THE ROSE THAT GREW FROM CONCRETE LYRICS

The Rose That Grew from Concrete
Poetry album by 2Pac
Released	October 17, 2000
Recorded	2000
Length	70:46
Label	Amaru Ent / Interscope
Producers	Mike Mingioni (exec.), Molly Monjauze(exec.), Gloria Cox(exec.), Red Rat, Voza Rivers, Royal Bayyan
Chart Info / RIAA certification
Chart Highs: #28 R&B, #89 Pop       Certified Gold: n/a
HipHopDOA Album Rating
3 out of 5

Album Lyrics

1) Tupac Interlude
2) Wake Me When I’m Free
3) Can U C the Pride in the Panther
4) When Ure Heart Turns Cold
5) U R Ripping Us Apart
6) Tears of a Teenage Mother
7) God
8.) And Still I Love You
9) Can U C the Pride in the Panther
10) If There Be Pain
11) River That Flows Forever
12) Rose That Grew from Concrete
13) In The Event Of My Demise
14) What of a Love Unspoken
15) Sometimes I Cry
16) Fear in the Heart of Man
17) Starry Night
18) What of Fame
19) Only 4 the Righteous
20) Why Must You Be Unfaithful
21) Wife 4 Life
22) Lady Liberty Needs Glasses
23) Family Tree
24) Thug Blues
25) Sun and the Moon

The Rose That Grew from Concrete Album Info: (from HipHopDOA.com)

The Rose That Grew from Concrete is an Tupac album unlike any of his other previous official album releases. Rather than featuring 2Pac’s music this album focuses on Tupac’s poetry. The album aims to highlight Tupac’s powerful poetry to his fans who already know him as a powerful hip hop lyricist.

The album was released on Amaru Entertainment/Interscope Records on October 17, 2000 and features a large cast of celebrities reading Tupac’s poetry and writing, much in the spirit of a traditional spoken word album.

The celebrities reading Tupac’s poetry on the album include Hip Hop’s Mos Def, Dead Prez, Reverend Run, Mac Mall, K-Ci, Q-Tip, Russell Simmons, and Tupac’s own rap group The Outlawz. ‘Pac’s friends and family make appearances aswell with Afeni Shakur, Tupac’s mother, reading her son’s poetry as does Jasmine Guy, who was a good friend of Tupac’s. Jasmine first met Tupac through her costar on A Different World, Jada Pinkett-Smith, and Jada also features on the album too. Guy later collaborated with Shakur’s mother, Afeni, to write a biography of her life as a former Black Panther………
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