Mother & Son Who Inspired 2Pac’s ‘Brenda’s Got a Baby’ Reunited After 34 Years

2Pac ‘s classic song “Brenda’s Got a Baby” was inspired by a true story — and the story continues.

How the Mother and Son From Tupac’s ‘Brenda’s Got a Baby’ Met For The First Time

Jeff Pearlman, author of the recently released Only God Can Judge Me: The Many Lives of Tupac Shakur, says he was instrumental in connecting the then-12-year-old girl, “Brenda,” immortalized in ...

RICHARD JOHNSON: Tupac’s ‘Brenda’s Got a Baby’ inspired by 1991 Daily News story

A 1991 story in the Daily News, about a pregnant 12-year-old from Brooklyn, served as the inspiration to the breakthrough ...
American Songwriter

Born on This Day in 1939, the Songwriter Who Wrote Timeless Hits for the Likes of George Jones, the Oak Ridge Boys, Merle Haggard, and Brenda Lee

Eighty-six years ago today, a prolific songwriter who penned hits for some of country music's biggest names was born in Oklahoma.