By Selwyn Duke

Tupac Shakur is known by some as having been a criminal rapper who was murdered in 1996, at age 25, in what reportedly was gangland retaliation. But now he can be known as something else:

A “literary” figure whose work is taught in school.

This came to light after a father reported that his seventh-grade son’s class was asked to read one of Shakur’s poems and evaluate its meaning. The unnamed school is in Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, reports Newsweek, and Shakur composed the poem, “The Rose that Grew from Concrete,” when he was 19.

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