Quotes About Influence

Tunisia will continue to be a source of influence, not through its size but through the ideas and the models that it represents.

I wanted to go to Berklee College of Music because that's where Steve Vai went - I was total tunnel vision.

I'm better than Tupac and Biggie. I say that so now you know where my head at.

Allen Iverson was the Tupac of basketball; he was a true revolutionary.

He's been my number one influence. If you say Tupac didn't influence you, then you don't really need to be rapping because nobody evokes that kind of emotion on a track like Tupac does.

My Mom and my Pops liked Tupac a lot.

Tupac was a glorious person, and he had all the right intentions.

You know, Tupac is very near and dear to my heart. He started my career as an actor.

I would say Tupac influenced me the most to start rapping, but as far as a female icon that I've looked up to since I was six or seven is definitely Gwen Stefani.

My dad's Nigerian, and I remember going to Nigeria, and all of these kids and adults and everyone in-between knew who TuPac was. They had TuPac t-shirts, TuPac posters, TuPac cassettes... everyone knew TuPac, and sometimes that was the only English that they spoke, was TuPac lyrics.

Tupac loved to read! Books were a constant part of his life.

Even after his death, Tupac is as powerful as he was when he was living.

I like Jay-Z. I love Luda. I love Ledisi. I like Beyonce, of course. I think she's just brilliant. She's a triple threat. But my favorite - my all-time rapper is Tupac. See, I could have been Tupac's girlfriend.

A lot of people say I tried to emulate Tupac, but when I look back at my career, we're very different artists. I took pages out of Pac's book, of course, and lots of other rappers - Biggie, Nas - of course you take pages out of those books, but you eventually make it your own thing. And I think I did a good job of that.

I was a super-duper Tupac fan, and I realized later, when I became a huge Nas fan and a huge Eminem fan, I was drawn to the storytellers. They all told stories in different ways, but they were all like the best storytellers.

Biggie Smalls, Jay-Z, Nas, Eminem, Big L, Tupac. That was, like, my top five, generally.

Everything my fans tell me is the way I felt when I was a Tupac fan coming up. My fans tell me, 'Boosie will make you feel like you was in the household watching everything that was happening to me, with your music.' That's how Tupac made me feel, like everything he was talking about I was living. My music do that, you know?

No rapper in the world from Jay-Z to Tupac to Biggie has 100 percent love on everything they do.

My biggest influence is Tupac. He was a poet, and listening to Tupac is what inspired me to start rapping.

I think people have gotten to know Tupac much better since he's been gone than they did when he was here.

Believe or not, love me or hate me, YoungBoy is Tupac, man.

I loved B.I.G., but not like I liked Tupac, because he was an actor, so I related to him.

They use all of the music that I did in the '50s, '60s and the '70s behind people like Tupac and LL Cool J. I'm into all that stuff.

Tupac is huge; he's an inspiration. Arguably, he's probably the biggest, most analyzed and loved artist of all time.