<P> Although she believes that her cousin (her baby's father) will stay with her and help her raise their child, he is merely a molester, and abandons her before she gives birth on the bathroom floor . She throws the baby into a trash bin but later retrieves it when she hears it crying . Her mother scolds her severely, and Brenda becomes so ashamed of herself that she runs away from home . </P> <P> Brenda is now forced to live alone, and unsuccessfully seeks employment . Her attempt to sell crack cocaine results in robbery, and eventually she views prostitution as her only way to earn money and survive . This life path leads to her getting murdered . The fates of her parents, her cousin, and the baby are left unexplained . The song's final minute consists of a chorus singing "Don't you know she's got a baby?" repeatedly . The beginning of the song can be heard in The Game's song "Street Riders" 2Pac has another song which he made late in his career which deals with this same subject called "Mama's Just a Little Girl". The song can be found on his fourth posthumous studio album Better Dayz . </P> <P> The video of the song is in black - and - white . It was made to visualize what Shakur narrates . The first part shows Shakur and "Brenda" and then the actual story starts . Ethel "Edy" Proctor portrays Brenda . </P> <P> The video begins with "based on a true story," although the characters themselves are fictitious, Shakur wrote the song after reading a story in the newspaper of a 12 - year - old girl getting pregnant by her cousin and trying to dispose of the baby in a trash can . </P>

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