Brenda's Got A Baby

Brenda's got a Baby.
Brenda's got a Baby.

I hear Brenda's got a baby, but Brenda's barely got a brain.
A damn shame, the girl can hardly spell her name.
That's not our problem, that's up to Brenda's family.
Well let me show you how it affects our whole community.
Now Brenda never really knew her moms,
and her dad was a junky puttin' death in to his arms.
It's sad 'cause I bet Brenda doesn't even know,
just cause you're in the ghetto doesn't mean you can't grow.
But oh, that's a thought, my own revelation,
do whatever it takes to resist the temptation.
Brenda got herself a boyfriend
Her boyfriend was her cousin, now let's watch the joy end.
She tried to hide her pregnancy, from a family
who didn't really care to see, or give a damn if she
went out and had a church of kids,
as long as when the check came they got first dibs.
Now Brenda's belly's getting bigger,
but no one seems to notice any change in her figure.
She's 12 years old and she's having a baby.
In love with the molester, who's sexin' her crazy.
And yet, and oh, she thinks that he'll be with her forever,
and dreams of a world where the two of them are together, whatever.
He left her and she had the baby solo, she had it on the bathroom floor
and didn't know so, she didn't know, what to throw away and what to keep.
She wrapped tha baby up and threw him in the trash heap.
I guess she thought she'd get away, wouldn't hear the cries.
She didn't realize how much the little baby had her eyes.
Now the baby's in a trash heap balling.
Momma can't help him, but it hurts to hear him calling.
Brenda wants to run away.
Momma say "You makin' me lose pay, and social workers here everyday."
Now Brenda's got to make her own way.
Can't go to her family, they won't let her stay.
No money, no babysitter, she couldn't keep a job.
She tried to sell crack, but ended up getting robbed.
So now what's next, there ain't nothing left to sell,
So she sees sex as a way of leaving hell.
It's paying the rent, so she really can't complain.
Prostitute found slain, and Brenda's her name. She's got a baby.

Baby,
Don't you know she's got,
Don't you know she's got,
Don't you know she's got,
Don't you know she's got a baby?

Repeat & fade...




Transcription 1993 by Jim Moore for Relativity Labs.
Written by Tupac Shakur, D. Evans.
Copyright 1991 Interscope Records. All Rights Reserved.
Used without permisson.