Tupac Amaru Shakur was named after an Inca Indian chief, "Tupac Amaru" means "Shining serpent" and "Shakur" means "thankful to god" in Arabic.

It's such a good book... not just because theres raps biggest on the cover but it expresses his ideas through poetry... far more than most of his songs can. Theres a sample of a poem from "The Rose That Grew From Concrete"

I Cry

By:Tupac Shakur

Sometimes when I'm alone I Cry, Cause I am on my own.
The tears I cry are bitter and warm.
They flow with life but take no form
I Cry because my heart is torn. I find it difficult to carry on.
If I had an ear to confiding, I would cry among my treasured friend,
but who do you know that stops that long, to help another carry on.
The world moves fast and it would rather pass by.
Then to stop and see what makes one cry, so painful and sad.
And sometimes... I Cry and no one cares about why.


picture this you've been wanting to make the team for a year... You play around in PBA/PBL, go to inter city, play for jr high team. during that time its crunch time.. You dedicated yourself 6 months to practice basketball.  Everyday, go to camp, play with the varsity, try your hardest and come home bleeding and have to ice your knee's for 30 minutes so they dont bother you for the next day of ball... 6 months and I got cut cause of some coach who didn't like me for my personality, 'not because of my skills, but because of who I am'...Because of how I look... Because I have an earring and baggy pants....dang...and funning thing is he cuts me in the 1st cuts and the next day he lets 4 kids try out, who haven't gone to camp, or played with the varisty, or bled and iced there knee's everynight. funny cause when I got cut I didn't care but now I do.

 lol funny thing is I always wanted to play for d3 and I thought making the team wood prepare me for d3.

right after they lost in the semi's at intercity a little girl looked at my black and red PBA jersey and asked me "How come your not crying?" Well dang I asked my self that today. "How come I wasn't crying?"  
                                  

ha i still love and 1 though   "where'd it go huh, I just bought that ball?!"

CALI MEMORIES! u never actually really realize what u had until itz gone....
Meeh, bad justin, n joshua


HAHA one of mah favorites... itz mah fave lil cuzin crying... I was pissing him off n making him cry by taking a picture of himcrying
Jed(crying), Kuya dennis(pissed off), Bad Justin(having fun laughing)