^✦ and you know that you can have

What you want, pressin'^✦ what you want

Sky is the limit^✦ and you know that you keep on

Just keep on pressin'^✦ on

Sky is the limit^✦ and you know that you can have

What you want, be what you want

Sky is the limit^✦ and you know that you keep on

Just keep on pressin'^✦ on

Sky is the limit^✦ and you know that you can have

What you want, be what you want

Sky is the limit^✦ and you know that you keep on

Just keep on pressin'^✦ on

Sky is the limit^✦ and you know that you can have

What you want, be what you want...

Technical Breakdown

8.0

Multisyllabic Rhymes6.0

Complexity of rhyme schemes (data-driven)

Internal Rhymes8.0

Rhymes within a line (data-driven)

Wordplay / Double Entendres7.0

Clever language, metaphors, punchlines

Cadence / Rhythm9.0

Flow variation and timing (data-driven)

Vocabulary Complexity7.0

Range and depth of words used (data-driven)

Delivery / Breath Control8.0

Performance and control

Computed Score8.00

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Notes

An optimistic vision in the harsh realities.