Notorious B.I.G. - Big Poppa

To all the ladies in the place with style and grace
Allow me to lace these lyrical duches in your bushes
Who rock grooves and make moves with all the mommies?
The back of the club, sippin Moet, is where you'll find me
The back of the club, mackin hoes, my crew's behind me
Mad question askin, blunt passin, music blastin
But I just can't quit
Because one of these honies Biggie gots ta creep with
Sleep with, keep the ep a secret why not
Why blow up my spot cause we both got hot
Now check it, I got more Mack than Craig and in the bed
Believe me sweety I got enough to feed the needy
No need to be greedy I got mad friends with Benz's
C-notes by the layers, true fuckin players
Jump in the Rover and come over
tell your friends jump in the GS3, I got the chronic by the tree
(I love it when you call me Big Pop-pa)
Throw your hands in the air, if youse a true player
(I love it when you call me Big Pop-pa)
To the honies gettin money playin n* like dummies
(I love it when you call me Big Pop-pa)
If you got a gun up in your waist please don't shoot up the place
Cause I see some ladies tonight who should be havin my baby, baby
Straight up honey really I'm askin
Most of these n* think they be mackin but they be actin
Who they attractin with that line,
"What's your name, what's your sign"?
Soon as he buy that wine I just creep up from behind
And ask what your interests are, "who you be with"?
Things to make you smile, what numbers to dial
You gon' be here for a while, I'm gon' go call my crew
You go call your crew
We can rendezvous at the bar around two
Plans to leave, throw the keys to Lil Cease
Pull the truck up, front, and roll up the next blunt
So we can steam on the way to the telly go fill my belly
A t-bone steak, cheese eggs and Welch's grape
Conversate for a few, cause in a few, we gon' do
What we came to do, ain't that right boo? (truuuueee)
Forget the telly we just go to the crib
and watch a movie in the jacuzzi smoke l's while you do me
(How ya livin Biggie Smallz?) In mansion and Benz's
Givin ends to my friends and it feels stupendous
Tremendous cream, fuck a Dollar and a Dream (whaat)
Still tote gats strapped with infrared beams
Choppin o's, smokin lye an' Optimo's
Money hoes and clothes all a n* knows
A foolish pleasure, whatever
I had to find the buried treasure, so grams I had to measure
However living better now, Gucci sweater now
Drop top BM's I'm the man girlfriend
(Honey check it, (check it)
Tell your friends, to get with my friends (your friends)
And we can be friends
Shit we can do this every weekend (that's right)
Aight? Is that aight with you? Yeah... keep bangin)

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To all of the attractive, stylish females in the establishment
Allow me to light these joint-like words for you
Who is an excellent rapper and popular with females?
I am often seen in nightclubs sipping Moet champagne
Conversing with ladies, surrounded by my entourage
I make inquiries of them while smoking cigar rappers
filled with marijuana
I have to do this as I am very horny and need
to have sex with a woman
It will need to be a secret rendezvous
As I will not risk my ladyfriend finding out about the affair
Just because I am so horny.
I am a very suave man, not unlike Craig Mack (1)
I have enough stamina and style to please multiple women
I also have many associates who drive Mercedes Benz’s
The have many $100 bills and engage in many
money making activities
Climb inside my Range Rover and tell your friends to get
in the Lexus GS3
I have many grams of high grade marijuana

I love it when you refer to me as “Big Poppa”
Put your hands above your head and wave if you make
money from illegal activities
I love it when you refer to me as “Big Poppa”
This is dedicated to women who con men for money
I love it when you refer to me as “Big Poppa”
If you are armed, please do not shoot at any one in the nightclub
Because there are many attractive ladies here that
I would like to impregnate, impregnate

I am honestly approaching you for a date
Many of these other men think they are smooth but appear foolish
They have outdated pickup lines
So after they have invested money in buying a woman a drink
I approach her and engage her in conversation that would interest her
I make her laugh and ask her for her phone
friends and my friends can make plans to leave the
nightclub together at 2 am
I give my car keys to Lil’ Cease (2)
We get in the car and prepare another cigar
rappers filled with marijuana
So we can get high on the way to my house
I eat a steak, eggs and Welch’s grape juice
We talk for a minute before I have sex with her
while I smoke a marijuana cigarette and watch a movie in the jacuzzi

I am living very well in a mansion and driving Mercedes Benz’s
I give my friends money and it is highly gratifying
I have a great deal of money, regardless of the moral
message of "A Dollar and a Dream" (3)
I still carry guns with infared sights
I smoke a lot of marijuana in Optimo cigars
All I car about is money, loose women and stylish apparel
It may be foolish but I was forced to sell cocaine for money
But now I am much better off in life and wear Gucci sweaters
I drive BMW convertibles and am well generally regarded


(1) Rapper popular in the early 1990’s and the first to break out on Bad Boy Records. Biggie’s guest appearance on Craig Mack's “Flava in Ya Ear,” produced by Sean “P. Diddy” Combs, was the world’s first introduction to his laid back delivery and charismatic persona.

(2) Self-described “short, dark and chocolate” cousin of Biggie and fellow former member of rap collective Junior M.A.F.I.A. The name is short for “Lil’ Caesar,” which ostensibly refers to the erstwhile ruler of Rome and not the now defunct pizza chain.

(3) Reference to “A Dollar and a Dream” by Carl Weber, a collection of stories which describes the negative effect of greed on a group of African-Americans.