Life After Death

Long Kiss Goodnight

The Notorious B.I.G.

Lyrics & Rhyme Analysis

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I make yo mouthpiece obese^✦ like Della^✦ Reese

When I release, you lose teeth like Little Cease

Nigga^✦ please

Blood floods your dungarees

And that's just a half of my warpath

Laugh now cry later,^✦ I rhyme greater

Than the average playa hater,^✦ and spectators

Buy my CD twice

They see me in the streets they be like yo he nice

But that's on the low doe'

Be the cats wit no dough, tried ta play me at my show

I pull out 4-4's, and go up in they clothes

Short-change niggas^✦

Snort-cane niggas^✦

Extortion came quicker

Bought the Range' nigga^✦

Ya still tickle me

I used^✦ ta be as strong as ripple be, 'till Little Cease cripple me

Now I play hard-like my girls nipples be

The games^✦ sour like like a pickle be

Ya'll know da rules^✦

Move from BK ta New Jerus

Thinkin' bout, all the planes^✦ we flew

Bitches, we ran through

Now da years new

I lay my game flat

I want my spot back, take two

Muthafuckas mad 'cause I blew, niggas^✦ envious^✦

Too many^✦ niggas^✦ on my dick, shit's strenuous^✦

When my men bust, you just move wit such stamina

Slugs missed^✦ ya

I ain't mad at'chya^✦ (We ain't mad at'chya)^✦

Blood rushing, concussions, ain't nothing

Catch cases,^✦ come out frontin'

Smokin'^✦ something

Sippin^✦ White Russians, bitch in the Benz bumpin'^✦

I laced^✦ it wit the basic^✦

6 TV's, a system, knockin' Mase shit, face it

We hard ta hit

Guard ya shit, for I stick you, for ya re-up

Wipe the pee up

Lick shots, woke his seed up

Go in the ashtray, spark the weed up

Long kiss

Time, time for you to die

As I kiss your ass goodnight^✦

Time, time for you to die

As I kiss your ass goodnight^✦

Uh, I'm flamin'^✦ gats, aimin'^✦ at, these fuckin'^✦

Maniacs put my name in raps, what part the

Game is that? Like they hustle backwards

I smoke backwoods, and Duchies

You can't touch me

Try to rush me

Slugs go, touchy-touchy

Ya bleedin' lovely,^✦ wit'chyo, spirit^✦ above^✦ me

Or beneath me, ya whole life ya live sneaky^✦

Now ya rest eternally, sleepy,^✦ ya burn when ya creep me

Rest where the worms and the weak be

My nine flies, baptize, rap guys

Wit the holy^✦ ghost

I put holes^✦ in most, you hold ya toast shakey^✦

Slip-n-tryin' ta break me

Look what'chyou made me do, brains blue

My team in the marine-blue, six-coupe

Skied it out, weeded^✦ out, cleanin' out

The block for distances, givin'^✦ long kisses^✦ bitch

Time, time for you to die

As I kiss your ass goodnight^✦

Time, time for you to die

As I kiss your ass goodnight^✦

Frank White the menacing, Chron Chron's the medicine^✦

I got the lettuce and, you turn green like cucumber skin

Got the new, Hummer^✦ in the summer^✦ when I was a new comer^✦

Then, drugs and MAC-10s

Hugs from fake friends, make ends they hate you

Be broke, girls won't date you

That's why I relate^✦ to, choke yo' ass out 'til your face blue

Make you, open^✦ the safe too

No matter^✦ how you call it (How you call it)

This brolic,^✦ alcoholic

Like his weed green'd out, like his brick solid

Distribute to, kids who, take heart like Valentine^✦

Drink Ballantine,^✦ all the time

Slugs hit your chest tap you spine, flatline^✦

Heard through the grapevine,^✦ you got fucked^✦ fo' times^✦

Damn that three to nine, fucked^✦ you up for real though

Sling steel slow, as for remorse, we feel no

Time, time for you to die

As I kiss your ass goodnight^✦

Time, time for you to die

As I kiss your ass goodnight^✦

Time, time for you to die

As I kiss your ass goodnight^✦

Time, time for you to die

As I kiss your ass goodnight^✦

Time, time for you to die

As I kiss your ass goodnight^✦

Time, time for you to die

As I kiss your ass goodnight^✦

Technical Breakdown

9.0

Multisyllabic Rhymes7.5

Complexity of rhyme schemes (data-driven)

Internal Rhymes9.5

Rhymes within a line (data-driven)

Wordplay / Double Entendres7.5

Clever language, metaphors, punchlines

Cadence / Rhythm10.0

Flow variation and timing (data-driven)

Vocabulary Complexity7.0

Range and depth of words used (data-driven)

Delivery / Breath Control9.5

Performance and control

Computed Score9.00

Production

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Critic Analysis

RAPLEDGER BAROMETER™

Biggie utilizes an aggressive, percussive phonetic delivery that prioritizes internal rhyme density over abstract metaphor, effectively blending narrative menace with technical rhythmic dominance.

A+

7.5

Multisyllabic

9.5

Internal Rhymes

Cadence / Flow

Vocabulary

7.5

Wordplay

9.5

Delivery

Multisyllabic rhyme chainsConsonance-heavy internal rhymePhonetic playAggressive enunciationSyncopated cadences

Rhyme Architecture: Predominantly AAAA/BBBB cluster rhymes with high internal density, utilizing forced slant rhymes to maintain momentum across multisyllabic patterns.

Verified Doubles & Entendres

"Short-change niggas / Snort-cane niggas"

① Accusing rivals of being financially inferior or dishonest (short-changing).② Describing rivals as drug addicts (snorting cocaine).

"The games sour like like a pickle be"

① The hip-hop industry is inherently distasteful or unrewarding.② A reflection of the paranoia and 'sour' relations within the rap landscape during the mid-90s.

Unmatched rhythmic pocket and pocket-locking

Exceptional use of phonetic play to bridge disparate ideas

High-energy delivery that maintains clarity at high speeds

Occasional reliance on shock-value imagery over complex narrative depth

Some rhyme pairings border on simplistic despite technical execution

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Notes

Biggie's final battle rap statement. His density and internal rhyme complexity here is staggering