Notes & Personnel Info |  | Personnel includes: Trina, Missy Elliott, Trina, Money Mark, Duece Poppi, Tre, Rick Ross, Fabolous, Tweet, Jagged Edge, Eve, Bathgate, Lil Brianna, Duece Poppi, Ludacris. | | Producers include: Cool & Dre, Jim Jonsin, Signature, Just Blaze, Charles. | | Audio Mixer: Alvin Speights. | | Recording information: Circle House Studio, Miami, FL; Right Track Recordings, NY, NY. | | So many female rappers as attractive as Trina are there because of two things: first, they know someone; second, they're gorgeous. While Trina is definitely sexy and is in good with Trick Daddy, it was evident from her first album that she was making music for another reason -- she's a formidable rapper. There hasn't been a ton of female rappers to emerge from the south, and Trina blends her southern style nicely with intelligible lyrics to give her some national appeal. She's like a new Roxanne Shant? or Lil' Kim, but from down south. Trina makes this album a worthy follow-up to her last LP by bringing some very talented help with her. Bathgate, Ludacris, Deuce Poppi, and Rick Ross from the Slip-N-Slide label, as well as Missy Elliott, all make guest appearances here (does a female rapper ever do an album without another female rapper on it?). Although this record differs a lot from her first, it's a step in the right direction and should provide her with fans from a much larger area. Trina is a dirty girl from the Dirty South, and she proves her hardness in the Eazy-E remake of "No More Questions." If you liked her first album, this is a different-sounding record but arguably better. ~ Brad Mills | | Foxy Brown and Lil' Kim may have the rep of hard-assed rap divas who are equally streetwise and sexy but Miami native Trina ups the ante with her sophomore raunchfest DIAMOND PRINCESS. Originally breaking on the scene as a member of Trick Daddy's posse, this potty-mouthed femme is unapologetic in her ribald approach towards all facets of life. From the opening intro by Sommore where there's enough salty language and references to oral sex to make a biker blush, the tone gets set for the rest of this raunchy ride. Pumped up with plenty of jacked-up beats and an equally biting flow, Trina gives her Rolodex a workout as she recruits numerous big names like Ludacris (the Middle Eastern-flavored "B R Right"), Missy Elliott (an equally exotic "Rewind That Back") and Missy protege Fabolous (the jittery "How We Do?"). Also checking in are soul chanteuse Tweet (the overtly suggestive "No Panties") and pitbull-in-a-skirt Eve (the fierce female empowerment anthem "Ladies 1st"). Just as the title DIAMOND PRINCESS suggests, Trina is a hard-edged jewel that shines with an uncanny brilliance. |
Engineer: Young Guru; Ray Seay |
Musical Guests | | Missy Elliott | | Tweet | | Jagged Edge | | Fabolous | | Eve | | Money Mark | | Ludacris | | Tre | | Rick Ross | | Duece Poppi | | Lil Brianna | | Bathgate |
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