Jeff Pearlman
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
He's like, just come with me.
Before she died, if any Shakur took the remaining Tupac ashes, bury them, has a tombstone up.
So if you go to an abandoned lot in Lumberton, North Carolina, you can see the grave of Tupac Shakur.
And I don't think anyone knows it's there.
All right.
I'm going to have to tell the very bridge version of this, but there's a song.
Do you guys know the song?
Some of you, Brenda's got a baby, but yes.
Okay.
So Brenda's got a baby.
Tupac was filming the movie juice and he, um, he's reading the New York daily news outside his trailer in New York city.
And there's an article called cries in the night about a 12 year old girl who was raped by a cousin, delivered the baby on the bathroom floor, threw her baby down a trash heap.
Tupac reads that article, goes into his trailer, writes the song, Brenda's Got a Baby, that becomes Tupac's first really well-known song.
I thought it would be amazing to try and find the baby who was thrown down the trash heap.
I work with a genealogist who called me one day and said, I think I have a number.
I reach out to this guy crudely via text.
His name is Davon Hodge.
I go to Las Vegas.
We sit down.
He, in fact, was a baby who was thrown down the trash heap, and Brenda's got a baby.