The first song is an unlikely Bill Withers-sampling party anthem that features T-Pain and Young Cash. This week, Trina dropped two singles from her still-untitled sixth album. We love her vocal support of other women, her willingness to skate between vulnerable and powerful, her unspoken pledge to do things on her own terms. We love her contagious confidence, her commitment to emotional honesty, how great she looks in a skintight red carpet dress. I ain't ashamed of nothing I do, she says before launching into a proud run-down of her sexual and personal agency: You don't know nann ho who done been the places I been, who can spend the grands that I spend, who fuck about 5 or 6 best friends.Īcross five albums and nearly two decades since, Trina has continued to play the same role for a generation of women. Instinctively, though, I fucked much harder with Trina's combative, self-assured rebuttal on the song's second half, understanding that it was a general sentiment I'd eventually identify with: she was standing up for herself, like a real bad bitch does. Eat the coochie wit the legs up, then I blow it all in yo butt, my friends and I rapped along with Trick, not entirely grasping what he meant but somehow knowing that we weren't really supposed to, either. As a pre-teen, I didn't fully understand the sexual references on "Nann Nigga," or on much of the other music I was obsessing over, for that matter. I was in middle school when a then-18-year-old Trina stormed hip-hop with a show-stealing verse on Trick Daddy's "Nann Nigga," sassing the Miami rapper with her cutting wit and high-energy flow.
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