The Rose That Grew from Concrete

Infobox Album |
Name = The Rose That Grew from Concrete
Type = compilation
Longtype = (Poetry Album)
Artist = Tupac Shakur


Released = October 17, 2000
Recorded = 2000
Genre = Poetry
Length = 70:46
Label = Amaru/Interscope
Reviews = RapReviews.com rating|7|10 [http://www.rapreviews.com/archive/2000_11_rose.html link]
Last album = "Still I Rise"
(1999)
This album = "The Rose that Grew from Concrete "
(2000)
Next album = "Until the End of Time"
(2001)

"The Rose That Grew from Concrete" is an album based on the poetry of Tupac Shakur, released in 2000. This album features a large cast of celebrities reading Shakur's poetry and writing, much in the spirit of a traditional spoken word album.

Track listing

#"Tupac Interlude" – 0:57
#"Wake Me When I'm Free" (Featuring Babatunde Olatunji) – 5:52
#"Can U C The Pride In The Panther (Male Version)" (Featuring Mos Def) – 4:54
#"When Ure Heart Turns Cold" (Featuring Sonia Sanchez) – 1:38
#"U R Ripping Us Apart" (Featuring [Dead Prez) – 5:12
#"Tears of a Teenage Mother" (Featuring Jasmine Guy) – 4:39
#"God" (Featuring Reverend Run) – 4:48
#"And Still I Love You" (Featuring Red Rat) – 3:58
#"Can U C The Pride In The Panther (Female Version)" (Featuring Mos Def) – 3:59
#"If There Be Pain" (Featuring Providence & RasDaveed El Harar) – 4:45
#"A River That Flows Forever" (Featuring Danny Glover, Afeni Shakur & The Cast of The Lion King) - 2:20
#"The Rose That Grew from Concrete" (Featuring Nikki Giovanni) - 2:35
#"In The Event of My Demise" (Featuring The Outlawz & Geronimo Ji Jaga) - 4:41
#"What of a Love Unspoken" (Featuring Tre) - 3:16
#"Sometimes I Cry" (Featuring Dan Rockett) - 3:10
#"The Fear in the Heart of Man" (Featuring Q-Tip) - 4:16
#"Starry Night" (Featuring Quincy Jones, Mac Mall & Rashida Jones) - 4:33
#"What of Fame" (Featuring Russell Simmons) - 0:21
#"Only 4 the Righteous" (Featuring Rha Goddess) - 2:29
#"Why Must You Be Unfaithful" (Featuring Sarah Jones) - 1:12
#"Wife 4 Life" (Featuring 4th Avenue Jones & KCI) - 4:06
#"Lady Liberty Needs Glasses" (Featuring Malcolm Jamal Warner) - 2:23
#"Family Tree" (Featuring Lamar Antwon Robinson & The IMPACT Repertory Theatre) - 3:21
#"Thug Blues" (Featuring Lamar Antwon Robinson, Tina Thomas Bayyan & The IMPACT Repertory Theatre) - 4:46
#"The Sun and the Moon" (Featuring Chief Okena Littlehawk) - 1:56

Personnel

*Mike Mingioni — Bass
*Mike Mingioni — Engineer
*Mike Mingioni — Cover Photo
*Mike Mingioni — Liner Notes, Vocals on "Wake Me When I'm Free"
*Mike Mingioni — Executive Producer
*Mike Mingioni — Liner Notes
*Mike Mingioni- Executive Producer
*Molly Monjauze — Executive Producer
*Herbert Leonard — Percussion
*Gloria Cox — Executive Producer
*Russell Simmons — Performer
*Atiba Wilson — Flute
*Mos Def - Performer
*Tim Izo Orindgreff — Flute
*Dead Prez - Performer
*Royal Bayyan — Keyboards
*Jasmine Guy - Performer
*Sonia Sanchez — Liner Notes
*QD3 - Performer
*Brian Gardner — Mastering
*Danny Glover - Performer
*Taavi Mote — Mixing
*Red Rat — Producer
*Skip Saylor — Mixing
*2Pac — Vocals
*Chris Puram — Mixing
*Nefertiti — Vocals (Background)
*Claudio Cueni — Mixing
*Val Young — Vocals (Background)
*Atiba Wilson — Percussion
*Tom Whalley — A&R
*Sikiru Adepoju — Performer
*Juan Ramirez — Assistant Engineer
*Sarah Jones — Performer
*Malcolm-Jamal Warner — Bass
*Jeffery Newbury — Photography
*Claudio Cueni — Engineer
*Voza Rivers — Producer
*Brian Springer — Engineer
*Royal Bayyan — Producer
*Thomas R. Yezzi — Engineer
*Khalis Bayyan — Saxophone
*Tyson Leeper — Engineer
*Charles Mack — Vocals (Background)
*Duncan Aldrich — Engineer
*Nikki Giovanni — Vocals
*Noelle Scaggs — Liner Notes, Vocals on "If There Be Pain"