Brenda's Got a Baby

[Intro: Dave Hollister]

Yeah

Brenda's got a baby

Say it one more time, Brenda

Brenda's got a baby

[Verse: 2Pac]

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 really never knew her moms

And her dad was a junkie, puttin' death into 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 her family

Who really didn't 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 gettin' bigger

But no one seems to notice any change in her figure

She's twelve years old and she's havin' a baby

In love with a molester, who's sexin' her crazy

And yet and all 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 the baby up and threw him in a 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 the trash heap, bawlin'

Mama can't help her, but it hurts to hear her callin'

Brenda wants to run away

Mama say "You makin' me lose pay

There's social workers here every day"

Now Brenda's gotta 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 end up gettin' robbed

So now, what's next? It ain't nothin' left to sell

So she sees sex as a way of leavin' hell

It's payin' the rent, so she really can't complain

Prostitute found slain, and Brenda's her name

She's got a baby

[Outro]

Baby (Oh, oh, oh yeah, yeah)

Don't you know she's got a

Don't you know she's got a

Don't you know she's got a baby? (She's got a baby)

Don't you know she's got a

Don't you know she's got a

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

Don't you know she's got a

Don't you know she's got a

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

Don't you know she's got a

Don't you know she's got a

Don't you know she's got a baby? (She's got no food to eat)

Don't you know she's got a

Don't you know she's got a

Don't you know she's got a baby? (Yeah)

Don't you know she's got a

Don't you know she's got a

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