2pac was big in termns of musical influence, the beach boys waaaayyyy bigger and advanced studio recording techniques.
I dislike using wikipedia references but they are accessible and easily believed, so I include the following quote from the page of Brian Wilson (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Wilson), a beach boys drummer.
Brian Douglas Wilson (born June 20, 1942) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer best known for being the multi-tasking leader and co-founder of the Beach Boys. After signing with Capitol Records in 1962, Wilson wrote or co-wrote more than two dozen Top 40 hits for the group.[2] Because of his unorthodox approaches to song composition and arrangement and mastery of recording techniques, he is widely acknowledged as one of the most innovative and influential creative forces in popular music by critics and musicians alike.[3][4]
Wilson is credited as a major innovator in the field of music production,[6] and as the principal originator of the California Sound,[7] later becoming one of the most famous examples of the outsider musician.[8] According to Erik Davis, "Not only did [he] write a soundtrack to the early '60s, but Brian let loose a delicate and joyful art pop unique in music history and presaged the mellowness so fundamental to '70s California pop."[9] The A.V. Club wrote that Wilson was among "studio rats ... [that] set the pace for how pop music could and should sound in the Flower Power era: at once starry-eyed and wistful."[10] Only 21 years old when he received the freedom to produce his own records with total creative autonomy, he ignited an explosion of like-minded California producers, supplanting New York as the center of popular records,[11] and becoming the first rock producer to use the studio as its own instrument.[12] Wilson effectively set a precedent that allowed bands and artists to enter a recording studio and act as their own producers or co-producers.[13]"
Now I don't like the style of music, but can clearly see the influence it has had up until modern day. 2pac is pretty much as soft as the BB, and far less innovative
Have some words from Beelzebub, courtesy of Necro, a true and faithful servant of the golden path of drugs, death, satan and whores:
]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1x6Yx_He_NE]
