Oh wow I am one of the most avid Tupac Amaru Shakur fans you will ever meet. I have bought every single one of his DVD(including Juice, poetic justic, gridlock'd and gang related) his books (the rose that grew from concrete among others" and simply other documentaries and memoriabilia. He is a great and extremely talented man that managed much especially from growing up in the Baltimore ghettoes. This book, which was his "biography" is no that at all. It is merely a recollection of his life and past attributes. I must say that I was disappointed by the fact that this wasn't a biography. I must say though that how could I have expected a true biography out of a man that has been dead for 8 years almost. Although I still read this book and enjoyed it, I must rate it 4 stars.