Life After Death

Notorious Thugs

The Notorious B.I.G.

Lyrics & Rhyme Analysis

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[Chorus: Bizzy Bone & Krayzie Bone]

It's Bone and Biggie, Biggie

It's Bone and Biggie, Biggie (We gon' rock the party)^✦

Just Bone and Biggie, Biggie

It's Bone and Biggie, Biggie (Rock the party,^✦ party)^✦

It's Bone and Biggie, Biggie

It's Bone and Biggie, Biggie (Better^✦ run and tell everybody)^✦

Just Bone and Biggie, Biggie

It's Bone and Biggie, Biggie (Everybody,^✦ everybody)^✦

Let's ride, let's ride, Let's ride, let's ride

Get high, get high, get high, c'mon

Let's ride, let's ride, Let's ride, let's ride

Get high, get high, get high, c'mon, c'mon

[Verse 1: The Notorious B.I.G.]

Armed^✦ and dangerous^✦

Ain't too many^✦ can bang with us

Straight up weed, no angel^✦ dust

Label^✦ us notorious^✦

Thug-ass niggas^✦ that love to bust, it's strange to us

Y'all niggas^✦ be scramblin',^✦ gamblin'^✦

Up in restaurants with mandolins^✦ and violins^✦

We just sittin'^✦ here tryna^✦ win, tryin' not to sin

High off weed and lots of gin

So much smoke, need oxygen^✦

Steadily countin' them Benjamins

Nigga,^✦ you should too, if you knew

What this game'll^✦ do to you

Been in this shit since '92

Look at all the bullshit I been through

So-called beef with you know who

Fucked^✦ a few female^✦ stars or two

Then I blew like niggas^✦ move like Mike

Shit, not to be fucked^✦ with

Motherfucker^✦ better^✦ duck quick

'Cause me and my dogs love to buck shit

Fuck the luck shit, strictly aim

No aspirations^✦ to quit the game

Spit yo' game, talk yo' shit

Grab yo' gat, call yo' clique

Squeeze yo' clip, hit the right one

Pass that weed, I got to light one

All them niggas,^✦ I got to fight one

All them hoes, I got to like one

Our situation is a tight one

What you gonna^✦ do: fight or run?

Seems to me that you'll take B

Bone and Big, nigga,^✦ die slowly^✦

I'ma^✦ tell you like a nigga^✦ told me

"Cash Rule Everything Around^✦ Me"

Shit, lyrically^✦ niggas^✦ can't see me

Fuck it, buy the coke, cook the coke, cut it

Know the bitch 'fore you caught yourself lovin'^✦ it

Nigga^✦ with a Benz fuckin'^✦ it

Doesn't it seem odd to you?

Big come through with mobs and crews

Goodfellas down to the Mo' Thugs dudes^✦

Who's the killer:^✦ me or you?

[Interlude: Puff Daddy]

We forgive you, for you know not what you do

[Verse 2: Bizzy Bone]

7 a.m., woke in the morning

With Hen' and caffeine^✦ and green and nicotine^✦

No-Doz so pop a couple of those

Lil' RIPsta,^✦ nigga^✦ Mista^✦ Clean, make it gleam

Deep in my temple and not to get sentimentally^✦ steamed

With my instrumelody,^✦ and heated,^✦ especially^✦ for your team

And a .45 indeed^✦ will beam

In between^✦ the scenes,^✦ destroy your dreams

You willin'^✦ to die? We'll see

How many^✦ flee when I cause the scene?

We mean mug, Mo' Thugs, trained to be perfect disciples

When it's survival, tongue of a double-edged sword

Triple six rivals spittin' fire

This the real truth, bitch, breakin' out for lies

My Messiah's better^✦ get ready^✦ for Armageddon, shit's expired

It's wild, bless the child, the one that became^✦ a man

Put in positions^✦ off in the Clair

All that I had to do was stare

Test me now, contender,^✦ never^✦ no surrender,^✦ no pretend

Pick up my pen in my hand

One of my trusted friend-friends, hey

Open^✦ the last seal for real, we all suited^✦

Beg my pardon^✦ to Martin^✦

Baby,^✦ we ain't marchin', we shootin'

In daily^✦ recruitin', there's^✦ a thug born everyday in the ghetto^✦

We start 'em off little, we give 'em a bible

And a pen and a pad to hit the label^✦ — kick it, nigga!^✦

[Verse 3: Krayzie Bone]

Nigga^✦ roll with Bone up into^✦ the dank spot

To the dome with a shot of burb

Never^✦ get tossed^✦ to the curb, be feelin'^✦ that urge to splurge

But I'm broke as fuck, Sin, give me that Mossberg swerve! (Oh)

Up into^✦ my bag 'cause I gotta^✦ get my mask and shells

To put in this 12 gauge sawed-off^✦

Get 'em hauled^✦ off, nigga^✦

Y'all loss, take it all off

Got a nigga^✦ caught off

For the pump now Leatherface, sin runnin'^✦ thuggin'^✦ and cuttin'^✦

Little Mo Hart want to pull it ain't nothin'^✦

Bitch if you steppin' we buckin'^✦ them guns that’s fucked^✦ up

Now let me get down for the grind

Gotta^✦ go purchase a dime

Put in a state to get down for the crime

Smokin'^✦ the reefer^✦ to ease my mind

Swig some wine, step on the block with the rocks

But really^✦ we be servin'^✦ them dummies, see?

Gotta^✦ buck him on down

If he come back talkin'^✦ like, "Gimme me back me money!"^✦

Thuggin'^✦ with me killers

Need us a liter^✦ of liquor but niggas^✦ ain't got shit

With a sawed-off^✦ pump, chrome .38 pistol

Now, who ready^✦ to get bent?

Nigga^✦ like me fiendin' for them green leaves^✦

But I ain't had no dough

Gotta^✦ make some money,^✦ so

I'm makin'^✦ my dummy^✦ rocks if I go broke

[Chorus: Bizzy Bone, Krayzie Bone & Layzie Bone]

It's Bone and Biggie, Biggie

It's Bone and Biggie, Biggie (We gon' rock the party)^✦

Just Bone and Biggie, Biggie

It's Bone and Biggie, Biggie (Rock the party,^✦ party)^✦

It's Bone and Biggie, Biggie

It's Bone and Biggie, Biggie (Better^✦ run and tell everybody)^✦

Just Bone and Biggie, Biggie

It's Bone and Biggie, Biggie (Everybody,^✦ everybody)^✦

Let's ride, let's ride, Let's ride, let's ride

Get high, get high, get high, c'mon

Let's ride, let's ride, Let's ride, let's ride

Get high, get high, get high, c'mon, c'mon (Yeah)

[Verse 4: Layzie Bone]

Little Lay, hey, comin'^✦ in the form of scripture

Finna^✦ get ya and hit ya with magic

Droppin' down lead but I call it my gadgets

With an automatic status, we spray

Time to load the Glocks, but I'm thinkin' not

There's^✦ another evil^✦ force tellin'^✦ me to do what I gotta^✦ do

So I up my pipe, a nigga^✦ dyin' tonight

And I'm always^✦ runnin'^✦ from the boys in blue

Biggie, blue's on my ass

Now I pull out the cellular phone to call Bone, "What's happenin'?"

Grab artillery, a nigga^✦ start packin'^✦

'Cause a motherfucker^✦ tried to get me in a jackin'^✦

And I did him, hit him right between^✦ the eyes

The spot was wise; wanna^✦ test a nigga^✦ size, it'll cost him

Nigga^✦ fuck around^✦ with the wrong shit

Y'all get mo murdered all day, all day

We done paved^✦ the way and I'm on the run

I'ma^✦ call my boys and bring all the guns

Y'all niggas^✦ wanna^✦ have a little fun with number^✦ one, one, one?

Bloody^✦ red, red, rum, rum, rum, rum, rum, rum

Bloody^✦ red, red, rum

[Chorus: Bizzy Bone & Krayzie Bone]

It's Bone and Biggie, Biggie

It's Bone and Biggie, Biggie (We gon' rock the party)^✦

Just Bone and Biggie, Biggie

It's Bone and Biggie, Biggie (Rock the party,^✦ party)^✦

It's Bone and Biggie, Biggie

It's Bone and Biggie, Biggie (Better^✦ run and tell everybody)^✦

Just Bone and Biggie, Biggie

It's Bone and Biggie, Biggie (Everybody,^✦ everybody)^✦

Let's ride, let's ride, Let's ride, let's ride

Get high, get high, get high, c'mon

Let's ride, let's ride, Let's ride, let's ride

Get high, get high, get high, c'mon, c'mon

It's Bone and Biggie, Biggie

It's Bone and Biggie, Biggie (We gon' rock the party)^✦

Just Bone and Biggie, Biggie

It's Bone and Biggie, Biggie (Rock the party,^✦ party)^✦

It's Bone and Biggie, Biggie

It's Bone and Biggie, Biggie (Better^✦ run and tell everybody)^✦

Just Bone and Biggie, Biggie

It's Bone and Biggie, Biggie (Everybody,^✦ everybody)^✦

Let's ride, let's ride, Let's ride, let's ride

Get high, get high, get high, c'mon

Let's ride, let's ride, Let's ride, let's ride

Get high, get high, get high, c'mon, c'mon

Technical Breakdown

8.9

Multisyllabic Rhymes8.5

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 Complexity5.0

Range and depth of words used (data-driven)

Delivery / Breath Control9.5

Performance and control

Computed Score8.89

Production

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Critic Analysis

RAPLEDGER BAROMETER™

Biggie utilizes the 'Notorious' phonetic signature to anchor an elite rhythmic display, demonstrating how internal rhyme density can mask a relatively simplistic thematic approach to create a hypnotic, genre-defining flow.

A+

8.5

Multisyllabic

9.5

Internal Rhymes

Cadence / Flow

Vocabulary

7.5

Wordplay

9.5

Delivery

Assonant chain-rhymingMultisyllabic internal rhyme clustersRhythmic syncopationPhonetic repetition as a hook

Rhyme Architecture: A highly dense, complex multisyllabic scheme built primarily on the 'us/ous' suffix across the first five bars, transitioning into a rapid-fire internal rhyme sequence on the 'in' vowel sound.

Verified Doubles & Entendres

"Armed and dangerous / Ain't too many can bang with us"

① Literal firearms possession and combat readiness.② A play on the 'Notorious' branding, positioning the group as an untouchable force in the music industry.

"Straight up weed, no angel dust / Label us notorious"

① A clarification of drug preference (natural vs. synthetic PCP).② A self-referential nod to the 'Notorious' moniker, framing the group's reputation as a legitimate 'label' or branding.

Exceptional rhythmic pocket and cadence

Commanding vocal presence that dominates the beat

Perfect integration of rhyme density with flow

Structural cohesion in the transition from setup to the 'in' rhyme scheme

Vocabulary breadth is narrow, relying heavily on phonetic matching rather than complex lexical choices

Thematic content is formulaic for the period

The use of 'mandolins and violins' acts more as a phonetic filler than a cohesive narrative device

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