"The Rose That Grew from Concrete." Tupac Shakur, the rapper known as 2Pac, once wrote a poem for his childhood friend Jada Pinkett Smith in which he confessed his lifelong love for her.

The artist, who died in 2018, talked about that in a 1991 interview excerpted on his website, robertindiana.com, saying he equated his paintings with his poetry: “The ‘LOVE’ is a concrete ...