2Pac Album: “The Rose That Grew From Concrete...”

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Full Title: The Rose That Grew From Concrete Vol. 1. Personnel includes: 2Pac, Q Tip, Mos Def, Outlawz, Geronimo Pratt, Dead Prez, Tre, K-Ci & Jo Jo, 4th Avenue Jones, Babatunde Olatunge, Danny Glover, Quincy Jones, Russell Simmons, Nikki Giovanni, Sarah Jones, Malcolm Jamal Warner, Sonya Sanchez, Lamar Antwon Robinson, Rha Goddess, Dan Rockett, Mac Mall. Producers include: Jamal Joseph, QD3, Eric Rico, Voza Rivers, Mos Def. Engineers include: Tyson Leeper, Michael Dunston, Denis Degher. Includes liner notes by Afeni Shakur. Tupac Shakur's work and iconic importance have attracted an even greater degree of respect and attention after his death than they did during his lifetime. Unparalleled in the hip-hop world, Tupac's posthumous fame finds its precedents in rockers like Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison, bad boys whose message was deeper than their hedonistic image suggested. The Tupac legacy continues apace with THE ROSE THAT GREW FROM CONCRETE. Essentially a various artists collection, it finds a wide variety of artists contributing spoken word performances of Shakur's poetry. Dashes of jazz, reggae, funk, and hip-hop accompany rapper Mos Def, poet Nikki Giovanni, actor Danny Glover, and others as they interpret the prose of the late rapper. Despite Shakur's gangsta image, most of his poems reflect a belief in positive social change through the efforts of an enlightened community that he sought to encourage.

Most people know 2pac for his banging beats and hardcore gangsta rhymes. But there are a certaine number of us that really hear what 2pac is saying is his albums, he is talking about the struggles he has gone through in his life, and his ideas of life in prodomonently African American neighborhoods around the US. This album, "the rose that grew from concrete" shows the true side of tupac at his best. The poetry on this album is a great example of his concern about important issues that surround america. His poems, although spoken by other individuals hit hard. My favorite ones on the album are, Pride of the panther, tears of a teenage mother, the rose that grew from concrete, and if there be pain. Go pick up this new album if you really want to hear what 2pac has been trying to say in his songs, it is a great cd, and should not be avoided.

This album wasn't as good as I was hoping for. Tupac was a legend and reading his poetry helps see deeper inside his soul. It is basically a cd you might listen to once or twice and thats about it. My two favourite tracks are Wife for life and In the event of my demise!! I would only recommend this to true tupac fans who just really love anything related to tupac!! Its nice to have in a collection is all!!!

No one can deny that Pac was a great poet, but this album wasn't all that great. It would have been better if he were reciting the poems. Although the readers do an okay job, no one capture Pac's emotions like Pac. This would have been a better book because the reader can imagine Pac's voice reciting it. That is what you have to do with this album. If you can, listen to the words, but imagine Pac's voice saying them. Hard to do right? The album is good, but as a Pac fan, it doesn't feel like a Pac album.

Have u ever read a book that you think is just great? Well this book is one of them books. Tupac Shakur was just amazing with both his poetry and his music sometimes his music what you would call the cleanest but he had a point for what he was saying in all of it. This book is one of the best poetry books that i've ever read, If u like to listen to Rap music or are a Tupac Shakur fan then you will deffitaly like this book. Tupac in this book is just amazing he says things that will just stop and make you think about what is really going on in life and how much bad things there is that goes on in this world. Tupacs' poetry is a must read tho.

Once again, the legend of Amaru strives on. This album, being the latest of the greatest of all time is a MUST have for any hardcore hip-hop fan. Although no track on the CD has Tupac's lyrical greatness, this album still delivers. This is Pac's mind. These are his poems. This is one you have to sit down and listen to. Understanding these poems, lets you dive deeper into the mind of the greatest lyricist of all time. This is definately a great buy. If you don't have it get it... somehow...