Wednesday, September 26, 2007

 

Freewrite

Today in class English 201 students listened to Brenda's Got a Baby and Keep Ya Head Up. The question I asked students to respond to was: Discuss how Keep Ya Head Up is a letter of hope to Brenda.

I asked students to compose at least 10 sentences incorporating lyrics from the song where these lines from the lyrics help explain or illustrate what the writer is stating.

Note: An easy way to find evidence is to look at your statements and see where Tupac agrees with you in his writing. Use some direct quotes, at least 2 of the four. The other citations can be phrases and paraphrases.

Post your responses here. Don't forget to look for the writing assignment due next week. Reading assignments are to read: The Writing Process, Document Design and The Basics over the next week or two. Do the exercises and go on-line where indicated for additional assistance. When in the lab you can use Bedford Handbook to help you with your writing. The Bedford Handbook is also by Hacker.

For Monday, also read Chapter 5 in Holler. You should have a log prepared. Think about what role you'd like to assume in the Literature Circles we will establish Monday afternoon.

Comments:
In the song “Brenda’s Got a Baby,” by Tupac Shakur, the lyrics discusses the dreams of a girl and how those dreams are shattered by the choices that she makes along her life. Brenda is only 12 years old and already pregnant. One of her dreams is that she thinks she will be together with her boyfriend, but the lyrics say “He left her and she had the baby solo…” (Brenda’s Got a Baby) She endures all kinds of hardships by being alone and trying to keep the baby. But she couldn’t take it, “She wrapped tha baby up and threw him in the trash heap.” (Brenda’s Got a Baby) She thought there was no other choice. She left the baby and became a prostitute just to get money to survive because everything else she tried didn’t work. But in the song “Keep Ya Head Up” that Tupac wrote, it is somehow a letter of hope towards Brenda. Tupac writes “Daddy’s long gone and he left you by ya lonesome, Thank the Lord.” (Keep Ya Head Up) He’s trying to say that don’t get all upset because he left you, so it’s better to have him gone than to be with him. Through out the whole song, the chorus goes “Keep ya head up,ooo child things are gonna get easier, ooo child things are gonna get brighter.” (Keep Ya Head Up) Don’t worry if things do not go your way, look for hope, because good things come around.
 
Danny Tran
9/26/07
M W 1-3

Free Write

The two songs Brenda’s Got a Baby and Keep Ya Head Up by Tupac, is similar based on young female getting pregnant and having kids with no father. “He left her and she had a baby solo” from Brenda’s got a baby and “the ladies having a babies on they own” from keep ya head up, is the same thing. Where they end up having kids on their own and have no money to take care of them. They have to work in order to make the money to feed their child. But they have no money to pay for a baby sitter and they can’t keep a job for long. So their only choices are to sell drugs or to be a prostitute. They have no one to go to just because their family all cares about is having money goes to them. Their young daughter having a kid at the age or 12, and they don’t even care about them. From keep ya head up where Tupac said “They got money for wars, but they can’t feed the poor”, it also refers to Brenda’s got a baby because of Brenda has to be a prostitute in order to survive. As of where the government could of gave her money to support the child where she can have a baby sitter and to watch over her child, where she can have a decent job to have a little bit of better life.
 
Ernest D.
9-26-07
Mrs.Sabir
Freewrite:

“Keep Ya Head Up” by 2pac Shakur, is a song for woman to me. Its discussing situations that women go through. I also feel that it can motivate women when they are going through hard times. For example he says,” I know they like to beat ya down a lot, you come around the block brothaz clown a lot, Please don’t cry, dry your eyes, never let up.” Also in the chorus its saying things are going to get easier and get brighter.
“Brenda’s Got A Baby,” its talk about a dysfunctional family. It has a lot of incest in the song. He talks about a 12 year old girl in the struggle, then has a baby, and abandons it at birth inside of a school bathroom. I feel its letting parents know, also young adults to be a role model to children.
 
Debbie Adame
English 201 A Freewrite


The song “ Brenda`s got a Baby”, by Tupac Shakur, talks about a twelve year old Brenda who had a baby. She couldn’t afford to raise it, so therefore she throw it to the trash. Brenda is young “she barely got brain”; meaning she is just learning and experiencing about the world. Like the song says “A dam shame that girl can hardly spell her name.” She doesn’t don’t know anything and everything about the real world, and the adult life.
The song, “ Keep your head up,” is a letter of hope to Brenda, because it makes and gives her comfort and support at the same time. It tells her to “Keep ya head up,oooo child things are gonna get easier, oooo child things are gonna get brighter.” I think by keeping her head up, it`s going to make Brenda stronger, to be able to raise her child. Also that there is someone and somebody out in the world and help that she will get. Its seems like Brenda being so young and the fact that her parents weren’t their for her. because her parents they were involve in drugs and other activities, Brenda was lost, and she decided to prostitute herself, to be able to raised her child.
 
Jessica Ramos
9/26/07
English 201 A


The song ‘Brenda’s Got a Baby’ by Tupac is abut a young 12 year old girl who gets pregnant. No one in her family seemed to know that she was pregnant, so this means that there wasn’t much communication. Like Tupac said in the song: “She tried to hide her pregnancy, from her family who didn’t really care to see. Brenda is alone; she doesn’t have anyone to help her, she doesn’t have any money, which she needs, so she goes into the world of prostitution. We also heard the song ‘Keep Ya Head Up’ by Tupac. This song is about how men are always making women feel unworthy. How they just don’t treat them good and whenever they’re going to have a baby the men leave them alone. It’s a song telling women that even though they’ve gone through a lot of pain and hard times, they need to keep their head up and continue with life. We can hear in the song Tupac saying “I think it’s time to kill for our women, time to heal our women, be real to our women.” Women need to stay strong and keep living. This song could be a letter of hope to Brenda because is like telling her that even though she’s going through rough times, she’s going to be ok and everything is going to turn out fine. Brenda needs to keep her head up, and keep fighting so that she and her baby could have a better life. Brenda can’t let the men make her feel unworthy, she needs to show everyone that she can succeed by herself and have a better life.
 
“Keep Ya Head Up”, by Tupac Shakur would have been a letter of hope to Brenda if she were still alive. Unfortunately In the lyrics “prostitute found slain and Brenda’s her name” implies that Brenda was killed before she could make a change. When Tupac states in his lyrics “ I think that we can make it, in fact I’m sure and if you fall stand tall and come back for more” it breaths life into a thought that things could and will get better. Only if Brenda could have heard those words of encouragement, she would probably still be alive and making a difference.
Tupac also gave his shoulder to lean on when he said “Tupac cares, if don’t nobody else care. This demonstrates that the love he has for his people is unconditional. Although “Keep Ya Head Up and “Brenda’s got a Baby” are two different songs with many interpretations of what they mean, in my opinion Tupac expresses the same concerns and that is the well being of his people. Brenda’s story has affected many mothers who have traveled a similar road and lived to tell it to inspiring future generations to make a change.
 
Johnae wright
Sept.26 2007
Free write


“ I hear Brenda’s got a baby well, Brenda’s barely got to brain, a damn shame the girl can barely spell her name’s quote from tupac’s song Brenda’s got a baby. A young girl lost looking in all the wrong places for the that she doesn’t receive from her family. I personal feel that 2pacs “keep your head up” can defiantly be a letter of hope to Brenda because 2pac says a lot of things that young girls and most women need to hear. In the song keep your head up one of tupac’s most powerful lines was,” and when he tells you you aint nothing don’t believe him and he cant learn to love you, you should leave him. Cause sista you don’t need him” I feel this quote gives women especially Brenda hope because a lot of young women rely on men these days in order to feel confident, loved, appreciated, and powerful. I feel that we as women need something positive to listen to, especially from a man, in Brenda’s case I fell that “keep your head up can really be like a motivational speech that make young women in these type of situation’s to feel like they are not alone.
 
Free write Response:

As I listen to the profound words of “Brenda’s Got a Baby,” it talks to me about choices and consequences through poor decision making. It talks about a dysfunctional family and how Brenda, being 12, needed help with her struggle of conceiving a baby. “Her boyfriend was her cousin” tells me there was incest going on in the family. Brenda went through a lot for being so young; for being “in love with a molester.” It hurts to know that this harsh reality happens and still happens today. Even though “we are given this world, we didn’t make it,” life can take you through so much and sometimes life is not fair.
“Keep Ya Head Up” is a letter of hope to Brenda because “Tupac cares and no one else cares.” 2pac talks how he relates to all women and encourages them to “keep their head up” and to keep going, even though the going gets hard sometimes. He talks about how his mama helped raise him and how men need to step up and help our very own women. We shouldn’t mistreat women, but rather love them and treat them with respect. They are our mothers, our sisters, our friends, and our daughters. 2pac reminds the women they should “Forgive but don’t forget” because lessons are learned through remembering our past experiences. As a letter of hope for Brenda, Brenda should not settle and feel pity for her situation. She should rather keep her head up, raise her child with morals, and remind him of his roots and how he came out of the struggle, the effort, and drive of his mother.
 
Brnda had a baby by tupac is a song sayin how young black girl struggle in there
Black family was there no support. And how crack and money can take over.
some her choices was not the only ones she had. Sex was not going to helper her and selling drugs nether. she should have found a closet love one. keep ya head up by tupac is sayig to Brenda you got a baby, you can still be strong and stay focus pac “said don’t cry dry yo eyes never let up girl keep yo head up”.

pac all so said”sister u don’t need ‘em .
 
Sophia Andrews
Ms. Sabir


In Brenda has a baby by Tupac Shakur. Brenda was having a baby at the age of twelve. Which is clearly not old enough? He even states that she can barely even spell her name correctly. This is something that happens, not by choice but by the outcome of a matter that was caused by neglect ion of affection that a young girl not only wants, but also needs mentally and physically. Not being accepted, and acknowledge by her own parents at an age so young can only result in maybe a thought of change that Brenda can have that can give her the attention that she is craving. Well the route that Brenda took, by having a boyfriend within her family did not get her very far. She got pregnant, and only lost the little bit of attention that she was receiving, because now the father of her child bounced back to his position as a family member with no solutions to what now seems to be “her” problem. “Can’t go to her family they won’t let her stay”
(Quoted from Brenda’s got a baby)

“I blame my mother for turning my brother into a crack baby”

In Tupac’s song, keep your head up he talks about how it is his mother’s fault that his brother is a crack baby. In most cases as a younger person parents are usually who you look up to and follow, get direction from and etc. whether it be hereditary or something that you just pick up naturally from a parent. You are a product of your parents. With both of Brenda’s parents being junkies. Brenda had no proper guidance. Now it was obvious that she did not want to live the life that her parents did. This was explanatory through her throwing the baby away, however the only choices that she new how to make came from her guidance and not to leave the daddy out in the case but “And since we all came from a woman Got our name from a woman and our game from a woman..” As Tupac said, it is at fault of your mother. with Brenda only being twelve years old having and raising a baby with the knowledge from her mother and the neglect ion that she had how was she going to be a mother and how was her child going to be a mother?

: I was given this world, I didn’t make it”

no child ask to be here if any one is going to be on this earth we all must remember that we did not ask to be her we just got here so if your going to put us on this earth then we deserve the best. In addition, Brenda could not give her best!
 
Brenda is a young girl, who is just looking for Love, so she finds “Love” with her cousin who she thinks cares, and he ends up getting her pregnant, and leaving. She doesn’t know any better because she is only 12 years old. “I hear Brenda’s got a baby, Well Brenda’s barely got a brain. A damn shame…. She’s 12 years old and she’s got a baby.”
“In love wit tha molester, who’s sexed and crazy, and yet she thinks that he’ll be here forever, and dreams the world with them two together. I think “Keep Ya Head Up” By Tupac is telling women that no matter what you go through the struggle will be over soon. Tupac says “But please don’t cry, dry your eyes, never let up forgive but don’t forget keep your head up.” “You know what makes me unhappy when brothas make babies and leave a young mother to be a pappy”. All Tupac is saying that it may seem hard to get through it by yourself but have Faith. “Keep ya head up, oooo child things are gonna get easier, oooo child things are gonna get brighter.
 
September 26, 2007

Chesi Brown

In Brenda Got a Baby and Keep your head up by Tupac Skakur


This song represents women totally. This Genus who we call 2pac. Is touching so many issues we as black women face. Women who make wrong decision in their life. When Tupac address the point to women on welfare he care if don’t nobody ells care. He is speaking to young women who make wrong decision in their life and they don’t have purpuse funds to take care of them.

Women, who choose abusive men, seem to suffer. Tupac Shakur state in his song that to all the ladies haven babies on your own he know if kind a rough and you feeling all alone. He touches the point of men not taking care of their responsibility. He tell the women to keep their head up because he care, he sees the struggles these women are going through. Brenda is from a family of junkies. Tupac said that about her mom and her dad. He states in the song that she wasn’t educated so she couldn’t keep a job so she sees sex as a way, but ends up getting robbed. Brenda believes that sex was the only was she could get and give love. She was molested by her step father, what kind of life is that she is in love with a man who is sleeping with her mother. When I hear this song it make me feel so sad, it hurts me.

This song open my eyes to be a better mother. To love my child and watch who around her. It also shows me to never give myself to drugs, because it blocks your mind from your responsibility.

On top of all this worry she ends up producing a baby and believes she isn’t good enough for motherhood. She fears, the responsibility of being judge. Her mother except her to be a perfect daughter by raising her self. Being depress, confused, and misguided lead her and her baby to death.
 
Sophia Andrews
Ms. Sabir


In Brenda has a baby by Tupac Shakur. Brenda was having a baby at the age of twelve. Which is clearly not old enough? He even states that she can barely even spell her name correctly. This is something that happens, not by choice but by the outcome of a matter that was caused by neglect ion of affection that a young girl not only wants, but also needs mentally and physically. Not being accepted, and acknowledge by her own parents at an age so young can only result in maybe a thought of change that Brenda can have that can give her the attention that she is craving. Well the route that Brenda took, by having a boyfriend within her family did not get her very far. She got pregnant, and only lost the little bit of attention that she was receiving, because now the father of her child bounced back to his position as a family member with no solutions to what now seems to be “her” problem. “Can’t go to her family they won’t let her stay”
(Quoted from Brenda’s got a baby)

“I blame my mother for turning my brother into a crack baby”

In Tupac’s song, keep your head up he talks about how it is his mother’s fault that his brother is a crack baby. In most cases as a younger person parents are usually who you look up to and follow, get direction from and etc. whether it be hereditary or something that you just pick up naturally from a parent. You are a product of your parents. With both of Brenda’s parents being junkies. Brenda had no proper guidance. Now it was obvious that she did not want to live the life that her parents did. This was explanatory through her throwing the baby away, however the only choices that she new how to make came from her guidance and not to leave the daddy out in the case but “And since we all came from a woman Got our name from a woman and our game from a woman..” As Tupac said, it is at fault of your mother. with Brenda only being twelve years old having and raising a baby with the knowledge from her mother and the neglect ion that she had how was she going to be a mother and how was her child going to be a mother?

: I was given this world, I didn’t make it”

no child ask to be here if any one is going to be on this earth we all must remember that we did not ask to be her we just got here so if your going to put us on this earth then we deserve the best. In addition, Brenda could not give her best!
 
Deon Johnson
Free write
9.26.07

Keep ya head up, by Tupac is an open acknowledgement to the song Brenda’s Got a Baby, also written by Tupac. It is saluting the same things, same points in each song. I feel the overall point is choices and not feeling like your alone, cause your not. Keep ya head up, clearly states, in one (1) verses of the song, “Ladies havin babies on they own, I know its kind’ve rough and your feelin all alone.” Concurring with the song. Brenda’s Got a Baby. “He left her (the molester, her cousin, that’s sexed and crazy) had tha baby solo…”
It is interesting to me. How the same songs, different years, different albums can concur with each other. Did Tupac do it purposely? Did he know what he was doing?
I believe a good point, that both songs express is the strength. “Dying inside, but outside you’re looking fearless.” In addition, the verse in Brenda’s Got a Baby, “She tried to hide her pregnancy, from her family…”
The songs, itself are very touching, makes you think, and analyze your life. Lately, in 2007, people are saying that Hip Hop does not have any meaning behind them. To them I say, listen to Tupac songs. Brenda’s Got a Baby and Keep Ya Head Up.
 
BLKROB


To me the song keep ya head up was an up lifting song to brenda’s got a baby. In keep ya head up in a verse 2pac says “when brothers make baby& leaves a young mother to be a pappy” . That to me was just another way to make women realize that they have choice in life. In brenda’s got a baby 2pac made similar point. The verse “He left her and she had the baby solo, on the bathroom floor” . stated that real men will be there for there kid and fake men will leave a women on the floor. The two song that we heard today shows a lot of struggles that women go threw dealing with men& life. When 2pac said “I wounder why we take from our women. Why we rape our women do we hate our women “ to me says that men don’t appreciate how wonderful it is to have a queen in there lives. Instead of building women up we are always tern them down. Not knowing that leads a women to the streets and prostitution like 2pac stated in brenda’s got a baby says” so she see sex as a way of leaven hell” in reality sell your body is not a way out of hell its another way to death. Like 2pac said “ another prostitute slang& Brenda was her name” Women know that it’s a better day if you put god first have bless day.
 
“Brenda’s got a baby”, “Brenda keeps your head up”, theses word not only shed light on a growing problem in “black” ghettos but gives hope to those girls that are struggling. Tupac gives them the advice of staying strong and also lets them know that he feels their pain. In Brenda’s got a baby Tupac states “that not her problem that’s up ta Brenda’s family well, let me show you how it affects the whole community” and proceeds to break down a sequence of events that include child molestation drugs and a series of abuse that led to Brenda’s misfortunate circumstance. Both song are laced with hurt and sadness for Tupac saw and felt one of the many problems facing the community and these to song are this solutions. -Chinasa Ozonsi-
 
Brenda’s got a Baby

In Tupac’s song Brenda’s got a baby. We have this 12 year old girl who

Becomes pregnant by her boyfriend who is also her cousin. Example: “In love with tha

Molester, who’s sexed and crazy and yet she thinks that he’ll be with he forever and

Dreams of a world with tha two of them are together”. That’s all it was to this young girl

Was a dream. He left he all along with a baby now 12 year old Brenda has to live with the

Consequences of their action “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

ta sell creak, but end up getting robbed so now what’s next, there aint nothing left to sell

so she sees sex as a way of leavin in hell it’s payin tha rent, so really can’t complain....”.

This is the only way felt she had to make her own way. You can’t blame a young girl with

No family to try and find an easy way out that works

“Keep ya head up. Oooo child things are gonna get easier Oooo child thing are

Gonna get brighter”. That’s the chorus to Tupac’s song Keep your head up. I believe

that is good hope for Brenda because it shows her that thing won’t always stay bad they

will get better as time goes on.”Cuz sista you don’t need him and I aint trying to gash up,

I just call it how I see em” Is a good point because every women or young girl always

feel that they need the daddy to be there and Tupac just showed that they don’t. But it is

wrong how the men treat woman because we are the reason for there being. So if woman

Want a change they have to get up and make it for themselves.
 
Tupac’s songs (Brenda’s Got a Baby), and (Keep ya head up) are two very different but similar songs. One makes you feel sad while the other puts hope in you heart; but nevertheless they help us understand ourselves better. (Keep ya head up) by Tupac Shakur is like a letter of hope to Brenda in a way. “Keep ya Head Up” is such a good song to struggling mothers and women in general because it symbolizes hope. Hope for a better day, even though it is though, you need to “Keep Ya Head Up”. It is like a letter of hope to Brenda because in the song (Brenda’s Got a Baby) she is pregnant by someone who is no one. For example, in the song Tupac say’s “She’s 12 years old and she’s having a baby in love with the molester who’s sexed and crazy.” Which relates to this passage from “Keep Ya Head Up”, “and if he can’t learn to love you you should leave him cuz sista you don’t need him.” That is a message for Brenda right there. The other passage from “keep ya head up” that is a letter of hope to Brenda is “and uhh to all the ladies havin babies on they own I know its kinda rough and your feelin all alone daddy’s gone and he left you by ya lonesome.” Which relates to this passage from “Brenda’s Got a Baby” “he left her and she had the baby solo, she had it on tha bathroom floor.” These two passages relate because Tupac is trying to get women to thinking that you’re never alone.
 
Mario Talavera
Ms Sabir

In the song “Brenda’s got a baby” Brenda had a baby at the age of 12, she was so young that she had no experience, and as the song says (that’s not her problem, that’s up to Brenda’s family). But Brenda was alone in the world without anybody to give her advice supports her or help her. Brenda sees easy money as a way to solve this whole situation “so she sees sex as a way of leaving hell, and it’s paying the rent so she can’t really complain”. This tells us how Brenda had to sell her body for living.
The song “keep your head up” tells us how hard are the lives of women, and their struggle to overcome all this horrible things that sometimes they have to face, and it makes it even harder when they don’t have anybody else to support them, that they see prostitution or drugs as a way out, but as the songs says “I know you fed up ladies, but keep your head up, ooo child things are gonna get brighter.
 
Deanna Moody


In Brenda’s having a baby, by Tupac Shakur, he’s talking about a young girl who was pregnant and barely knew anything about a baby let alone her own life. “ Now Brenda’s belly getting bigger But no one seems to notice any change in her figure.” She tried to hide her pregnancy from her parents but it was not a use because they didn’t pay her any attention. She ran to a man who she thought would be there for here since her family wasn’t, but when she got pregnant he left her and she had to raise her child on her own. “In love with the molester, who’s sexed and crazy, And yet she thinks that he’ll be with here forever.” In Keep your head up, by Tupac tells woman that you have to keep your head up no matter what you go threw. “But please don’t cry, dry your eyes, never let up. Forgive but don’t forget…… And if he cant learn to love you you should leave him cuz sista you don’t need him.” You don’t need a man to help you, you can make your own money in a positive way and still make it in life, there may be struggles but you can over come them. Also he talks bout how a man would leave his woman when a woman gave them everything. “And since a man cant make one he has no right to tell a woman when and where to create one.” No man has the right to try and be in control of a woman who created them they need to have respect for all women.
 
The response letter to the song
“Brenda Got a Baby”

The song “Brenda got a baby” I learnt that how life was difficult for Brenda . First, the song tells about the 12 years old Brenda how she was face this world. Also, When she was 12 she got a baby but she doesn’t know she got a baby she want to through the baby in a garbage. She thinks that it will be to difficult to live and the world turn up side down to her. This is very disaster to our whole community who is the person who push her to have sex with him, why who is the stupid person makes her to cry day and night
In conclusion, the song “Brenda Got a baby” teaches me that even if it is Brenda’s family it affects the all our sisters and mothers in the world. Therefore, all men have to learn from the song that it affects to the internal life of the community, especially to the person being the victim. Thanks to Tupac for his interesting song.
 
Brittany Wilson



In the song Brenda’s got a baby by Tupac Shakur, a 12 yr old girl who got pregnant by her cousin she was dating. He leaves her when she has the baby. Even though the baby’s father leaves Brenda, she could have had other options and resources. In the song keep ya head up Tupac says, “I give a holler to my sisters on welfare”, maybe if Brenda knew about all the assistance out there she wouldn’t have had to prostitute. Seemed like she was using all the wrong resources like in Brenda’s got a baby song he says “she tried to sell crack, but end up getting robbed”. Maybe if someone had told Brenda as Tupac says in his song “keep ya head up’: ‘please don’t cry, dry your eyes, never let up forgive but don’t forget keep ya head up,” she would have had a little hope and courage to make better choices than she did. It would have made her feel less alone. In keep ya head up Tupac says, “I remember Marvin Gaye used to sing ta me he had me feelin like black was the thing to be, and suddenly tha ghetto didn’t seem so tough” if Brenda had a Tupac like Tupac had a Marvin to listen to it wouldn’t have been as tough for little Brenda to Keep her head up”
 
H Nafey
English 201 A
Professor Sabir
In Tupac Shakur’s song, “Brenda’s got a Baby,” he describes the choices that Brenda made in her life. He points out that Brenda is only twelve years old, and she is raising a child though she is child herself. Brenda has no job or education, and her family is not there to support her. As a result, she ends up selling her body in order to provide for her child. Compared to “Brenda’s got a Baby,” “Keep Ya Heads up” also talks about women, and problems that they face as single mothers. In “Keep Ya Heads Up,” Tupac gives hope to women, who are going through rough times, and asks men to make some changes and try to be there for their women. Tupac mentions in “Keep Ya Heads up,” “It is time to heal our women, be real to our women and if don’t then we’ll have a race if babies that hate the ladies that make the babies.” Through these lyrics he encourages men to be more supportive of their women. In “Keep Ya Heads Up,” Tupac also adds, “Daddy’s long gone and he left you by ya lonesome,” I believe this line is very similar to the situation of Brenda because she got pregnant, and the father of her child is not there to support her. In brief, both songs explore the issues of teen pregnancy, and its effect on the young mothers. He also addresses the issue of lack of respect toward women generation.
 
Keep Ya Head Up can easily be viewed as Tupac way of opening himself up to Brenda, his story is an inspiration for her to overcome her troubles. He is letting her know that although she has faced many hardships, always keep your head up and look to a brighter day. He references his own father in the verse “Cause aint nuttin
worse than when your son wants to know why his daddy don’t love him no mo’ His father left him at an early age and in the song “Brenda’s Got A Baby”, her unborn child’s father left her as well. Tupac’s was showing her that she isn’t the only one in this
What really speaks out to me in Keep Ya Head Up Is The beginning of the last verse…
“And uhh, To all the ladies havin babies on they own I know it’s kinda rough and you’re feelin all alone Daddy’s long gone and he left you by ya lonesome Thank the Lord for my kids, even if nobody else want tem Cause I think we can make it, in fact, I’m sure And if you fall, stand tall and come back for more “
To sum it up, this is a piece that all young, old, single, and lost mothers need to hear. He’s giving them an outlet. Endure the struggle, gain strength from it and become prosperous! And honestly, I think he speaks of himself, the fatherless child, his father, who was the dead beat, and his mother, because his mother was another “Brenda”, only he actually
All that Tupac is conveying to all the “Brenda’s” or the like is that no matter what
you go through, it’s a war, and it’s up to you to overcome it with the victory in the end. No one ever said it would be easy, nor do you have to like it, but I live by the quote that “Only the strong survive”!!!
 
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