JUICY POLL

cant get "condos in queens..." line out of my head this morning

tough poll

this one doesn't look that great in print but it's great in the song

Birthdays was the worst days/Now we sip champagne when we thirst-ay

pretty much an impossible poll but i voted for Now I'm in the limelight 'cause I rhyme tight/Time to get paid, blow up like the World Trade

The Moet and Alize keep me pissy/Girls used to diss me/Now they write letters 'cause they miss me
Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis/When I was dead broke, man I couldn't picture this
And my whole crew is loungin'/Celebratin' every day, no more public housin'
We used to fuss when the landlord dissed us/No heat, wonder why Christmas missed us

i'm stuck on these

Super Nintendo Sega Genesis would be my 2nd choice

"Birthdays was the worst days" = always been the most poignant line for me

spread love, it's the Brooklyn way

really tough poll.

i had sardines for dinner last night. they're delicious.

holy shit i had no idea it was his fuckin birthday today

wtf that is some cosmic-ass shit

tbh im sick of the super nintendo line, but thats just after years of people falling out over it.

xp to samosa -- i love how he says NO HEAT. so many of these lines are just so like clipped and tough, man this is the best song.

DUH-HARRR DUH-HARRR

way back when I had a red and black lumberjack

ebertchicago

Birthday of Biggie Smalls. "Birthdays was the worst days. Wasn't that the truth growin up?" http://bit.ly/bjmhT4
about 8 hours ago via web

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well this is three years later, just the verses, rhymes in couplets/triplets, and also shut up

damn right i like the life i live

too hard to pick between "super nintendo, sega genesis", "Now honies play me close like butter played toast" and "birthdayzzzz was the worst dayzzzzz"

I always get misty-eyed when I actually pay attention to the verses on this. my favorite is going to

Stereotypes of a black male misunderstood/And it's still all good

which expresses my favorite thing about the song, which is that despite all the shit that Big's been through, he still has so much love, nothing but love, for the world - would have been so easy to make a song that said "fuck you, I've got mine, now go fuck yourself" but this isn't it.

Stereotypes of a black male misunderstood/And it's still all good.

You don't want to see me doing this at karaoke.

I always get misty-eyed when I actually pay attention to the verses on this.

same here

Blow up like the world trade.

between "birthdays was the worst days/now we sip champagne when we thirstayyy" and the classic opening line for me - "it was all a dream" just places you so effectively, taking you right back but looking forward.

"damn right I like the life I live/'cause I went from negative to positive" because it is the line I say to myself when things are going great & the line I try to reach for when things get hard - this line means a great deal to me. dyao & rev otm that this is an incredibly poignant lyric throughout.

^^^

i was also amazed when i read that originally Biggie himself did not really like this song. in fact, i think that he had to be talked into performing it live.

the video is so especially sad to watch nowadays, b/c we all know now how it would end.

Lex talked me into voting for the first line over "I let my tape rock" which would have just been for the great delivery.

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The Moet and Alize keep me pissy/Girls used to diss me/Now they write letters 'cause they miss me

^underrated

that's kind of inevitable b/c there are so many great lines in this song.

Peace to Ron G, Brucey B, Kid Capri/Funkmaster Flex, Lovebug Starsky

the first line is amazing indeed

What is the PDA Biggie uses in the video? Here's a picture

https://i.imgur.com/A0ob3tZ.png

looks like a sharp zq but i can't find one with buttons right under the screen

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― jabba hands, Saturday, May 22, 2010 12:01 AM bookmarkflaglink

well this is three years later, just the verses, rhymes in couplets/triplets, and also shut up

― 69, Saturday, May 22, 2010 2:04 AM bookmarkflaglink

xpost given the massive twitter and reddit threads to minutiae of details, I'm surprised there doesn't seem to be one on the PDA he uses. my googling isn't turning up anything and don't recognize the brand.

Reddit found it
https://old-organizers.com/MorePicts/MP114.htm