Deep Album Cuts Vol. 338: Trina
Trina's always been one of my favorites, she might really one of my top 5 women MCs (up there with Missy, MC Lyte, Nicki, and Meg). A lot of that is off of singles and features, but she's got some pretty great album tracks too.
Trina deep album cuts (Spotify playlist):
1. Ain't Shit (featuring Lois Lane)
2. Watch Yo Back (featuring Twista)
3. Bitch I Don't Need U (featuring Trick Daddy)
4. Off The Chain With It (featuring Trick Daddy)
5. Rewind That Back (featuring Missy Elliott)
6. Hustling
7. Ladies 1st (featuring Eve)
8. How We Do? (featuring Fabolous)
9. Do You Want Me? (featuring Bathgate)
10. I Gotta (featuring Rick Ross)
11. Shake (featuring Lil Scrappy)
12. Sum Mo (featuring Dre)
13. So Fresh (featuring Plies)
14. Stop Traffic (featuring Pitbull)
15. Killing You Hoes
16. I Got A Bottle (featuring Missy Elliott)
17. Hot Commodity (featuring Rick Ross)
18. Let Dem Hoes Fight (featuring Kalenna)
19. Dang A Lang (featuring Nicki Minaj and Lady Saw)
20. Situation (featuring Lil Wayne)
21. New Thang (featuring 2 Chainz)
Tracks 1, 2, 3 and 4 from Da Baddest Bitch (2000)
Tracks 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 from Diamond Princess (2002)
Tracks 10, 11, 12 and 13 from Glamorest Life (2005)
Tracks 14, 15, 16 and 17 from Still Da Baddest (2008)
Tracks 18 and 19 from Amazin' (2010)
Tracks 20 and 21 from The One (2019)
I went heavy on features but Trina is one of those people who just seems to be better when she has someone else's energy to bounce off of, and might be the closest thing to female rapper who has songs with almost every other major female rapper. Diamond Princess is a cool album because it feels like a lot of the big name producers on there don't stick to their usual sound, "B R Right" and "Do You Want Me?" aren't typical Kanye beats and "How We Do?" isn't a typical Just Blaze beat. "Hustling" is probably the best Trina song, the little snippet at the end of the "B R Right" video always intrigued me and the song itself is insane.
"Let Dem Hoes Fight" was co-written by Lady Gaga, who put the initial song together before it was offered to Trina. Unfortunately, their labels couldn't work it out for Gaga to guest on the Trina song, so Kalenna from Dirty Money is on the album version, but there's a leaked version with Gaga's vocals on YouTube. I really like imagining a world where that version came out and was a huge hit. And as I was writing this post, I scrolled past a viral tweet of "Hot Commodity."
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