It Has Been Said-The Notorious B.I.G.

[ti:It Has Been Said] [ar:The Notorious B.I.G] [al:Duets: The Final Chapter] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]It Has Been Said - The Notorious B.I.G. [00:02.43]It has been, it has been, it has been [00:05.29]It has been said, [00:06.39]That there has been known to be bloodshed [00:08.54]Over bread, [00:09.33]Men who have bled to death, dead [00:11.57]Strapped to beds, pipe bombs, dynamite, [00:14.54]Lead money power respect, street cred, yeah [00:17.26]It's scary ain't it? [00:18.42]Picture yourself going out as a hero [00:20.49]Picture mural pictures of us painted [00:22.39]All over street corners [00:23.66]Fans meet to mourn us, [00:25.23]While we meet the coroners [00:26.52]Notorious tried to warn us [00:28.56]We watched, [00:29.33]So many Biggie backed off of [00:30.80]Biggie's back and 'Pac's, landmarks, history in rap [00:34.62]Statistically in fact; [00:36.08]It's so sad to see us re-enact [00:38.13]These tragic events, which lead us back [00:40.34]To where we left off on March 9th [00:42.14]To come from such hard knock lifes [00:43.67]And make it up out of them, hit the spotlights [00:46.13]And, once they're on us this is our lives [00:48.21]Thrust out for all eyes to cast upon us [00:50.04]To see who can last the longest [00:51.58]And he who lasts the longest, [00:53.03]Must be the strongest [00:54.63]In this concrete jungle, [00:55.78]Where this dog eat dog mentality comes from [00:58.23]It's origin, [00:59.04]Which is usually originated from cats who starving [01:02.22]Or it could just be somebody's horror, [01:04.15]That just horri-fies [01:05.71]And applies to his persona or the sizes [01:08.02]In his entou-rage, that intimidates the people [01:10.90]To the point that you know that he's gangster [01:13.07]He ain't just say sh*t, you just believe it [01:14.79]Since B.I.B. taught us niggaz to think big [01:16.99]I'm been about my business since then, [01:18.48]So anxious [01:19.19]It ain't how we live, [01:20.41]It's what he said, [01:21.31]He did it for Brooklyn [01:22.81]This I took in, sent chills through my skin [01:25.34]Vicious, I'm experiencin the same sights as him [01:28.31]It's what excited Obie to write these poems [01:31.49]Rolling, going through the same sh*t he spoken [01:34.50]Open up my eyes so there's no limit in them skies [01:36.97]When Ready to Die was a sick part of my life [01:39.80]Palmin that forty-five, plottin to pop my mind [01:42.55]Then that crooked eye Jamaican [01:43.79]I'd so many times rewind [01:45.49]Got me to walk a straight line and get up on my grind [01:48.35]Get up out the system, [01:49.79]Who could give him better signs [01:51.43]No pop of mine could top Big Poppa rhymes [01:54.30]So possibly I'd be popular huh? [01:57.11]That's the inspiration I got from my ni**a B.I. [01:59.35]I took him from coal to diamond, [02:01.11]I molded his mind [02:02.09]Enter the most phenomenal artist of any and all time [02:05.68]I made a Frankenstein, [02:06.90]My design impressed [02:08.29]Backpackers and press who said my house was a mess [02:11.13]Critics lashed, [02:11.78]Said I made a fortune off of his passin [02:13.97]All I did was build a dynasty, off of his passion [02:16.79]And I'm addressing the adolesencents absent to who he is [02:19.67]The original king of New York, [02:21.21]Christopher Wallace... [02:21.83]This is a promise on Diddy's honor, [02:23.91]I'm a father T'Yanna [02:25.53]And teach her that with all the drama [02:27.20]Don't even bother... [02:28.14]On repeat, all of your albums play back to back [02:31.17]And I visit your grave cause our friendship's intact [02:33.97]An immaculate concept, extravagant progress [02:37.07]Bullet wounds left in my heart, I'm yellin "God bless" [02:40.01]Regardless to critics yellin that East/West [02:42.28]I seen the game losing, [02:43.70]I'm just pressing the reset [02:45.24]And when the ressurection of you shines through an individual [02:48.45]Lyrical enough to wear the same crown of thorns literally! [02:51.51]I'ma pay homage, Brooklyn's finest [02:53.84]Whether it's Queens or Harlem [02:55.42]It'll be instant stardom, ni**a!