How Trina’s Sex Positivity Paved the Way for a Generation of Raunchy Rap
Trina may have the most iconic introduction to rap of all time. On 1998’s, “Nann Nigga,” a high-pitched unfamiliar voice infiltrates the speakers in a battle of the sexes between Miami rappers Trick Daddy and then 18-year-old Katrina Taylor. Woman with the piercing voice immediately makes her presence known, as she spars with Trick with a veracity that demands attention, refuting every one of Trick Daddy’s claims.
He leads the song with insults, ones that would be problematic today, including “I’ll fight a bitch like you,” but she upped the ante. Pushing it further and filthier than any newcomer—man or woman—would have the guts to, Katrina “Trina” Taylor was “da baddest” from the beginning. Who else was cutting down the male ego and bragging about their ability to “fuck five or six best friends” in the first four bars of their first song? Trina was already teaching her course in savagery twenty years ago, long before that became Rihanna and other sex positive stars’ ministries.
