Tupac Shakur Author Jeff Pearlman Explains Exactly How He Found “Brenda’s Baby”

The Many Lives of Tupac Shakur, "Jeff Pearlman explains how he tracked down the real “Brenda” and her “baby” from the 1991 ...

The Mother And Son Who Inspired Tupac’s ‘Brenda’s Got A Baby’ Were Reunited By The Song, 30 Years Later

Rappers are often criticized for exaggerating their stories in their rhymes, but that proclivity has apparently reunited a mother and son, thirty years after she gave him up for adoption, courtesy of ...

Janet Jackson wanted Tupac Shakur to take an AIDS test before “Poetic Justice” kissing scene, new book claims

"I don't want to swap saliva with him until I'm really sure that he's healthy and clean," the singer told her producer, ...
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Here’s How the Child That Inspired 2Pac’s “Brenda’s Got a Baby” Finally Met His Mother

Jeff Pearlman found the people who inspired the classic 1991 2Pac song, which has reverberated through hip-hop myth-making ...
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Icons, pioneers, legends. 'Dear Mama' chronicles the legacies of Tupac Shakur and his mom Afeni

LOS ANGELES -- He is one of the most influential rappers of all time, an artist whose music is still relevant today, 27 years after his death. She was an influential member of the Black Panther party, ...

‘Everything in Our Lives Was Traumatic’: Tupac Shakur’s Early Years in Baltimore

In an excerpt from the Tupac Shakur bio 'Only God Can Judge Me,' by Jeff Pearlman, the rapper's sister and friends detail his ...