The Notorious B.I.G. – Notorious Thugs

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  General Comment:Yeah, in all honesty, this is probably one of the best rap songs ever made. Maybe the best.

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  General Comment:fucking bone thugs are such garbage

  Flagged Zacky7123on January 26, 2010   Link

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    You're garbage. Bone Thugs have a unique style, they rap melodically and combine it with fast speed to make probably one of the most challenging deliveries in the game, and they're still going while most of their contemporaries are out of the game for whatever reason. That's how they managed to come out of the Midwest at a time when almost everybody else was from the East or West Coast. So don't dis them just cuz you prefer more simplistic shit.

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  General Comment:Arguably the best rap song ever

  Flag Naddy08on December 30, 2009   Link

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  General Comment:one of the illest raps ever spit on a track
  
  Biggie displays his greatest in his versatility, being able to adapt to the speed of Bone-Thugs so effortlessly. And doing so while still dropping one the best rhymes

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  General Comment:These lyrics are wrong. These may not be entirely correct, but they're closer. I honestly can't count how many times I've listened to this song.
  
  For Bizzy:
  
  It's not "Nigga Dean," it's "make it gleam." Refers to Mr. Clean line.
  It's not "In daily recruitin there's a tough law," it's "And daily recruitin, there's a thug born, everyday in the ghetto." Just clarifying, plus it makes more sense.
  
  For Krayzie:
  
  It's not "Thug spot," it's "Dank spot." To get a shot of burb.
  It's not "shot of bird," it's "shot of burb." What the hell does "shot of bird" mean?
  It's not "Up into my bag," it's "Up into my pad." He's gotta get his mask and shells.
  
  Oh god, Krayzie's part is all screwed up...
  
  Got a nigga callin though, (sounds like "callin do")
  For the Bone that's Leatherface, ***min and thuggin and cuttin (I can't tell what that word is after Leatherface, sounds like zoomin)
  Lil' mo harder pullin , ain't nothin (saying it's nothin to pull a trigger)
  Bitch if you steppin we buckin them guns, it's fucked up
  Now let me get done with the grime (might be crime)
  Gotta go purchase a dime
  Put in the state, nigga double the crime
  Smokin the reefer to ease my mind
  Swig some wine, step on the block with rocks
  But really me servin them dummies, see (clemency? haha)
  Gotta buck 'em on down if they come back talkin
  like gimme back me money
  Thuggin with me killers, need us a liter
  of liquor but niggaz ain't got shit
  Wit a sawed off chrome thirty-eight pistol (can't have a "pump" pistol)
  Now who ready to get it back
  Nigga like me fiendin for them green leaves
  But I ain't got no dough
  Gotta make some money so
  I'm makin my dummy rocks if I go broke
  
  For Layzie:
  
  Yeah, Little Lay hey comin in the form of scripture
  Finna get ya and hit ya wit magic
  Droppin down licks but I call on 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 booms on my ass, now whip out the cellular phone
  Call Bone, what's happenin?
  Grab artillery, niggaz start packin
  Cause a motherfucker try to get me in a jackin (car or drug), and I did him
  Hit him right between the eyes, spot his whites (whites of his eyes)
  Wanna test a nigga's size and it cost him
  Nigga fuck around wit the wrong shit
  Y'all get mo murdered all day all day
  We can play dat way and I'm on the run
  I'ma call my boys and bring all the guns
  Y'all niggaz wanna have a little fun wit number one
  One, one,
  Bloody red red rum rum rum rum rum rum
  Bloody red red rum rum rum rum rum rum
  Bloody red red rum

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    Double post, sorry.
    
    In "Now let me get done with the grime," it's not "done," it's "down."

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  General Comment:This song speaks for itself...no interpretation needed.

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  General Comment:"outcome- drugs and crime" to losemoney....
  He's not analyzing the song..more like the inspiration behind it. One would have to be blind to overlook the changes that have taken place in rap music. It started off as a form of expression to empower the African American voice and has since moved into the territory of godless blather. Drugs, women, crime are the major topics breeched. Music defines culture and vice versa. He is merely stating that by listening to the voice of the culture, it seems that things are backsliding.
  
  It's hard to tell tone on the computer, but this statement is purely analytical and not judgemental in any way. I don't know what tone the original poster intended to convey.
  
  Never stop questioning.

  Flag angelpawson May 27, 2008   Link

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  General Comment:"outcome—drugs and crime.
  In the song Notorious Thugs, the uneducated masses are revealed to play a destructive role, allowing themselves to be taken advantage of. During the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s, African Americans endeavored to improve their social situation, to galvanize prejudice’s final Gotterdammerung. Bone and Biggy adduce that as the 1990s dawned, black people found themselves atop a maelstrom of momentum and potential—only to be powerless due to infirmity and internecine struggle. Hitherto listening to Notorious Thugs, I was unaware of that the African American movement had achieved so much, only to be stopped before reaching the light at the end of the tunnel. It was Notorious Thugs which opened my eyes to this halt of progression, to the sequacious masses who live oblivious to their own kind’s misdeeds and voice scant opposition to rampant injustice."
  
  I think you over-analyzed this song a little bit...

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  General Comment:Correction: Greatest opening track of disc two of all time... Fo Sho...

  Flag duds11on September 05, 2007   Link

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  General Comment:::Greatest opening track of a rap album of all time
  
  it isnt an opening track to the album, its an opening track to disc 2.
  
  with that said its probably my fave. song from biggie.

  Flag jimnorton13on August 01, 2007   Link

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