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