★★★★★
Why is it that when female MC's taste a little success and come up, they don't wanna be hardcore any more? When Eve first came out she was the pitbull of the Ruff Ryder clique, just as hard as any of the male rappers she rolled with. A few years and a Gwen Stefani video later, she's more interested in dolling up all pretty to do movies and television shows. She hasn't released an album in three years and one wonders if anybody would care any more if she did...
- rapreviews.com
2009-07-21
★★★★★
Trina's got a reputation. It's not the one you think though, because she's not easy. She will however do a cover of Eazy-E, as her remake of "No More Questions" entitled "Hustling" proves. Her steelo and her rep is that of "Da Baddest Bitch," a female MC who is sexually liberated and hard as FUCK at the same time. She's the Dirty South's own answer to Lil' Kim, just as good looking and just as likely to smack a dude in the face and then make him eat the cat afterwards...
- rapreviews.com
2009-07-21
★★★★★
Little known to the masses Slip-N-Slide Records was stirring up a Hurricane Katrina in Florida long before it hit the shores of the United States. 1998 was the year that Katrina Laverne Taylor, better known as Trina, made her first appearannce on wax on Trick Daddy's unexpected smash hit single "Nann Nigga...
- rapreviews.com
2009-07-21
★★★★★
Trina came up in a way familiar to a lot of new rappers in the gametoday - guest appearance on somebody else's record. By busting astraight raw verse on Trick Daddy's "Nann Nigga" Trina had instantfame and recognition throughout the hip-hop nation as his catchysingle from "www.Thug.com" rose up the charts.Trick Daddy has since struck gold again with a new album (whichTrina does appear on) but Trina needed to branch out and establishher own persona and power to smash on the rap charts...
- rapreviews.com
2009-07-21
★★★★★
"Can there be redemption for a bitch?" seems to be the question on rapper Katrina "Trina" Taylor's mind these days. Though the optimist in me wants to say, "Ho!" the fact is that few have successfully crossed over. The charts seem to offer about one space for the upstanding female emcee who sells without selling her body for every three Lil' Kim, Khia and Jacki-O-like starlets...
- www.prefixmag.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
In the two years since Trina came out with Da Baddest Bitch, her raunchy rapping has evolved into sheer nasty insanity. Diamond Princess is a collection of unusually complex hip-hop fantasies: Space Age sound effects vault "Ladies 1st" into a girl-power anthem for the cyber age; the rhythm lags jarringly, and effectively, behind the tune on "Party Don't Stop." Ludacris guests on the skittery "B R Right," and Missy Elliott has diva-ish fun snapping and wailing on "Rewind That Back...
- www.rollingstone.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
I.GIFt's hard to decide what's more reprehensible about Trina's Diamond Princess, its utter lack of social significance or that it's completely devoid of any sense of fun or irony. While it's no shock that Trina's rhymes are unabashedly derivative of Lil' Kim's forthright cum-hither sex-talk, she lacks the Queen Bee's charisma and the tongue-in-cheek appeal that makes Kim so damn likeable...
- www.slantmagazine.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
"Can there be redemption for a bitch?" seems to be the question on rapper Katrina "Trina" Taylor's mind these days. Though the optimist in me wants to say, "Ho!" the fact is that few have successfully crossed over. The charts seem to offer about one space for the upstanding female emcee who sells without selling her body for every three Lil' Kim, Khia and Jacki-O-like starlets...
- prefixmag.com
2008-07-06