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Maybe 2pac was right...Maybe it is just me against the world.

— Aubrey ODay

A lot of people in my era didn't grow up on 2Pac, they grew up on me.

— Boosie

We didn't have any problem with 2Pac. We liked his music.

— Prodigy

2Pac made me want to rap, he made me want to speak my ghetto story and not be ashamed of it.

— Boosie

2Pac was a homie, y'know, we met him through the Digital Underground squad.

— B-Real

My fans come tell me I'm their 2Pac. Their mamas who love 2Pac come tell me that I'm the closest to 2Pac.

— Boosie

If we're evaluating cool to the way other rappers appear to be cool, then I'm not cool at all.

— Lil Dicky

I grew up around hip-hop so I didn't think it was about being cool or being black or being white or whatever.

— Chad Hugo

I followed the footsteps of Scarface, Willie D, Bushwick Bill, Big Pokey, Lil Keke, Fat Pat, Big Moe, and Slim Thug. Those are the…

— Paul Wall

I was a big hip hop girl, and still am, I listened to artists like Wu Tang, and K'Naan, but I was a particular…

— Zoe Buckman

Tupac the son of the Black Panther, and Tupac the rider. Those are the two people inside of me. I was raised off those…

— Tupac Shakur

Tupac has always been somebody who represented a higher consciousness of what it means on both sides of the coin to be black in…

— Kat Graham