Martin said in a 2017 radio interview of Trina, “I wasn’t in the marrying mind-state at the time.
Rapper Trina performs onstage at 'The Code Red Experience' Tour at Center Stage on Decemin Atlanta, Georgia. “It was just not a good situation for me to be in,” while “Wayne was honest and had a pure heart.” Rapper Trina performs onstage during 10th Annual ONE Musicfest at Centennial Olympic Park on Septemin Atlanta, Georgia. now that Trina has shared that she is engaged. Congratulations are in order The Baddest Btch will soon become a Mrs. Almost married, five-year relationship.” But, “It’s guys, you know? They are not honest, they are not truthful at times … The fact that you are walking around branded with my lips … and the fact that I don’t have anything tattooed of you on me? It was just one of those things that you believed in something solid … and it just became bad. The rapper and longtime boyfriend Ray Almighty will be tying the knot. Trina, 39, says of Wayne, whom she dated for a year in 2005, “It would have been perfect if the timing was now, because then we were too young … You really don’t want to be tied down at 22 … He was the first person that I dated in the industry - I was really young, and he was really young, and he was my great friend.”Īs far as Martin, whom she nearly married but broke up with in 2010, she says: “I was so deep in love. She says that her breakup from Lil Wayne was drama-free, but her split from NBA star Kenyon Martin - who once had her lips tattooed on his neck - was more complicated. 1, and she exclusively dished to Page Six about two of her past relationships.
She released the single Here We Go in 2005, which featured singer Kelly Rowland. She has been nominated for over seven BET Awards in hip-hop. “When you match Trina up with the rappers that came before her, she just allowed for a greater level of ‘don’t give a f-ckness,’ and I love that.Rapper Trina is joining VH1’s “Love & Hip Hop: Miami” on Jan. Born Katrina Laverne Taylor, she became famous as a rapper and model. When you look at Megan Thee Stallion, City Girls and even Cardi B, Trina, Foxy Brown and Lil’ Kim wrapped together really kicked down the doors of not only feminism but brash ownership of the weaponization of your sexuality.”Ĭochrane notes that women rappers matching their male counterparts’ energy with their talent, lyricism and flow was “some whole other shi-t” at that time.
You can hear it in their flow and subject matter. “They are Trina’s daughters all day, every day. “The clearest, straight line I can make to her impact today is the City Girls,” says music and culture journalist Naima Cochrane. That statement rings true today when you look at the rappers who are dominating the charts. It’s a sound that everybody is using and everybody is wanting to implement in their music.” Once artists started collaborating with artists from up north, Los Angeles, and Atlanta, our sound became the sound. “Miami has grown into one of the biggest Southern places next to Atlanta when it comes down to music,” she says shouting out other artists from the Sunshine state like Kodak Black and Flo Rida. “I knew that was the record that broke the gate, that’s what got the deal but then I wanted something else.” She made it okay to be exactly who you are with no cue cards.”Īfter “Nann” popped off, Trina was quietly mandated to push out an album right away while still trying to manage the ins and outs of touring, understanding performance cues and honing her stage presence. “Trina helped normalize a particular way of being and rapping and commanding space on a track, and the words she used are like a regular day at the office two decades on.” Adds Younger, who penned a piece for The New Yorker about the relationship between women and rap, “Her music was about power-sexual, financial and otherwise-that doesn’t need permission, and we’re still figuring out what that looks like even to this day. “Her attitude made room,” says music critic Briana Younger. It was released on Augthrough the label Atlantic/Slip-N-Slide.The album debuted at number fourteen on the US Billboard 200 and number five on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. While onlookers may not have been aware of the internal battles Trina had to fight with her label, her stage presence offered a hint of the type of energy she carried when dealing with misogyny behind the scenes. Diamond Princess is the second studio album by American rapper Trina.