Tupac Shakur

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Tupac Shakur was a poet, an actor and the voice of a generation. He was able to make movies and videos, write and record music, and still found time to write remarkable poetry before his untimely death. His poetry was only published after his death in a collection of over 100 poems titled autobiographically 'The Rose That Grew From Concrete.' This paper includes an excerpt of the said poem as well as an analysis of the themes and literary tools used.

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" Every era has its classically wonderful artists. Every now and then, there is an artist who truly surprises everyone and breaks barriers for every category of artist that existed before he or she. For our time, that surprisingly (or not so surprisingly to some) talented artist is one Tupac Amaru Shakur. Tupac Amaru are Inca words that mean Shining Serpent. Shakur means thankful to God in Arabic. He was a person who is and was thought of as only an unruly gang-related thug. Although he referred to himself as a thug, he once stated in an interview "you know I'm a business man because you only find me at my places of business." His places of business were the recording studio or on the set of a movie or video."

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