The Tragic Forgotten Tale That Inspired Tupac’s “Brenda’s Got A Baby”
Living Life Handicapped
One of those issues was teenage pregnancies. The way this situation was handled showed that young women growing up in the ghettos were at risk of falling prey to it. The outcome of getting pregnant at a young age was brutal, conditions like that lead to the teen not being able to properly integrate into society.
Shakur wrote a song about this incident to highlight how these young women faced odds that limited them like a low chance of finishing their education or participating in the workforce. The economic stress that came from living under bad conditions would only get exacerbated after adding a newborn baby into the mix.
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