Press Box Chronicles with Jeff Pearlman
Ep.12 - Press Box Chronicles - Brenda's Baby
Season 2, Episode 12
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Talk Show, Sports, Music, 20-Oct-2025
Today, on the 34-year anniversary of the song, we are diving into a story that is maybe my greatest accomplishment as a journalist in my career. It's 1991, and Tupac Shakur has just released his debut album '2pacalypse Now' with his smash hit single 'Brenda's Got A Baby.' It's a song about a young woman who gives birth to a son on the floor of her kitchen and leaves him in a trash heap. It's a harrowing story that hits deeply for many and is one of his biggest hits to date. Except the story was real. It was based on a real woman. And a real baby. And I found them both.
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