Quotes About Tupac

I'm not motivated by money or fame. I'm more driven by the electricity of creativity. The idea of being one of the legends that inspired me, being like Tupac.

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

I kinda got an old soul a little bit, I listen to a lot of Tupac before my games, Tupac and Biggie.

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.

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.

That's what Tupac and I got from my dad - the rebellion and the need to fight back and be recognized for being different.

I speak my mind. That's what we loved Tupac for.

All we ever wanted was for Tupac to have the opportunity to tell his story.

I'm not Tupac or this prophetic dude or anything like that. I just want to make music and have fun.

Tupac is my favorite artist, and he had mad style.

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?

Whatever else anyone says he was, he may have been. But Tupac really was a great American artist. The passage of time allows us to see things as they really are: We see the poetry; we see the personality; we see different sides.

With Biggie, I thought his flow and his swag was better than Tupac's, but I thought Tupac's passion and ability to relate to the average person was better than Biggie, and I thought Nas was kind of like both, with a lot substance going but a lot of swag.

Nas always been my favorite rapper, but 50 Cent, he changed my way of thinking about music 'cause he was so detailed in his music, I knew that wasn't lying. I never felt Tupac that way; I never felt Biggie that way. I love Nas music, but I never felt and believed like, 'This is for real.' 'Cause I grew up that gangsta lifestyle.

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

Tupac was actually pro-choice, which is fantastic. Of course, those moments in rap are few and far between.

I think what it was is that Tupac was extremely passionate, very honest and raw in his approach to communicating. He understood communicating. And I think he just did it from a deep place within.

I think that Tupac was the trendsetter, the high mark. What we hope his music will continue to do is to at least encourage people away from mediocrity, because he was not a mediocre artist. When he was alive, people competed. There was a lot of competition, and a lot of the artists were better for it.

Who doesn't love Tupac? Those records have such swagger to them. The groove is just incredible.

You'll get a kid in Liberia wearing a Tupac T-shirt, and for us, that's zef. People try to say it's like trash, but it's not really trash. It's putting things together you think are cool.

I believe it is our responsibility to make sure that Tupac's entire body of work is made available for his fans.