Assignment #11

2 Pac's Verse

"Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete?
Proving nature's law is wrong it learned to walk without having feet.
Funny it seems, but by keeping its dreams, it learned to breathe fresh air.
Long live the rose that grew from concrete when no one else ever cared.

To me this man was trying to get a point across that it shouldn't matter where you’re from, because if it did most people wouldn't be successful. The first line "Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete?" Is an expression of that even though things aren't supposed to be alive and grow in concrete that its possible, showing even though theirs a hard wall their not letting you make your way you must be strong and work hard to get through that cycle. And when you work hard and don't let anything bring you down, a beautiful thing came become of it, like this rose. And he's saying that he's proving nature is wrong that if you’re in the "hood" or "Ghetto" You can be better them most of your family or friends that there is better to life then what you can only see. That when you don't have something that the other person has you can learn do the something in a different way you have courage and when you have what you want you can’t let it go because you know how precious it is and how hard you have work for it.

He also explains that ”Funny it seems, but by keeping its dreams, it learned to breathe fresh air."

He explains that the flower just kept the dream of breathing fresh air and seeing the light of day was all it took. The rose never lost its faith in anyway what the rose wanted it got because it kept its mind on what was real to itself. Never forgetting what it wanted it got strength and thick roots break through that concrete and breathe fresh cool air. "Long live the rose that grew from concrete when no one else ever cared."
In a way the rose shows you that when you believe nothing is possible if you don’t put any effort or strength in what you believe, and even though everybody believed you couldn't make it or survive, now you can yell to the world and say look at me I made it and I did it without you, and even though you didn't care I made it here and I’m going to stay here.

To me this helps be believe that there’s going to be people out there who have doubts about me which are always going to happen. But I will keep my head up high and strong, without thinking and doing what makes me happy.