![]() ![]() He is the rose that seeks care and nutrition from the wild and still manages to make a better life for himself out of it. He portrays his neighborhood as a place only good at recreating messes without giving any nourishment or love to the people coming from it. The famed American rapper used the poem to represent his life and how he emanated from a place meaningless to society. While portraying the unnatural occurrence of the growth of a rose plant out of a concrete wall, he was trying to show how nature grows defiantly out of the confines of human structures. It has a preface by Afeni Shakur, his mother, Nikki Giovanni’s foreword and an introduction by Leila Stenberg, his manager. Pocket Books published it posthumously in 1999. The phrase comes from a poetry collection by Tupac Shakur from 1989 to around 1991. ![]()
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