Back in the Day: My Life and Times with Tupac Shakur (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780306812958)

A legend after a bullet killed him at the age of twenty-five, Tupac Shakur was the most riveting rap musician of his day. Far from being the insolent "gangsta" the press put forth, Shakur was fiercely intelligent, fearless, and determined to make a mark. Darrin Bastfield grew up with him in a rough Baltimore neighborhood. In this vivid memoir, Bastfield reveals Tupac Shakur as the teenager he really was: bound for greatness.In tight, edgy prose, Bastfield recalls seven years of friendship. Shakur, new in town, a skinny thirteen-year-old in shabby clothes, may have looked uncool, but he blew the school away at a talent show, an electrifying performance. It was at the Baltimore School for the Arts, however, where things really started to happen-an encounter with Salt-N-Pepa, the wild night of the 1988 senior prom. Shakur and Bastfield lived through it together, and in this memoir, it all comes alive again.

Author: Darin Keith Bastfield
ISBN-10: 0306812959
ISBN-13: 9780306812958
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Language: English
Published: 09/18/2003
Pages: 182
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 8.18h x 5.56w x 0.56d

Review Citation(s):
Black Issues Book Review 03/01/2004 pg. 47