<Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Music video </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> "Brenda's Got a Baby" on YouTube </Td> </Tr> <P> "Brenda's Got a Baby" is the solo debut single by Tupac Shakur, and tenth track from his debut album, 2Pacalypse Now . The song, which features R&B singer Dave Hollister, is about a twelve - year - old girl named Brenda who lives in a ghetto, has a baby, and is incapable of supporting it . 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 twelve - year - old girl who became pregnant from her cousin and threw the baby in a trash compactor . </P> <P> The opening consists of a duet singing the song's title twice . Much of the rest of the song is one long verse performed by Tupac . </P>

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