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How Trina flipped the script on stereotypes of Black women in rap

All Songs Considered

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The Importance of Conviction

Trina's name verse was a point of like Yerika's sexual liberation on a whole nother love. "I understood in that moment that I could either be the kind of girl that like people expected me to be and like wanted me to be or I could just do what the fuck I wanted to do," she says. We talked to a certified Trina scholar to break down where that conviction comes from.

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