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Trina: She's Just Not That Into You

Posted 01/04/2008 at 12:33 PM | Comment?

Trina feat. Killer Mike: "Look Back At Me"
from the forthcoming Still Da Baddest

Trina feat. Missy Elliott: "I Got a Bottle"
from the forthcoming Still Da Baddest

Trina feat. Shonie Tyler: "Single Again"
from the forthcoming Still Da Baddest

Trina feat. Mannie Fresh: "Da Club"
from Glamorest Life (Slip-N-Slide/Atlantic, 2005)

There's something reassuring about Trina's new single, "Look Back At Me," a welcome, salacious return for Florida's meanest female MC. It as astoundingly and exhaustingly filthy as her earliest verses (she's rivalled only by the also re-emerging Lil' Kim when it comes to the plain-spoken sex-aphor), though I could probably do without without Killer Mike's "mayonnaise" allusions. Above are two more leaked tracks from Trina's upcoming Stll Da Baddest, her fourth album and they're each a bit different. "I Got a Bottle" fiddles with angular guitars and a descending, chopped horn line. It sounds more distinctly Missy than Trina, but her punchy, on-the-dime flow attacks the spare rhythm with a rare intensity. "Single Again" is probably the most alarmingly emo thing Trina has ever done, a likely rebuke to her ex Lil Wayne's rise as romantic icon. "We partied like rock stars, we sexed like porn stars," she raps, but wearily, proud of a bygone moment, almost forlorn. The wondrous "Da Club" from her last album, by contrast, sounds, if not exactly sexy, then driven.

Trina, in many ways, is a veteran now, another female MC looking to raze where other women have fizzed this decade -- she's also a veteran of Slip-N-Slide, a label that finally regained some traction after two disappointing Trick Daddy albums, with the success of Plies' shockingly good debut, The Last Testament, and a 2008 return for Rick Ross (not quite riding there). But for someone who has always sounded so starkly in command of her sexuality and all its requisite activities, Trina's current freedom sounds like a curse. One tip: Avoid shacking up with Killer Kill.

Related: Noz points to HipHopDX's sanctioned leak of Killer Mike's Ghetto Extraordinary. I keep a long list of albums I want to hear that have never dropped (Pharoahe Monch's Desire finally came off this list last year, Detox and KLC's solo album appear to reside there in perpetuity.) I can now cross this one off the list, aging production or not.

Tags: Killer Mike, Mannie Fresh, Trina

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