Biggie began rapping as a teenager to entertain people in his friends and family. After he got out of jail, he made a demo tape as Biggie Smalls. Biggie went to jail because of selling drugs.

The Notorious B.I.G tends to rap about situations in his life like want was going on when he was a child and when he was an adult. For example in one of his songs he said "Growing up in the streets of Bed-Stuy, it was hard, yo.” Also “I’m living every day like a hustle.” Biggie Smalls grew up hustling and no dad growing up so it was always always hard for him and his mother. Biggie Started to realiesed that school wasn't for him and Biggie was always getting introuble so he started to rap about what he was going threw. Biggie really started to turn his life around when he had his first daughter and one of his quotes is about Turing His life around is “Damn right I like the life I live because I went from negative to positive.”