Brenda's Got a Baby

"Brenda's Got a Baby"
Single by 2Pac
from the album 2Pacalypse Now
B-side"If My Homie Calls"
ReleasedOctober 20, 1991
Recorded1991
GenreConscious hip hop
Length3:55
Label
Songwriter(s)
  • Tupac Shakur
  • Deon "Big D the Impossible" Evans
Producer(s)The Underground Railroad
2Pac singles chronology
"Trapped"
(1991)
"Brenda's Got a Baby"
(1991)
"If My Homie Calls"
(1991)
Music video
"Brenda's Got a Baby" on YouTube
Audio sample

"Brenda's Got a Baby" is a song by American rapper 2Pac from his debut album, 2Pacalypse Now (1991). The song was first released as a promotional CD single a month prior to album's release and then, in February 1992, it was re-released as a double A-side single with the song "If My Homie Calls". The song, which features R&B singer Dave Hollister singing background vocals with Roniece Levias, 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 while filming the feature film Juice, after reading a newspaper article about a 12-year-old girl who became pregnant by her cousin and threw the baby into a trash heap.[1]

  1. ^ Hedges, Chris (March 29, 1990). "A Child-Mother in the Jaws of New York". The New York Times. Retrieved July 23, 2016.