Tupac The Rose That Grew From Concrete Analysis

On September 29, 2015, I visited the Tupac Shakur painting at Robert W. Woodruff library. Tupac was a legend and still is even after being desist for over eighteen years. Tupac was born in June 16, 1971 in East Harlem, New York. He was not just a rapper but also a poet, one of his most popular poem is “The rose that grew from concrete.” Pac wrote the poem before he was famous, the poem is about how he came from nothing and sees himself as something beautiful that can succeed from a turbulent and hostile environment.
The painting was done so elegantly, it showcase the real Tupac that we all remember. Pac was desist the year before I was born. I remember my father playing his songs every morning driving me to school. The sound in his voice was not like any artist, he had that anger, and hunger in his voice that just make you feel what his rapping about. My father and I favorite song is “Ambitionz az a ridah” that song just leave you in that mindset that anything is possible no matter where you came from, or how much money you have or don’t have. …show more content…
Artist now all talk about the same things having money, women, and living that beautiful luxurious lifestyle. I feel like not everybody can connect with that, because not everybody grown up having luxury and fame in their life. Tupac talked about real life crisis that everyday people deal with. For example Future, his music is good but it’s meaningless theirs no connection to his songs, it’s just music to get hyped to nothing more. Not just that his language is difficult to understand at most because he use hood language instead of proper English terms. I like to listen to songs that I feel a connection with, that I can somewhat relate to personally. It’s difficult to find in this generation where all these artist speak on the same