| "Brenda's Got a Baby" | |
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 Single by 2Pac from the album "2Pacalypse Now" | |
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Released |
October 20, 1991 |
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Format |
12-inch single |
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Recorded |
1991 |
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Genre(s) |
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Length |
3:55 |
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Label |
Interscope |
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Songwriter(s) |
Tupac Shakur, D. Evans |
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Producer(s) |
Deion "Big D" Evans, The Underground Railroad |
"Brenda's Got a Baby" is the second single by Tupac Shakur. It is the tenth track on his debut album, 2Pacalypse Now. The song, which features R&B singer Dave Hollister, is about a 12-year-old girl named Brenda who lives in a ghetto and has a baby she can't support. The song explores the issue of teen pregnancy and its effect on young mothers and their families. Like many of Shakur's songs, "Brenda's Got a Baby" draws from the plight of the impoverished. Using Brenda to represent young mothers in general, Shakur criticises the low level of support from the baby's father, the government, and society in general. Shakur wrote the song when he read a newspaper article about a 12-year-old girl who became pregnant by her cousin and threw the baby into a trash compactor.
