Tupacs poem to me means that he come from a place where things do not grow and you stay under the radar and people walk all over you cause of where are you from. It also means that he rose above the expatiations of what people thought of him. He proved those people wrong. He got out of the rough life (concrete) and became something amazing (the rose). He broke through the barrier of the ghetto through a crack in the concrete of life and became something.
I can relate to this poem because I’m from the south valley. For those who don’t know it’s not the best or safest place here in Albuquerque. People in other parts look down on the south valley because of the reputation we have for having a lot of gangs and being ghetto and being the scary place they try to avoid. They look down on us and don’t expect anything from us kids. Are fate is sealed for us, you either go to jail or die. That is not true though most kids that I know from here are so smart and have more potential than anyone. Are life style is just different not because we chose this life but because god gave it to us. We deal with this lifestyle as if it’s nothing to us because it’s all we know. It does not mean we are not capable of becoming something great. In a way we are better and stronger because of the hard life we are given and that makes us stronger. We don’t sit around crying about how life sucks. We just take a deep breath and keep moving because we know everything gets better over time.
We can all become The Rose breaking through the concrete. That’s what Tupac was trying to say. He is telling us if we want to rise above the concrete of our hard lives then we can do it if we really want it.
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