Tupac's The Rose That Grew From Concre

Tupac, one of the most influential and acclaimed rappers of all time, wrote The Rose That Grew From Concrete, a very insightful poem that integrates itself deeply with societal roles. For my visual representation I decided to first draw the imagery the poem creates, that is the rose that grew from concrete. I interpreted that because Tupac and the people he associated himself with were apart of minority groups, himself being shot to his death in a gang-related crime; because of this I believed that the rose growing from concrete was an analogy for the rare success of someone from an harsh and challenging upbringing. The rose and those in minority groups both have it extremely difficult to rise from where they are expected. The rose arises …show more content…
Why should someone apart of a minority group spend years analyzing Shakespeare when they could be providing much needed financial aid for their family at a young age? Accounting for all of this, when someone of African American or Hispanic descent actually manages to graduate from high school and move onto higher level education, they are either shunned by their community for breaking societal roles or are not accepted and integrated properly into the workforce, even if they spent twice the effort to enter it in the first place. A rose growing from concrete is virtually unheard of but Tupac raises the question, would anyone even care if a rose grew from concrete? Would anyone care if someone broke their societal roles and tried to work towards an honest working life? It makes me sad that the United States political and economic system is set up in this way, intentionally making it extremely difficult for people to break through the poverty