81. "I've been in this game for years, it made me an animal/It's rules to this shit, I wrote me a manual." - The Notorious B.I.G.

Song: "Ten Crack Commandments" (1997)
Album: Life After Death

If you're about to instruct potential crack dealers on the rules of the game, you'd better assert not just your mastery of the craft, but the definitive nature of it. Biggie's opening salvo claims years of experience that transformed him permanently, and you'd better listen close, because it's not going to get any more instructional than this. He couldn't have been more right.