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

All Songs Considered

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Trina's Journey to Becoming the King of the City

Trina was thrust onto a year-long tour with Trick doing NAM night after night. The girls in the club were so hyped to see Trina, it didn't even matter that she wasn't rapping. They were rapping her verse for her. Those girls helped check off her stage fright because she saw in their faces what her lyrics were doing to them. Smashing culture of shame around women's pursuit of pleasure.

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