The Tragic Forgotten Tale That Inspired Tupac’s “Brenda’s Got A Baby”
A Downward Spiral
Brenda wasn’t ready for the cutthroat life, things just caught up to her eventually. A customer decided to rob her assuming she was weak. She lost her entire stock at hand, it was devastating for her. Things wouldn’t have turned out this way if Brenda was able to keep a stable job.
That just wasn’t possible, however, as Shakur meant to highlight. A child can’t be expected to tend to an infant while working as an employee. The kind of jobs she could get lacked the basic benefits she needed to make sure of her child’s care and safety while she was away. Brenda was poor, she couldn’t afford a daytime nanny.
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