I have stated from time to time that Tupac Shakur was one of my favourites but not in just rapping but as a person, he is someone I tend to look up too.I have said he made a difference and he did make an impact in many people. He was inspirational to many peoples today...and not just artists in the music industry. You might be surprised about who he has inspired if you just look a little into it. I had heard he was a poet but I had never really read any of his work.
I still feel Tupac was a great man and it has been over 10 years since his death. Hell, Tupac was named #6 of the '100 immortal artists of all time' behind the people like Elvis and Lennon. That tells you something.
So, last night I had watched a documentary that i had been waiting to see for some time and it got me interested in looking up and remind myself of what kind of things he accomplished. (this video was "welcome 2 deathrow"
This is when I found this quote that I find really speaks to me in so many ways...I dont think I can or will go into how it speaks to me. I will let you, the readers, decide what you think:
"If you walked by a street and you was walking on the concrete and you saw a rose growing from the concrete, even if it had messed up petals and it was a little to the side you would marvel at just seeing a rose grow through concrete. So why is it that when you see some ghetto kid grow out of the dirtiest circumstance and he can talk and he can sit across the room and make you cry, make you laugh, all you can talk about is my dirty rose, my dirty stems and how I am leaning crooked to the side, you can't even see that I've come up from out of that"
All I really want to say about this is, amongst other things that I thought about, it opened my eyes to how the world can be truely hypocritical. The rose is an obvious metaphor that he speaks about. He was the rose from concrete. The concrete was his tough life and his perseverence. If there was 1 thing I have learned from this simple quote, and that is you need to stand tall for what you believe in and you need to fight for it. These are the first steps in life to make a difference and not just as a race or country but as a people of this world
If you dont fight for what you want and what you need in life...who will?
I still feel Tupac was a great man and it has been over 10 years since his death. Hell, Tupac was named #6 of the '100 immortal artists of all time' behind the people like Elvis and Lennon. That tells you something.
So, last night I had watched a documentary that i had been waiting to see for some time and it got me interested in looking up and remind myself of what kind of things he accomplished. (this video was "welcome 2 deathrow"
This is when I found this quote that I find really speaks to me in so many ways...I dont think I can or will go into how it speaks to me. I will let you, the readers, decide what you think:
"If you walked by a street and you was walking on the concrete and you saw a rose growing from the concrete, even if it had messed up petals and it was a little to the side you would marvel at just seeing a rose grow through concrete. So why is it that when you see some ghetto kid grow out of the dirtiest circumstance and he can talk and he can sit across the room and make you cry, make you laugh, all you can talk about is my dirty rose, my dirty stems and how I am leaning crooked to the side, you can't even see that I've come up from out of that"
All I really want to say about this is, amongst other things that I thought about, it opened my eyes to how the world can be truely hypocritical. The rose is an obvious metaphor that he speaks about. He was the rose from concrete. The concrete was his tough life and his perseverence. If there was 1 thing I have learned from this simple quote, and that is you need to stand tall for what you believe in and you need to fight for it. These are the first steps in life to make a difference and not just as a race or country but as a people of this world
If you dont fight for what you want and what you need in life...who will?
posted by Eric Conboy at 1:58 p.m.
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