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Monday, December 22, 2008

Brenda's got a baby

Through a mixture of common occurrences and law violation, Tupac's song titled "Brenda's Got a Baby" is able to strongly convey several influential messages to its listeners. The message of the song is about the issues of teen pregnancy which leads to unemployment and prostitution. Tupac wrote this song after he read a newspaper article about a 12 year old girl who got pregnant from her cousin but did not let her parents know and threw the baby down an incinerator and ended as a child prostitute. Child prostitution happens because of various reasons such as some are coerced, kidnapped, sold, deceived or otherwise trafficked into sexual slavery. Some come from educated, middle to upper-class families where they take to the streets out of rebellion or as away to escape sexual or physical abuse. Also many were born into a life on the streets with mothers and sisters also selling their bodies. It all comes down to one common denominator which is to earn quick money.I think media coverage is definitely good because after listening to that song it gives a strong message to the society to be more careful about their children and how they are treated because it could lead to many problems where you could lose your child. This is a controversial issue because when everybody found out that it was a true story, they respected the song even more and passed on the news

2 comments:

Alex said...

Just wanted to add that the song is from the early '90s, when there was a recession in the United States. This leads to a rise in unemployment, prostitution, etc.

Also, the music video can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wl54ABY8VgY and the lyrics can be found http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/2pac/brendasgotababy.html

Ms. Cat said...

interesting blog. thank you