Trina Miami-based rapper Trina first gained notoriety in 1998 with her appearance on Trick Daddy's www.thug.com album. Her own debut album, Da Baddest Bitch, featured a cameo by Trick Daddy and was released in early 2000 on Atlantic Records. She spent the next two years honing her raw, raunchy style. She paired up with Missy Elliott for the recording of her second effort, 2002's Diamond Princess. — Heather Phares
Trina, the pint-sized Miami rapper Entertainment Weekly called "the new queen of randy hip-hop," is back with a whole new vibe on her sophomore Slip-N-Slide/Atlantic Records release, "DIAMOND PRINCESS." With incredible guests like Tweet, Eve, Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliot, Jagged Edge, Ludacris, and Fabolous, the bad girl who first turned heads with the raunchy rhymes on 2000's RIAA gold-certified Slip-N-Slide/Atlantic Records debut, "DA BADDEST B****H," is in control and badder than ever. We're sorry, but you must have a Java-enabled web browser to listen to this message.
Hip-hop's newest, baddest bitch has managed to get in a quick shopping spree while visiting Cali for an appearance on BET with labelmates Trick Daddy and J-Shin.
Trina is into the finer things in life, as displayed in the video for the title track and first single from her debut album, the fittingly titled Da Baddest Bitch. But despite being perceived as the money-hungry, foul-mouthed, sexually explicit female MC on Trick Daddy's 1999 hit "Nann," Trina says people are quick to blow things out of proportion.
When an opportunity arose for her to set the record straight, she jumped. And she wasn't exactly shy...
