# Back In The Day

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- Authors: [Darrin Keith Bastfield](https://www.bookquiver.com/darrin-keith-bastfield)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2003-09-18

## Description

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 neighbourhood. 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.

## Editions

### Back in the Day

- Publisher: one_world
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-03-0783-115-6
- Published: 2013-01-16
- Language: en_US

### Back In The Day

- Publisher: da_capo_press
- ISBN: 978-03-0681-295-8
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2003-09-18
- Language: en_GB