Pro-life rap?

Back in 1999, when I was living in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, my brother brought over a mix cd to play a song for me. The song was 'Your Life's On the Line' by a rapper called 50 Cent. My brother said 'this guy is going to be huge'. Four years, two record labels and nine gun shot wounds later, 50 Cent released his wildly successful album 'Get Rich or Die Tryin'. I just mean to illustrate that my brother often has his finger on the proverbial pulse and can tell what the kids are going to be into before the kids even know themselves.

This weekend, my brother played me a new CD, by a rapper he says is going to be all the rage, called Game. The first song we heard was 'Envy' and my brother dubbed it 'an instant classic'. It's a typical first single, about being poor and struggling, illegal activity and finally success as a rapper. The chorus serves as an introduction to the rapper (all lyrics from Lyrics Box) 'hate it or love it, the underdogs on top/and im gon' shine homie until my heart stop/go head envy me, im raps mvp/and i aint goin nowhere so you can get to know me.'

There's a verse right at the end that caught my attention:

pac is gone and brenda still throwin babies in the garbage

i wanna know whats goin on like i hear marvin

no school books to use that wood to build coffins

whenever im in da booth and i get exhausted i think

what if marie banka got that abortion (i love you ma)

I don't know who 'Brenda' is, and I assume Marie Banka is Game's mother since he thanks his mom at the end of that line. I don't think I've ever heard a line in a song like that and it really struck me. Life is often portrayed as cheap in rap songs, Game thanking his mom for not aborting him sounds pretty unique.