The author uses “splinters and boards torn up and places with no carpet on the floor” to depict the racism towards black people in the last century. In the poem Mother to Son, Hughes uses metaphors to show the difficulties facing a mother and the persistence she upholds to fight against the unfair life. They both use metaphors to emphasize the challenges and hope their effort would overcome the difficulties. Poems Mother to Son and The Rose That Grew from Concrete will show you how to rise above the oppression and challenges in similar ways. And you keep conquering the problems one by one. Imagine that your life starts getting harder and harder. Outside music, Shakur also gained considerable success as an actor, with his starring roles as Bishop in Juice (1992), Lucky in Poetic Justice (1993) where he starred alongside Janet Jackson, Ezekiel in Gridlock'd (1997), and Jake in Gang Related (1997), all garnering praise from critics.Mother to Son & The Rose That Grew from Concrete Rolling Stone named Shakur in its list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. In 2017, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility. In 2002, he was inducted into the Hip-Hop Hall of Fame. Shakur is one of the best-selling music artists of all time having sold over 75 million records worldwide. Five more albums have been released since his death, all of which have been certified platinum in the United States. G., Shakur's friend turned rival, was at first considered a suspect, but was also murdered in another drive-by shooting six months later.

On September 7, 1996, Shakur was shot four times by an unknown assailant in a drive-by shooting in Las Vegas he died six days later and the gunman was never captured. His double-disc album All Eyez on Me (1996) became certified Diamond by the RIAA. Shakur became heavily involved in the growing East Coast–West Coast hip hop rivalry between 19. Shakur achieved further critical and commercial success with his follow-up albums Strictly 4 My N. By the time he released his debut album 2Pacalypse Now in 1991, he had become a central figure in West Coast hip hop, introducing social issues in the genre at a time when gangsta rap was dominant in the mainstream. He moved to Los Angeles in 1993 to further pursue his music career.

Shakur was born in Manhattan, a borough of New York City, but relocated to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1988. Much of Shakur's work has been noted for addressing contemporary social issues that plagued inner cities, and he is considered a symbol of resistance and activism against inequality.

He is considered by many to be one of the most influential rappers of all time. Tupac Amaru Shakur ( TOO-pahk shə-KOOR born Lesane Parish Crooks, J– September 13, 1996), better known by his stage name 2Pac and by his alias Makaveli, was an American rapper, songwriter, and actor.

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