Trina: Still Da Baddest
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“Put this pu$$y in yo’ jaws, now smack/Like it’s Thanksgiving and it ain’t coming back/Collard greens, neckbones, ni$$a, chew this ass,” has got to be one of the more notable lyrics from Trina’s latest Still Da Baddest from the song “Look Back At Me,” easily the most original-sounding song she’s got. The album is filled with what I see as unintentionally funny rhymes (both “LOL” funny and “Did she really just say that?” funny). Who else is going to rap about collard greens and chewing booty? Not that we needed that. I must not be her target audience,because I can’t take one second of this album seriously. LOL, Trina. LOL.Remember when Khia came out with “My Neck, My Back”? Trina’s got lyrics that would make even hood rat Khia blush. Perhaps her sex-and-foreplay-themed songs are all a front for how heartbroken she is (and y’all know it’s ‘cause of Lil’ Wayne). Right when you’re thinking, “Damn, this self-proclaimed 'hood bitch' sure loves to brag about how much ass she’s got (“You lost a lot of weight shit, you fallin’ off fast/I feel sorry for ya/Might let you borrow some ass”) and how much better she is than all the other ho’s out there, a track like “Wish I Never Met You,” featuring Shonie, comes on to slow it down a notch: “I found a condom in your dresser, and you know how we get down.” Caught cheating? Oh no homeboy didn’t. Even the more sentimental songs are mediocre, although Keyshia Cole shines on “I Got A Thang For You.”
I’m so sick of male rappers rhyming about “getting brain,” and the many “smart/student” wordplay associations that go with it, that I’m willing to deem it a refreshing twist to hear these scenarios substituted with rhymes like, “If you don’t eat pu$$y, get the f&ck outta here.” Again, who else but Trina? Okay, Khia has probably said that too. The line can be heard in “Stop Traffic,” a song that features Pitbull providing the weak hook: “Green mean go, yellow mean slow, red mean stop, now drop to the flo’/Girl you got an ass, stop traffic like a red.” Free traffic tips, in case you happen to forget. Not even the album’s first single “Single Again” can save this album. It just sounds like a bad dance/club song with so much “techno” that it sounds outdated.
This is the kind of shit you might throw on when you’re getting “drizzy wit’ ur gurlz” but any other time would be unnecessary. Whoever told her she “Da Baddest,” I think they meant “bad,” as in bad, not “bad,” as in good. But at least I know whom to borrow some ass from, should I need it.
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