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: The Many Lives of Tupac Shakur.”
“She didn’t tell anyone — delivers the baby on the floor, wraps the baby in a plastic bag and throws the baby down the trash shoot. It’s the day the incinerator is supposed to go off,” Pearlman told host Allison Kugel on her “Allison Interviews” podcast .
“A guy down there working in

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