Back In The Day My Life And Times With Tupac Shakur

by Bastfield, Darin Keith

• ISBN13: 9780306812958
• ISBN10: 0306812959
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-09-18
• Publisher: Da Capo
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Summary

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 Biography

Darrin Keith Bastfield is the founder/CEO of Born Busy Productions. He lives in Baltimore.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Prologue
Introduction
His Name Is What?!	p. 1
Roland Park	p. 15
First Shows	p. 26
Breaking the Ice	p. 40
Spring Fever	p. 45
3955 Greenmount Avenue	p. 53
A Revolutionary	p. 63
Building Friendships	p. 69
Birth of Born Busy	p. 84
On His Own: First Apartment	p. 90
Bedroom Studio	p. 95
The Twenty-Man Battle	p. 99
To Be a Shakespearean Actor	p. 107
Busboys vs. Dishwashers	p. 123
Prom Night	p. 130
Off to the Bronx	p. 135
The Show: Our Dream of a Break	p. 151
He Made It	p. 164
Epilogue
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