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2Pac – Brenda’s Got A Baby

Sarah Kitchener — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 02:23:36 +0000

“Brenda’s Got a Baby” is the solo debut single by Tupac Shakur, and tenth track from his debut album, 2Pacalypse Now. The song, which features R&B singer Dave Hollister, is about a fictional twelve-year-old girl named Brenda who lives in a ghetto, has a baby, and is incapable of supporting it. The song explores the issue of teen pregnancy and its effect on the young mothers and their families. Like many of Shakur’s songs, “Brenda’s Got a Baby” draws from the plight of the impoverished. Using Brenda to represent young mothers in general, Shakur criticises the low level of support from the babies’ father, the government, and society in general. Shakur wrote the song when he read a newspaper article about a twelve-year-old girl who got pregnant from her cousin and, because she didn’t want her parents to know about the baby, threw it in a trash can. The opening consists of a duet singing the songs title repeatedly. Much of the rest of the song is one long verse performed by Tupac. The verse begins with him telling a group that he has heard about Brendas pregnancy. He also notes that the girl has had virtually no education in her life, having only barely obtained minimal skills in writing, and calls this a “damn shame”, criticizing and has little hope in life. Her family is very poor, and her father is a heroin addict. Brenda is impregnated by her unnamed boyfriend, who is her cousin, but she is successfully able to hide her pregnancy. Tupac explains that it wouldnt matter to …

Persnal Trainer Interview – Post Pregnancy Exercise 1 of 2

Sarah Kitchener — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 20:30:47 +0000

www.Zegee.com Learn how to work out after giving birth to your baby. Helene Byrne has the answer for you. This is an interview about her work and background. Host I want to welcome everyone to a personal training series of interviews for Zegee.com. This interview is with Helene Byrne from Oakland, California. She is the creator and founder of befitmom.com, fitness resource for women during and after pregnancy. She is also a creator of Bounce Back Fast, the post-natal conditioning DVD an a book titled Exercise After Pregnancy. How to look and feel your best. Hi Helene Helene: Hi, thanks for having me. Host: Sure, please tell us about yourself, about your book and about your work. Helene: I kind of came to the fitness industry through the back door, if you will, I was a professional dancer when I was younger and I found that as a young dancer I could make a lot more money teaching fitness classes, aerobic classes and things like that, than I could teaching dance. So I started out as a lot of us do teaching aerobic classes and conditioning classes. I got a little bit older, and I got certified as a personal trainer, and I started doing personal raining. And then, not surprisingly, after my son was born, I started getting really interested in postnatal reconditioning and I found that a lot of the exercises that I thought would be good in the postpartum period didn’t work so I kind of took my background which was dance and Pilates and a little bit of yoga along with the more …