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

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

Late rapper and actor Tupac Shakur was filming his first movie, “Juice,” when he read a story in the Daily News about a 12-year-old Brooklyn girl who’d been raped by her cousin, hid the pregnancy from her family and then tried to dispose of the newborn. That 1991 story, headlined “Cries in the Night,” went on to inspire the breakthrough single off Tupac’s debut album, according to Jeff Pearlman, author of the new biography “Only God Can Judge Me…