Back By Thug Demand

I love a thug. Like, a real thug. Like a Trick Daddy. I know just about every rapper claims to be a thug, and claims to have been a drug dealer, and a brawler and a gun toter. Trick Daddy is for real. This is a man who had relative success ("I'm a Thug" and "Take it to the house") and was still carrying guns and coke (I think he was arrested in 2002/3 for firearm and cocaine possession),while sponsoring inner city youth basketball teams. Trick Daddy is the first rapper, to my knowledge, aside from 2 Live Crew that gained popularity/notoriety as a Miami rapper. In addition to this he's been around forever and made a number of albums (with a consistent theme), went to jail for coke dealing, was a coke addict, and went through the aforementioned prison bid; and all from the man who released www.thug.com and repeatedly claims to "love the kids"in a father-type way. Anyway, this is a half-baked entry, I just got excited about that new Kanye/Trick song and wanted to post up my fave Trick Daddy songs, I think it'll put everyone in an aggressively good mood.


One last thing to discuss is the ongoing theme of "thug" in Trick's songs, let me list the album titles since his second album: "WWW.THUG.COM", "BOOKS OF THUGS: CHAPTER AK VERSE 47", "THUGS ARE US", "THUG HOLIDAY", "THUG MATRIMONY: MARRIED TO THE STREETS", "BACK BY THUG DEMAND". Is anyone as impressed as I am? He also claims to have "originated pussy-suckin" and we all know that "Trick loves the kids". One disclaimer: I don't like Trick Daddy's albums that much, I like his voice, and about half the time I like his lyrics, but his albums are fairly inconsistent with a couple of hits. It's these hits that make me think Trick Daddy is good, he's got talent but like so many rappers he panders to popular taste and ends up with inconsistent and watered-down albums.

The song that has me so excited is:

I Can't say No - Kanye West feat. Trick Daddy

Kanye is a bit phony in it, talkin all street life (wasn't his mom a professor and his dad was a minister?) But Trick is amazing on it, and the beat is just so good. I love songs like this, it's got the fast dancey back beat, it's got a soul sample for the chorus, it's got heavy-thug lyrics, it's what I want right now and I haven't been excited about rap in a minute.

And others that I like:
Fuckin Around - Trick Daddy
Take it to the House - Trick Daddy Feat. Trina

AND THE CLASSIC

I'm a Thug - Trick Daddy feat. Ghetto Youth Choir

Mike Deane