Drink Champs - #Throwback Episode - w/ Trina | (Ep.95)

Episode Date: June 17, 2026

N.O.R.E. & DJ EFN are the Drink Champs and we're taking it back to some of the most legendary moments in Drink Champs history. Classic interviews, unforgettable stories, and iconic guests who shaped the culture.Miami’s own Queen of the South, Trina, sits down for an unforgettable conversation packed with stories, laughs, and real talk. Widely regarded as one of the most influential women in hip hop, Trina takes the Drink Champs audience through her incredible journey from breaking into the rap game alongside Trick Daddy to becoming a cultural icon who helped redefine the role of women in rap.With drinks flowing and memories unfolding, Trina reflects on her early days in Miami, the challenges of navigating a male-dominated industry, and the determination that helped her build a lasting legacy. She opens up about the importance of female unity, the evolution of hip hop, and the lessons she learned while establishing herself as one of the genre’s most respected voices. The conversation also dives into her relationship with Trick Daddy, Miami’s influence on her career, and the moments that shaped her rise to fame.From classic industry stories to inspiring insights about longevity and success, this episode delivers everything fans love about Drink Champs—authentic conversations, legendary guests, and unfiltered hip hop history. Raise a glass and celebrate one of Miami’s finest as Trina shares her story like only she can.Make some noise for Trina !!! 💐💐💐🏆🏆🏆-Originally published on September 4th, 2017*Listen and subscribe at https://www.drinkchamps.comFollow:Drink Champshttps://www.drinkchamps.comhttps://www.instagram.com/drinkchampshttps://www.twitter.com/drinkchampshttps://www.facebook.com/drinkchampsDJ EFNhttps://www.crazyhood.comhttps://www.instagram.com/whoscrazyhttps://www.twitter.com/djefnhttps://www.facebook.com/crazyhoodproductionsN.O.R.E.https://www.instagram.com/therealnoreagahttps://www.twitter.com/noreagaSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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And it's drink champs happy hour. Make some nuts! Right now, we have not only a queen of hip-hop, not only a queen of Miami, but a queen, period. When you say the baddest, you gotta say her name. I can say the baddest bitch? I don't know.

You would say the baddest bitch. You know, you know, so when you say the baddest, but you got to say her name. She has been working countless She's always been in front of the camera Looking gorgeous, always represented the females right I'm proud to say that in the building Right now with the drink chas

We got the legendary, the iconic Trina is in the building, makes up? Thank you. How you doing, Trinney? Looking gorgeous as always. Thank you. Thank you for having me. How long have you been in this game?

Oh, wow. I've been doing, I've been in the game, actually I would say, well, since the first record with Trigg, that would have been... That's the first record? Yeah. That you ever recorded, period? Which is not.

Well, now, that's the first record I ever recorded, period. Besides this one little thing I had did, like, really, really before that, like I was probably, like, about 15. And I had, some of my friends used to dance for Luke. They were, like, his backup dancers, and when we was all in the studio, I had snuck in the studio. And he was doing this song, It's Your Birthday. And it was just, everybody was saying their name,

and I just jumped there, like, Trina, it's your birthday. So that got on the song. So that was, like, something I had did a long time ago. But nobody knew about it until, like, way, way later. Yeah, but besides that recording, yeah, it was a trick for the now record. That's a big first record I came out the gate with You don't know that?

Yeah You're reading New York We ain't know We didn't know That's always That's always just what's saying Yeah I went on the stuff

You know that What are you singing Norrie? Like I gotta go to Miami They got some shit Going on down there So now was Hipop always

Like your dream or It wasn't always my dream I just like music I just like I liked more R&B You know I like melodic I just liked all the ladies

You know I was like Salt and Pepper fan Janet Jackson and like just all the girls every girl that came out like a little everybody that was out I just you know I just love the girls and once it became like hip hop and rap and stuff

I mean it was guys it's cool but I was a girly girl you know so much more so than like into the guy thing and then just being from Miami it wasn't like a close kind of thing the only person that was like known for like music was Luke and I was too young you can't really be around Luke music but you know he had a teen club so that kind of made us pack jam so you was kind of like real Miami shit going on right now oh

Get involved with it. But besides that, like music, when you hear music from like out-of-town artists, we didn't, it was like, it wasn't our style music. It wasn't booty music or dance music and stuff like that. So, you know. So now, like, because after you came home with your trick, you know, Nair, nigger, was the success immediate or you still, it was still a grind process to that? Because us looking from the outside end, it looked like Miami just took over there.

It looked immediate. It was right away. It was scary. It was like right away. It was so scary. It was like, yo, hold up, I didn't sign up for this. I didn't want to do this. Like the label was running me down, chasing me.

I want these dudes to stop calling my phone. I'm doing a favor of trick as my guy. That's it. I don't want to sign a record deal. I don't want to be the first lady slip and slide. None of that. So you weren't signed when you did the record? No, no, no, no.

I just came to the studio. It was like, yo, come to the studio. Bring your girls. We're going to have a good time. I'm like, oh, who's going to be the studio? We want to hang out with you guys. You know, and then he was like, no, we're going to have fun. I want you to do something.

I was like, what? And he was like, you know what? You bring your girls. You know y'all got the flip mouth. Y'all, quick to cussie dude out. I just want you to come in here and just like, talk shit. And then that's kind of how it happened. Ah.

Yeah. Let's make some noise for that, God damn. Oh, no. The minute that Ted Lucas heard that record, he was like, The minute he heard that record, I had to change my number. He was calling me, like, every day. No, Ted Lucas. Oh, Ted Lucas.

Yes, he called, he called, Trent Carter from the studio. He was like, that's not Trina. He was like, Ted, it is. He was like, I'm coming on my way now. And I kind of left with my friends before Ted came because I didn't want to talk about no music and no record label, nothing. And then he just called every single day.

And he was like, no, you have to sign. I was like, no, I was like, what are you talking about? And then after that, I did a, I did Trix birthday party. And, um, what club was that at? I don't know. It was like a small little clubbing for a lot of deal. And it was like, it's me, all my friends. We're going to go to the party, show him love.

And then he decided to perform the song. And they set me up and made me sneak on the stage to do the song. And I just got on stage and I had closed my eyes. I didn't say nothing. What? And everybody was going, crazy and I was just thinking like, what is going on? And then...

So your eyes was close? You couldn't tell? I didn't say not one word. The girl said every word of the song. And my eyes was closed and I was standing like, what am I doing? And then after that trick was like, so you don't want to sign? And then we just kind of had this conversation. And it just happened like so fast.

Like, I remember getting back. And a couple days after I was into his office, they was on the phone with Atlantic. And Atlantic was like, fly to New York. We're signing it. And then everything changed. It went like totally different. So what was your first love before music then? Well, it wasn't really like a...

first love, before I did music, I started doing real estate. I got my real estate license. I was working for this company called ERA Homeland Realty. It was just, it was for me. I was thinking that, hey, I'm going to make money. I'm going to sell homes. I'm going to look fly. I'm just, you know, I'm going to sell a bunch of homes. And I had got a job at this company called

ERA Homeland Realty. And I had worked there for maybe like a month. And I didn't get to sell a home at first. I was like taking people out. I was, you know, I had a lot of different customers, a lot of rentsues. And then right before I was actually about to sell a home that's when the whole thing was tricked. He came and called, interrupted,

and I wanted to do the record, and I just never went back. Now, was you ready for the fame? Because, like, the way you're describing it right now is, like, it was kind of like a surprise to you. It was like a favor for your friend. And then it's, like, how does dealing with fame at that age? I mean, you know what?

I mean, it's a different kind of fame. Because I'm, like, this is, like, Miami is my city, so I'm already, was a person that was already known. I come from, like, a family that's already known in Miami. What part of Miami are you from? Liberty City. That's the real Miami. So therefore, coming up, with people just already know who you are,

and it's just one of things like, you know, you're just being called, like your daddy's daughter or your mom's child, like people are knowing you from that. And, I mean, this is fame. So now I'm doing this record with Trick, and it's a whole different type of thing because it's all over the, like, people all over everywhere are now, like, knowing who you are besides Miami, and everybody want to meet you and they want to see you,

and this is like, whoa, and it's like groupies, and it's girls and it's guys, and guys are looking more corny because they're even more groupie. It's just starting to get weird. Everything is just becoming real weird, you know, and it was just a fast, life-changing experience. Now, recently, I kind of say you had almost like a trick daddy moment. Because that's what we usually, you know, trick to do.

And I'm sitting on the head, and I'm looking everywhere. And I'm like, wow, it's everywhere. Oh, my God. First off, it was gorgeous, by the way. Your hair was done. Everything was looking right. I'm like, yo, you took time. You made sure I had everything.

You looked in. You looked in. And, well, I'd never seen, I never seen you. Oh, Ma. You know what? Let me just say this. Okay. Well, actually, that day, I was actually doing, like, some little viral stuff for my album. Okay. So I was already, like, coming from, like, a... On that mode. I was coming from a great place. Like, I was having a good time. I was leaving the beach, so it was a good moment. And then someone sent me, like, over this whole list of messages from someone posted. And this girl, I know her. So I'm looking like, oh, whoa, like, okay, so this kind of salty. Okay. So then I'm thinking, oh, well, let me just write back, like, yo, what's up? Like, you know, my number hit me up and then that just went until her bitch this

and bitch that. I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa, like that's not how we get down. There's never been a bitch conversation between me and you, so what's the disrespect? Like, what's the problem? And I mean, it was just one of the kind of things like, I'm just not even a person for the rower. I'm not too much of a talker. I have very, very short patience. Like, I'm zero to a hundred real quick.

So it's one of the kind of things like you got to step outside of this and let people know don't fucking disrespect you. And that was that moment. Because like, you know me. I said pull up, you didn't pull up. So that means this is squash automatically. I'm not really on all the extra. That's not me. I just get money.

I live my life. I have fun. I travel the world. I do what I love to do. If you don't like it, that's your misery. Not mine. So that was one of the moments. And right after I was laying in a bed, like rolling up and packing a bag, getting ready to go to Seattle, Washington.

It was all over. And I'm back to the normal myself. Oh, but you had no idea how viral this went. This was all over. I wasn't thinking about it. Then the next day, I woke up in my flight. I was like, whoa. She was like, whoa.

She was all right. I woke up like, yo, like, I woke up like, what is going on? All in the airport when somebody's greeting you. You know, it was classic. You didn't say the name.

That's what, that was classic. No, I don't even say names. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Another promo, like I helped you out, you know, you're a little famous now, hey, you know,

get your shit off. But I just don't like the, I'm not a disrespectful person. You know what? I mean, it's internet, social media. All this viral stuff has made people like get so out of character.

You know, I mean, like every single day before there was like Instagram and Twitter, whatever, you see people, you may not like a shirt, you don't like a hip. You don't have to vocally say that. That's like your personal endeavor.

You don't have to make that publicly known. Now we have this thing. Oh, I don't like her sock was not one was too shorter. Oh, I don't like her sneaker. It's so annoying. And it's just one of those kind of things. It's like always attack, attack, attack. Black women, always attacking black women mainly.

It's always just so much negativity, so much. I look at this stuff every day like everybody else. I would never say anything about anybody that's not a positive or good thing. I don't care about I don't like something. I don't want to keep it moving. I'm human. It's tough. I see. I don't like. I don't like it. I'm like everybody else. But I'm not going to say that because that's just so like not necessary. It's like out of character. It's tacky. It's weak. Like I don't have the time to do that. You know what I mean?

So when somebody get, you know what I mean? I'm sorry. Can you. You're not. I mean, it's just not a me. You don't hear me like. I'm like it's a very calm version. I know very very very. I don't like to bring it over four. Because if I get it before it should get real. You know what I mean? So I keep it to a four. But I'm just saying like we have, this generation, it sucks to me. It's one of them kind of things is the most negative, derogatory, disgusting, hateful, miserable. Why is everybody so mad?

Right. I'm chilling. I'm flying all across the world. Life is great. What are you so mad for? We got the same 24 hours. I don't have 25. I don't have 25, six and a half.

I have 24 just like you. We both have 24. Whatever I do, my 24 is my business. What you do is your business. If yours don't add up, baby, that's not my problem. I'm sorry. Work harder. Nobody cares.

That's all. I know that for my entire life. I've been doing this for 17 years. I do not ask anybody for anything. Nobody could never say any of that about me. You can hear a lot of things. Trina, Trina, train, trainer, train, half the stuff you hear,

the reason you hear about these people because I put you on. It was because of me, people even care to talk about you. I still don't ran about you because I don't have, I'm a pleasant, I'm so busy, like, I'm high in the sky,

like, chilling, like, I'm enjoying life. We only get this thing one time. When you be around people, and the situations and stuff has been taken away from you and you realize how important this one life. We can get all this, like all day, like tomorrow, but this one life, you gotta really take care of that. Like, you're in control of how happy you are in this life.

I'm not miserable. I'm happy. I'm like sailing, yachting, flying, chilling. People speak another language. Like, whoa, you love me. I'm at a concert. I don't even know if you know what I'm talking about, but you're screaming.

So I'm not on this vibe. I'm on a whole other way. We've got to make some more noise today. I'm sorry. That's me. She is giving us the real trainer. God damn. You know, that's just how I roll.

So, let me ask me something. One thing that I see, like, you see Drake and Future do albums together. You see Jay and Kanye do album together. Why don't more females do, like, collab albums? Like, is it true that females in hip-hop can't get along? Or is that a room? I mean, you know what? It's definitely caddy.

What does caddy mean? I'm from that. I don't know what that means. I'm sorry. What does that mean? They just mean like girls, like women are emotional. You know, emotions mean like you, it's a lot of things you may not like about yourself. So when that comes and you around other women and you see confidence, that kind of makes you salty.

That's how I survive. There's no caddiness over here, darling. I'm always going to uplift you. I'm always rooting for you. Like, dang, you look good. Your butt is popping, boobs sitting up. Everything is looking very youthful. I love it.

Women don't know how to give other women props and credit. It's not going to take away from you. woman in hip hop or you think that's women in general in life? I think that's women in life. It's not just hip hop. It's definitely a life. I always hear females say like, I don't mess with girls. Because it's always something. It's all good when we all at the bottom. But if somebody come up a little higher than somebody else,

then somebody ain't going to like that. And that's just a sad thing. I don't understand. Like, we could all hang out. We could party together. We could drink, smoke, club together. But we can't get money together. We can't get business together. We can't do something that's evolving and growing. And like, we can't go passport, hopping around the country together. I just don't understand that.

Was there any time you ever tried to attempt to work with a female artist? I work with every female artist almost in this industry. So I'm one, like, kind of exempt from that. Only because I always embrace everybody. You know, I've done records with everybody from Missy to the Brat to Eve to Remy Ma to Nikki Minaj, to everybody that's out in the game, everybody before. Mostly all the women that came out, I did record was because I embraced them because I like them for some reason. I'm Southern. You're New York.

You're Cali. Your dish. Your accent. You're Caribbean. Like, I just love it. that. And believe it or not, I don't really think all these dudes want to sit around and just watch a bunch of dudes on TV all day. You want to see women.

You want to see beautiful collaboration songs. That's what you really want to see. So I don't understand at what point women don't really get like, you know, like, whoa, together. We're like, we really run the world. Like, we run these dudes all that. All that's a fact. That's a fact. That's a fact. That's a fact. That's a fact. That's true. So that.

You said it earlier. What did you think of, like, the Remi Maher and Nikki Minaj thing? I don't get into all that because it's always black, you know, I just feel like, you know what, when you got women,

people always try to put women against each other. It's more of that than it is like trying to unite women together because people would definitely love to see more of unity than they would like to see

that separation. But in this generation, we don't have that. We have too many jealous, envious, hateful people that rather see it divide. I don't know why.

I see so many dudes, so many guys, they work together, they don't even like each other. But I see you work together. I see you on stage. You get in the bag. So why separate the woman

from doing that? Me, I'm not, I don't, I don't like that. That's one thing I don't like because we're all women doing our thing and you have to be independent for yourself

because you can't depend on nobody. Like that's my thing. I'm not depending on, I don't care who you is, what you got, none of that doesn't mean nothing to me. God bless the child has its own destiny. I'm going to have my own, period. That's how I roll.

If you had a chance, right, they said to you right now, you get a chance to do an album with any female artist there is in the world. Who would you pick? Oh, boy. Now, okay, first of all, this is my first choice, of course, Viance.

This is my favorite first of the song. Okay, I didn't even think like that. You can't even say that's like, that's like, no, right, right, right. No, but, you know, like, I would, I would like, I would like Rihanna. Rihanna is feisty. She's like a powerhouse. She talked that talk. She's unapologetic.

You know what I mean? She's just like a, she's Caribbean, like me. She's, she's just that, you know what I mean? So she, I love that. I would say her. Now, you're Dominican? My dad's family is from Dominican. It's from Dominican Republic.

You got to start claiming Dominican Republic. You got to remember. You know what? We're claiming you. I'm Puerto Rican and I'm claiming you. Wait, wait, wait, let's just say. Let me say that. But now I want him going everywhere.

She's down with us. She's down with Latino. I'm sorry. Because my mom's family is from Nassau, Bahamas. So every time it's always been like a kind of battle thing. Like you're not claiming either people. I'm just like, I'm just me. I don't want to be in a war for, you know, a war.

I'm black in Puerto Rican. I don't want to be in the midst of nothing. People like would say any little thing just because of that. So I just try to like, you know, I'm just here. I'm born. I love my mom family. I'm just close with people. No, I don't speak Spanish.

And I'm not close with my father. So I don't really get into that. I'm really close to my brothers from my father's side. So I love them, but my dad, I'm Bahamian. Like, I love that. That's what my culture is. Yeah, but for a person who speaks for the Dominican delegate. Yes, that's me.

Delegation. We're going to get you, we're going to get to some dothon. We're going to get some of those. We're going to get some of those. We're going to meet your Dominican. You know what I'm saying? This makes some noise that you're in the Latin side. I got there.

We're taking it. We're taking it. I was very shocked. I went and I was like, wow, since Dominican. That'd be nicer for you to see that culture because, like, you know what is crazy for me? I was Puerto Rico. I am Puerto Rico.

But I went to Jamaica one time and I fell in love with the island so much. And what happened was I was like, yo, you know what? I love this island. But when I went to Puerto Rico, it was like, even though, like, I was there as a child, it felt like my, it felt like I was here before. Like, it was an ill feeling for me. It changed my whole life. So that's the, that's the thing.

So now you and Trick Daddy are doing the album. Before I get into the album thing, you know what I like about you and Trick Daddy both is like everybody respects y'all everywhere. Like, you know what I mean? Like one thing about you guys is like their respect value is just there. Was that something that y'all developed or that was just something that came with the game? I mean, I think for myself, it's just me how I roll, like how I carry myself. You know, I just do me stay in my lane and keep it moving. You know what I mean?

I mean, this is industry. is some snakes, it's some tough. It's just a dirty industry. You know, you gotta be real strong. You gotta have your feet playing in the ground and be able to survive. You know, and for me, I just stay out of people wait and do what I gotta do

and I just keep it moving. And I disrespect, we just don't disrespect me and we're all good. You know, and I mean, we keep it moving. We're grown, we're adults, and we're here to live, to make music and to like be here for our families, have fun and, you know, do things that we probably never thought we'll do. And that's just what I do in my life.

What's your favorite part of the game? My favorite part is performing I was movies gonna say that for some reason Because you know why I mean because it's like With records and albums and mixtapes And all this stuff like When I go to these places

Like if I'm out of the country I just like And I hear fans that are saying songs They don't even speak English I'm just like How do you even know what I'm talking about If I'm at a concert And there's a deaf person

Like I have these like bunch of deaf fans That comes to all these shows And they do everything in like sign language And I had to write it and ask her Like how do you know what I'm saying? And she said because she Googles my words and put it in her language. In Braille?

Yeah, but she can't hear me. Yes. And I was like, oh, no, I'm thinking blind people. No, with this. And I was like, wow. And I mean, at the concert, she's doing it in their language while I'm performing. And I just be like, wow.

So that kind of stuff, I just love that. It's like touching people more opposed to somebody around the CD or Alvin. I never saw you before. Like, I just like to go out there and just a while out. Yeah, I think, I think that's beautiful, man. Let's make some more. Yeah. I think as an artist myself, that's like probably,

because it's a media. it. Like, if you, like, you get to see that love. You get to see people like... The energy that night when people are just screaming and singing word for word every song. And you're just like in awe. And the song is like 10 years ago. And you're just like, wow. Like, that's just a beautiful feeling.

Did you ever imagine you'd be like a role model to all... I'm not a role model. I mean, not a role model. But you like, this little girls who really live by your law. Like, it's a beautiful thing. Yeah, you know what? I knew, because I was like that before I started doing music. All my friends were attached to me.

All my friends follow me. I was the leader. It was my way. I'm going to go this way. If I take the alley, we're taking the alley because I know this is the safest route. Everybody's going to follow me.

They're going to trust me because I'm not, I don't really like all the mistakes. I don't like the excuses. I just like to get right to it. My word is my bond. If I say, I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it. And that's just that.

So when I started doing this, it was just one of those things like, okay, I wasn't one of those people that was like shopping mixtapes. And I mean, I'm new, and this is a label. This guy's this trick. There's another group that was there,

Tray Plus 6, and then here's Rick Ross that is just like first time to the label, but he's not even on. And he's like with mixtapes and like pushing them on me to like take on the road. And I'm just thinking like, whoa, these dudes is grinding. I'm just here chilling like the princess. And I'm seeing like how hard you want to get your stuff on.

I'm just like, I just did my one record. I'm good. Like, why are you doing all this extra struggling? I didn't really get into I got on the road and I really understood it. Like I didn't do that right. I didn't have to grind it. So I just, I took it serious. You know, I went to roll with Trick. I went to one year. We did a tour. And, you know, trick is trick. He's lit. Everybody, the girls

is everywhere. It's people. Me, I'm at this time, like, I don't drink, I don't smoke. I'm young. I'm just focused on what I'm doing. I'm on stage. I got my three minutes. I'm going to do my three minutes. Put my best outfit on. Come out and kill it. Get back to the hotel. I'm not doing the after. I'm just, I'm like, now focusing because now the label is like, you got a deal.

We need a new album. We need a new album. We're talking. This is Atlantic. Craig Calman is like down on the text message every second. And Ted is calling every 30 seconds on the dot. So I'm thinking about, forget about, I'm This nan is big, one thing, but now these whole people are like saying, we need a full album. This is all songs of you.

So we got, it's going to be more than this trick than you got to be really serious. So I just like stayed in my room like one year in a row with them and just like master it out of plan and just like execute. Yo, yo, E, I just received my clothes, man. You know, it's like I got a personal style. It's like I got a groovy loo on standby. You got that bomfell.com. Bonfell.com. Don't forget that.com.

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A little bit of it I just felt like I didn't allow them to make me whatever they want to. Sometimes they got like I had one of these records that I recorded which is called Look Back at it. This is a record I did with Killer Mike. This is a record that right now today is like when I performed it's bigger than NAN.

And this is a record that I didn't want on my album. I was like, I don't want to do no records like this. I don't want to do a NAM. I don't want to care what you guys want. They wanted to have that same stereotype. I was like, okay, you want me just go talk dirty again? I don't want to do that. And I fought with the label.

I fought with the label. I fought with them. And eventually, of course, the record was on my album. And I told them, okay, if you give me a softer version of a record I'll do this record. And I did the record. But realistically, this record right now is still one of the biggest records I perform. And I'm sitting there and the girls are like screaming word for work. And that's the kind of stuff that, like, it amazes me.

Like, it's one of those things like, whoa. This is the record that I fought to get off of the album. This is the record that you guys love verbatimely every single word. It's insane. Wow. So, you know. Now, what do you like more independent or, or, major?

Hmm. Well, now I would just say I would say independent. I mean, when it comes to business and money and yourself and making sure that you're better. I mean, your freedom, your creativity, whatever you need to do. He hates me. I hate indie.

Imagine like when I started in this Atlantic and it's like a big machine behind you and you're just sitting there and you're not doing nothing because they got like a mafia of people doing whatever you need. And then when you don't have that after you do for so long, it's like, and you're like, and the room gets sick.

smaller and everybody gets, you know, those hundred people go into like four people and you're trying to figure out how you're going to make this work. So it's a big difference, you know, it's about you and how much you want to work and whatever team you put together to make you work because it's totally not the same system. And now with record sales that's totally in a decline, totally different industry. It's nothing like before. I mean, you could be

on a major, and a major is a major, but that don't mean you're going to be selling major records because you're on a major. They still expect the artists now to work. They expect you to work harder because they don't have to put the work in because all of this streaming and social media and Instagram and they expect you to do your part opposed to back then. You don't have to do anything.

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when he was, was an independent. Okay. Then they got picked up as a major. Are you not with him the more? No, no, no, no, but that's my man. Okay, okay, okay, Neil's my man. Okay. So then I, um, they had, went major because Tommy Boy had the influence.

You consider Tommy Boy a major? I thought that was still an age to a degree. No, because Tommy Boy was the major that was distributed through Warner. Okay. Remember, Warner, yeah. So then penalty got, uh, all that. So then when I go from penalty, and then Tom Silverman and Nilvin caught their their little problem.

Okay. And then I went to Dillivine. Def Jam, it was like, Def Jam was a major, but I loved their grind, meaning, like, they would throw me on the road. Like, they wouldn't give me mad money up front, but they would give me mad tour buses and be like, you're going to keep you

on the road for three months at a time. Something that I didn't really know that, so my record would, you know, it would come out of sell $250 or whatever, and I was a gold dude, so they just kept me on the road to just keep going to go. And then from that, to go, oh, I got to pay for the tour bus?

Oh, I got to pay. You go over there? Wait a minute. What you did so? No, no, no. And do you remember all the first class places? Now you're thinking about the, 10, you went to the whole crudified.

But now you gotta pay for it? It's different. No, no, absolutely. Like, Slime, you gotta go regular. You could still come. I would honestly agree on that. Like, when you independent, you definitely have to kick out the bag. And you have to invest into yourself everything

because even with, like, an independent partner is still like, you know, I have a partnership with Neil right now. I'm still kicking out the bag. Exactly. But he knows, like, you know, you still got a kick out for radio, whatever you need, because they're only going to do so much, opposed to if it's major, you didn't got to do all that. But those are the things, it's a different decline. It's a different time now.

And that's for a lot of new artists that don't really understand the game. And everybody want to get on it, and, oh, I'm going to just drop Rex, I'm going to put out, I'm going to do this whole thing. It's not as easy as you think it's going to be, you know. And one thing, if you were to major, and if the record is not doing what they needed to be, it may not be good for you. So we got to, you know, it's not fair everybody. It's not fair. It's not. It's not.

And who get me wrong, I got the grind to be independent, but it's just like sometimes I want to have seven different things to do. So meaning, like, I've been in this game since 97? 96, really. Okay. 97, make what you're talking about? I don't give me an extra year. I had a song.

I had a song in 96. I didn't have an album, brother. You've been in the game. All right, all right, technically. Technically, boy, since 97. And it's like, damn, this can't be my only income because I want to do everything else. now, but when you're independent, you can't be independent 50%. You have to be 100 million percent.

You've got to call all the DJs. I remember being on Def Jam and Mike Heiser used to say to me, stop talking to these fucking the DJs, because the DJs will call me and they're like, yo, I need you at this party. I'm like, definitely, I'm there. And I'm never looking at the schedule. I'm talking to everybody. I'm at the same party.

And so Mike Haizers used to say, yo, let me speak to them. So when I fuck up, they blame me. They don't blame you. Now, when you're independent, you can't blame. No, no. You're not. It all falls on you. Yeah, so that's why I hate independent.

But I don't hate it. I don't hate it. You just spoil. Yeah, I get it. I get it. So let's get into this Trick Daddy and Trina. I want to know what are y'all working on. How does it sound?

Just do out of record, correct? We do out of record. Smooth Selling was just one of those records. I'm this guy, Ali, Coyote. He came in the studio. He was just playing a much. He's a Jamaican guy, so, you know, he came with different vibes or whatever. And that's the first time me and Trick ever did a record like that, you know,

even previous after the Nair record I've done records on Trick Project and it was still more grimy, more different Miami. That's what we want to hear. Everybody, I know that. As a fan, I want to, no, I want to know that. I'm sorry.

I'm sorry. I'm sorry. So, listen, I said that. I'm saying so, Trick. Okay, here we go. We're on the drum board. I'm over here, Tricks over here. What are you going to do?

What kind of record you want to do? Trick is in this vibe. He likes an old school vibe. He likes, I'm like, no, we got to go hardcore for the clubs. You got to. And we're like on two different ways. That's dope. but I'm in control.

Like he's gonna follow my lead because he knows. So we're just kind of just trying to get that record because it's really like we don't want like the now record because you can't duplicate that record but we did that already

we just want that next explosive record that's going to be just a great record that's out there like the next record and so I mean we got some records and y'all in the studio together we're in the studio you're not in the studio you like you know I ain't sending records

no no we end there like I'll go he'll come like he'll go in first he's a early bird yeah early bird I'm like a lady yeah he's a early bird so he likes to go on he likes to style okay I'm working on this record come to the studio

be there in like two hours. So that's what he likes to do. So I'll come in three hours. And then once I'm there, he already started on a record and he'll be like, you feel this, or whatever. He'll just have a couple of records

and I'd be like, yeah, I don't like this or. And now I'm staying, but when I start recording, he likes to go out. He said, my friends, everybody, he smokes too much. You know, Triggum, don't like to smoke regular weed. He just be on his own way.

So, yeah, so. We've been in the trick daddy party. Yeah, so we like that. We're in the same studio, but we're not in the same studio. And I mean, he's outside somewhere, You know, we're in there together. So it's a different, it's a good vibe because, you know, we like night and day but the same.

You know, like I don't have a problem. Him trick is real calm. He's, like, one of those, like a loose cannon, but he's still in the studio. It's just like this natural kind of family vibe with him. You know, if I don't like something. All right, I'm mad. He'll get anyone to start over. So, you know, it's a good energy.

Well, I'm going to let you know as a peer fan, like, I am so ready for that album. I'm so ready for y'all. Because to me, that, like, that shows years of loyalty to me. To me, I'm heavy into loyalty. Like when I see people that around people that have been around them for 20 years, it always impresses me. Like when I go around Jay-Z and I see, you know, shocker around still and I see Tata and I see Linnae S. And me knowing that I teamed them together in the 90s, it always impresses me. So, you know, just that combination, I just want to congratulate you on that.

Thank you. I think we all got to make some noise for that. Just to show that loyalty, I think loyalty in this game has been, I think it hasn't been rewarded. So people won't make it a major issue. Like if somebody's beefing or something, they make it a major issue. But just somebody just being lawyer, just me and EFN's relationship, for instance. He brought me to Miami, 17 years ago, right? Let's not say 20.

17 years ago. 15 years ago. 15 years ago. 15 years ago. Something like that. And we've been friends ever seen. And I think that that's the part of it that people should, you know, drink chance. We have success with this.

This is on Revolt TV. Thank you, y'all. But I don't think that that's not the biggest thing that people should focus on. People should focus on the relationship. And us just sitting down together and just, you know, putting what he got to do aside and putting, or I got to do the side and putting hip hop first. Because that's what we did. We just want to interview legends.

You know what I'm saying? We want to give people their flowers where they can smell them. You know what I'm saying? They trees while they can inhale them. They thoughts why they can think them. And they drinks why they can drink them, God damn. You understand? Because so many people, like, like we had did an episode.

after Prodigy Pass, and of course, we wanted to do a whole episode dedicated to him. But what I said was, you know, maybe we should have did that why they see people were alive. Like, it's cool to praise people when they're gone, and we know we have to do that. We know we're supposed to do that.

But I want to make it cool to praise them right there. Like, let's make that cool. You know what I agree. In hip-hop, they don't understand, like, you know, when people get off of their job, at a record label or get off their job at somewhere, you know, when you guys leave their building, you guys could live a normal life. We sacrifice our whole life.

Like, I could never say I'm not working. If I leave the house, I got to take a picture. Yeah. Like, somebody's going to be like, yo, what's up, nigga? I don't know what I got in my guy. They don't care. They don't care. They don't care.

I got to be like, worried up, niggas. Come on. I can't have a bad day. You know what I'm saying? Like, not in public. I got to stay in home. Tell these people how hard. And you're a superstar.

So tell these people how hard. No, you know what? It's really one of those things. Like, I'm really one of the most passionate people when it comes to that. Because I'm going to, I'm going to be honest. At 6 a.m. in the morning in the airport, I'm not with the shit. I just don't want to be bothered. It's early.

Like, the show was over. The after party was madly. You know, an hour and a half to get to the airport. And I understand you may never see McGee in, but it's 6 a.m. Like, I, like, just, but. The shade's the one. They don't care. Like, the lady was like, I don't care if you got on pajamas, a habit.

I don't care. I'm living another country. I'm not, I don't care. I'm not going to post. I know you're going to post a picture. I'm just taking because I just. Five minutes after she leaves you. I look at that, like, you know what?

If I was not like me and I was somewhere and I saw Beyonce, I don't care if she had a pimple. I don't care if she had paper bags on her feet. I want to make, I want my picture. I don't care. I don't care what's going on. So I'm just always that person. I try to do my best with that.

I know, you know, people, you know, they want that. You know, they don't know if they're going to see you again. They see you in the airport. They don't know if you're going to see you again. They see you at a concert or the club, wherever. When I'm going to see you next. So, you know, I always try to, like, salute that. I think I only said no one time.

I was throwing up. I was like, chill, Nichol. They still took the picture, though. They still want the picture, though, right? At least let me finish, homie. It'd be real because I understand that, and it's like, that's just hard for us. So when you live and you survive in this game for years,

I feel like you should be saluted. I feel like this is what it is. But now, so getting back because like Miami at this time, all we heard was booty music, right? Coming from New York, right? You're going to hear two live crew. I'm talking about before her and trick. Right, Luke, and then those are Titi money.

That was one of the most popular years. Right. So then when y'all came, so now I heard, I seen Rick Ross do an interview, right? And he was like, yo, Trina really held him down in the beginning of his career. Like, and he spoke so highly You, let's get into that, the early Rick Ross. Did he write, what was the Diamond Girl?

What was the name of that record for the movie sound film? No, he, we did, um, um, um, um, um, put you left in the game. That was the Ice Cube. Yeah, that's what I mean, yeah. What was it? All about the Benjamin? Well, so here's the thing.

I'm like, I'm just the new girl. Like, okay, Trick is my homie. He's cool. And there's a trade plus six guys. They're like the first guy, signed to slip and slide way, way, previous, but these are like my guys. See your also. See you.

Of course. See, all society. Oh, society. So all these guys, like, we're all cool, so I'm here. I'm around these guys, and then here's like, okay, now there's this new guy that's coming on, but he's trying to slip a slide also, but, you know, he's from Carrey City now. I'm from Liberty City, but it's Rick Ross. This is a big fat guy, you know.

So he's cool, though. He just reminds me of, like, my stepdad. He's a cool dude. He's from the street, so. But now I'm on the road with trick them, and everybody's busy, and everybody's nann is popping. And he's the, like, he's not on. But on the road, he's like, yo, take the mixtape. Like, you know, taking a roll.

And I'm just like, why? You know, but okay, I'm going to take it anyway because... He was working, too. Yeah, like, I'm going to take it. I don't even know why I'm taking it. I'm going to do a show. We're going to throw our shirts. So I'm going to throw this out anyway because somebody's going to listen and I don't know.

You're going to blow up next. I don't know why I'm doing. I'm just doing it because you ask me, do it. You're a cool person. You know, and then it just, like, once we started, once I came back, we started hanging in the studio. And then he just always been like, you know, his loyalty's always been like, so A1, you know? And he always, like, been right there, like, from the beginning. And so once it was like, okay, I'm taking your mixtapes now.

But now, here he goes. Here's Ice Cube calls and they got this record. I mean, they got this movie and it's the soundtrack and it's Slipped the slide. I got the record. So they want me to do the record. I'm like, okay, well, record now you got me. There's a trick. There's a couple other artists, but it's like, okay, tricks are already on.

Everybody's already doing anything doing shows. I'm going to give it to my boy Ross because he really want me to push his mixtape. He wanted him to grind. Like, let me give him the video. Like, let me get him the next. You saw he was a star? You saw he was a star? I just knew he was super dope.

Like he was just, he just reminded me of just like my life. Like he was like my dad, them, like my stepfather. And they were just like real street guys. And that was where he came from. People he hung around, I knew these guys. These guys in the streets getting money. So when he started talking and rapping, his music was about the hustle. It was about streets.

It was just that. And coming from Liberty City and knowing the guys from Carrey City, it's like, you know, a very close connection. All these people know each other. And so it's like, okay, well, Trick's already big. So I don't need to let Trick do the Ice Cube soundtrack. Trick already did this soundtrack. We already did other stuff.

So let me give it to my next dude trying to get on. And it's like, here's Ross. I hit him up. Yo, let's do. I need you to do the record for Ice Cube movie, right, whatever. And he's like, you serious? He was like, yeah, all right. Come on, come on.

Come to you, meet me in the studio 45 minutes. I'm there. He's already there. The song already working already. And I didn't even love this song. The girls really love this song. And Ice Cube, the people that are called and producers everybody, they love the record.

It was perfect for the slot for the movie. And it was a big record for the song. And it was just, I don't even really honestly look at it as I was putting, like helping him put, like really put him on. I just wanted to see him like on the road with me and tricked him. Like, everybody else on the road. Like, you know, I like stuff off his mix. We listen to it on a van, like, while we're driving. So why you can't come on the road with us and, like, you know, perform.

So I just looked at it as that, like, trying to help him out and get on. And then it was just that. And after that, he had his tight jerseys. Came with three jerseys, super tight for the video. But the video, you know, was done by Nick Quest. Nick Quest. And, like, this is our guy. So, like, I want to help my guy get this look.

And that was the look, and it just happened from now. Yeah. Did you ever think he would be this big, though? I knew because he was so street. He was like, he was what he was. Like, you know what I mean? It was not a facade. It was real street.

He came from the dudes that was holding the streets down. Like, when he did the song, every damn hustle, like, it was the real. I felt that every damn hustle. Because I was hustling to help you get your CDs on the road. So I knew he was hustling. You know what I mean? Like, it was real. Like, I know.

So I'm like, this is like, you did a video in front of Carac City Flea Market. Like, that's hustling. Like, you was really doing that. Like you wasn't, you didn't get the green light to get on the trick daddy bus shed to get on the road. Like you ain't have no records out. Right, you ain't know who you was. Like you just won the home team, but you ain't had earned no stripes. So, okay, I'm going to help, you know, throw our shirts, throw our CDs.

And then bam, he'll go, I'm going to help you get this one little look. It's going to be a video. Maybe that's going to help people know who you are. And it just happened. Now, what's your relationship with DJ Collett? DJ Callet. I love Cali. Callet just been there like from the beginning, you know?

I just remember, like, just when I first started, like, I was going to the radio station. and like Cali was just one of the ones that always was like supporting Trina Tricken Ross Like it was just one of the things that From it just it kind of was like a natural thing You don't have to really ask him he just did it You know So when Cala would hit me up hey come to my party

Come to this whatever I would always show up And it was just always the same Like we always had like a Just like this real like Loyal connection from day one And it always stayed that way you know Even no matter how big he got Like if I hit Calder I need you to do this

Like I hit Cali need you do this mixtape intro he in Miami Camp Studio do it Like right now on my album He starts the intro all You know I need you do this intro Like DJ Callet talk your talk I need to hear the clock talk Yeah yeah

Yeah yeah It's just one of the kind of things Like you know I'm just like again I'm one of people I'm not I don't bother people I just do me And you know like this is my man Like but I need you to talk on this intro

And you always come show love and your support So that's just how we keep it's always family I always support him You thought he would be this big Or for personality I did because his mouth is that big Yeah he's always been that big His mouth is

His mouth is just his whole lifestyle His carter with his mouth You know what I mean? He's always had that talk He's always had that That something about his voice Was just very distinct It was very different from most other DJs on radio

And he always would be extra with it And you know he always would get you in the room And he'd do so much And he was just entertaining So I would like to see him now I've been seeing him like that for years Like I'm in the studio with him And he's like that

Now the world just really good to see You know it's just like Cali on steroids You know what I mean? Is it going to be Trina, Trick Daddy, DJ Collet, Rick Ross record? Oh, wow, we need to get that, though. Did I just predict that? Trick, don't, no, no. I threw it out.

Yeah, you're doing the universe. Because realistically, Trick was already saying that he already won the record that Callet was doing, and, you know, I'm getting the whole thing was 3 or 5 Miami. So I don't know how we're going to kind of create it or what we're going to do it. Oh, I love Pitt, Pete. You got to keep it mad Miami. Don't put nobody on there, but nobody else. All right, just keep it mad Miami.

So, yeah, Trick wants that, though. So, you know, we'll see how that work. So, Trica, always talking to Cal. So, you know, he's going to Cal, I need that record. Yeah, that's dope, man. Let's make some noise for that. Because I love seeing that unity. I love that unity.

I love that unit. I love that. Now, the, you remember the sauce cover? Source, ooh, a long time. You remember the sauce cover? What was that? The Swim Shoot Edition? Source swimsuit.

Was that the first time that it ever did that? Yeah, I did. The swimshoot edition. Yeah. Was it the last time they did it, too? How many times did they do that? I'm not sure. I'm not sure either.

I think that, but I remember that just being, like, everywhere. That was, like, the first viral cover of hip-hop. Yeah. So how was that? I mean, you know, I was really young. At that point, I just, I didn't really look at it all like that. I mean, it was all good.

Everything was good. The Source magazine is the keenness, all these different magazines. All of it was just that to me. I wasn't really, like, I wasn't really, like, infatuated with the facade of all this stuff. You know what I mean? come from Miami. I'm used to seeing all this. I came from a family with money already. I'm not really impressed by much. So it takes a lot.

The King couple is hanging around in the career? I have. No, my mom. She steals everything. She don't let me like, she have every single thing from everything. Okay, like if anything I'm missing, she has. Oh, y'all, let's give off. No, she has that. I'd be like, mom, what did you get there from? But yeah, you know, I just was like,

it just all started just happening like so fast, you know? I think I never got caught up into the all of it because I was so busy working. I always worked. I never like took mad long times.

I would put out my album every two years. My first album came out of 2000. That was the very first album, the baddest shit. Then 2002. It was always be these two year breaks and because I was always performing, traveling, doing so much.

So I never really took the time off out of any of it. So I never got caught up in the magazines and the whole thing. And people would be like of and I just be like, you know what I mean? I don't know why.

I just, because I wasn't excited about more of that. People would be like, oh, somebody has your magazine in the jailhouse. I'll be like, oh, yeah. Yeah. You know, like, and I was heavy in the jails, girl. I was like, well, I'm all over the jailhouse. I'm like, okay. But I just, I guess I was so much caught up into the performing. I was caught up into the real, like, reach out and touch and meeting people and entertaining more than anything. But it sounds like we have to tell you how much you're appreciated in the hip hop. You are a queen. You are always had class. You stayed in these

people faced with the music. Whoever doubted you, you proved them haters, you proved them wrong. So we want you to know that you are undoubtedly. All we want to interview is legend, and we want you to know undoubtedly you are a legend. We've been trying to get her for months, too, right? We were trying to get her for a month. I'm going to get her for a few times. I'm just keeping 100.

I don't know what, but you know why. Maybe I see you at college on the spot. And I said I was going to do it, but what am I doing? I was going to get in a room full of people and we're going to talk about. Why are you going to be one people that's going to be like talking all these rumors. about stuff. No, no, no. And I just really, like, I really curved that stuff.

I just be like, you know, everybody asks the same old question. Look at this. This is. This is hip-hop I'm asking you about. And it is. It's so real. Like, you know what? And I remember the time you've been asking.

Even when my publicist called a couple days ago, she was like, I was like, I was like, Alicia. Now you know. But it's Norris, so you know, all right, I'm just giving the benefit of the dollar. Yeah. So everything don't be all good. And we keep with the hip hop here. We ain't, we ain't talking, you know, all that.

You know, we don't need that. Because it'd be so much distraction. Yeah, you don't need that. And the thing for me is, like, for the past five, six years, even when I put out my album before and just eat this up, every time something comes out, it's always distract. It's always somebody's beef. So now when I promote my album, we got to talk about such and such a beef. And it's always that. So you just be drawn.

I'm like, I don't, I just curve on. See, I'm an artist too. So I get it. I get it. I understand. And that's the thing about this is, I think they, they quote unquote, call me a legend, right? You are a legend. So when they say that about me.

You are a legend. Okay. So we can cover that, you are a legend. Yeah. So, yeah, yeah, yeah. I knew it was coming. I knew it was coming. So that's what we need to promote.

We need to keep bigging each other up. This is, so when at the time, when you think about it, like artists should come here first. Artists should come here and say, you know what? You know, because this is another artist who understands and gets to know that. I don't want to be talking about your past boyfriends and things like that. That's not what you're here for. We're hip-hop. We're going to keep it hip-hop.

We're going to talk about the music. and you know what I'm saying? But the artists have to promote the artist. Because this is now a platform for us where we want our people to chill. So now let's get back into some music shit, right, EF? Let's get it. Come on, I feel like you got some Miami question.

No, I hear what she's coming from on the female angle, like what advice do you have to female emcees? And you know that they're going to steer females into, again, going back to the hypersexuality, like, what are they going to, what do they have to deal with? Coming into the industry. Well, you know, it's just, it's a lot. Like, it's a male-dominated industry, for one.

And, I mean, it's, everybody makes it a whole sexual thing, whatever not. Being sexy is not a crime. Right. Nobody wants to see an unsexy woman. I mean, as far as however you go, however you live, your sexuality or whatever, that's your business. But when it comes to women being expressive, everything that you're doing and you're expressing, every one of these women has living and doing the same thing. I don't know why they all act so nonchalant and crazy.

Like, this is all a new blind sight. It's not stopping. You guys are all somewhere, pop, lock and dropping, doing whatever you're doing. Some of us, but judging somebody else like just knock it off already, you know? I just feel like for females, you just got to be strong. You know how hard it is to be a woman and to just be like just proceed or just to be, is there's a misconception because you say whatever you say in a song or because you wear a dress and it's two inches above the thigh or whatever.

That's just an annoying fact. Like everybody don't have to wear the skirts all the way down to the knees. You don't have to be this, you know, sanctify the holy person. You just have to be a good human being. What are you doing? Music, sports, TV, magazine, makeup, whatever. Just be a good person. And when it comes to this music thing, if you're not a woman and you're very confident

and you are, and your, this is here is good, you are definitely will be totally screwed in this industry. You will not survive in this industry. And I'm talking about no matter what, I don't care how much money you make in a way. You can have all the money, all the money. I have all the money. and there's some times I've been at my lowest. And the only thing that's kept me up is because I know who I am as a person. And when I look at the thing that has put me to my lowest, I'm looking like,

bro, pick yourself up. Are you serious? You feel me? And that's just because I know my worth. And as women were emotional, you step outside of your work, you fall down, you fall in love, you get crazy. Whatever you do, but you're still human, you're woman, you're all of that. But you have to own up to that. You have to believe in that.

You have to make your, is nobody can take away who you are and what you are as a person but you. I don't care what the rumors, the stories. I don't care if you, you start. you saw me, you saw me that wasn't me. I don't care. I'm just saying nobody to take away from you but you and that's just real fact. And if you don't stand up for yourself and be just, you just got

be like a real, you know what a real woman is? Somebody that's just like unfazed, unbothered. That doesn't mean you don't cry or doesn't me, you don't get mad or doesn't, you don't go through anything like anybody else, but you just have to be strong and inferior and know that shit happens every single day. It'll pass, you'll get over and keep it moving.

Like, imagine being a woman in this industry that's so critical, so male dominated, so nasty, so talked down upon all that for 17 years, right? For 17 years. And still can run circles around half of these fucking people in this whole industry. And still making hit records too. And still. So that's

men and women. So that's what I'm saying. So for myself, I've been in situations, relationships public and unpublic. I'm not a person, if something will work out public, we're human beings. Or we could get into it today. We could be the best people today, tomorrow. We may not like each other. Do that mean I have to drag your name the mud and make you like the worst person of the earth. I don't have to do that.

Because at the end of the day, I still have my life. I keep it move. You have your life. Keep it moving. I don't want to be your enemy. I don't want to hate you. I don't want to be disgusted by you. Just keep it moving because you know what disgusting creature that you are.

You know what I mean? So that's just me bashing people. You don't hear me bashing down. I just keep it moving. That's just who I'm just so way. Are we talking about the fuckboy record right now? I just feel like we're talking about that. No, fuck boy record.

That's just one of those record. That's just real facts in life. like there's a lot of fuckboys. And the reason there's, the reason because there's so many fuck boys, the reason there's so many fuck boys is what made women become like not real women.

Like I come from, I think after my generation, women have totally turned into wanting to be like men. And when I say that, meaning like I feel like there was a time like my friends and the people, I grew up under boss.

When I say boss women, women that like ran the household, ran the bags, the money, anything the man did it came through them. That's a real woman. Anything happened. They held down. They have everything.

Like, this is real woman. I don't know all this generation of foolishness that's going on. I don't adapt to all that. I don't play them kind of game. That's why when something don't work out with me with the man, I don't care how public figure he is. I'm not trying to tell you now because you already know the clown that you is. I'm just let you live with that.

So when I say that, so now with women, my generation of women, as a man, men do whatever they do, whatever you do, you do your thing. But at the end of the day, don't be the woman that turn into the man. You cannot be the man. And so because women are starting to do that, men are just turned into fuck boys and women are just turned into totally completely idiots and it's just

a disgraced generation that we're living in it I don't like all that kind of stuff you feel me? We have to make it! Damn! Shot time, I'm not this is Miami though, you know?

You know what I mean? This is Miami, though. You guys keep it real. It's like the not of love of realness going on. No, no, no. And this is what we're promoting right here. And like I said, like you're a queen you're a person that held it down

for females females I wish others a lot more female love out there you know what I mean It's some beautiful females in the industry music R&B rap, hip-pop pop pop It's some beautiful females Imagine the power that that can Be if everybody was like on the same

Mental It would be it would be It would be crazy Right That would be insane No I think I think I think

Hold whoa whoa whoa whoa Yeah just make sure Because hot champagne kill people That is a fact Yeah I've seen it No, in my mind That's in my mind

That's your shot? That's your shot that you're in? No, no, I want a real shot I take a real shot Okay, okay We're gonna take Sir Rock We're gonna big up Diddy real quick Okay

Shout out to Diddy Niggas ain't have it Cold, damn You like the regular Drink girl? Yeah Yeah You got flavor

You get the flavor So you don't like flavor Yeah And we made sure There was no fresh vanilla Yeah That's cool I'm not

I'm not a hate on that Shut out to the fresh vanilla I'm trying out to everybody's getting that bag. That's just me. I just love everybody to just have a good time. That's all I am. You know what it is? I do not entertain the negativity.

I just don't. I mean, it's not. I do not. I do not. I do not entertain negativity. This is hilarious. I just dogs. And that's how I live life, man.

You know, for real, man. Like, I got, I got homies. Hey, come on you want me for old. She's going to do that. What's going on? I'm like. Wait, too. This session is going to be lit tonight. Okay, now listen, this is everybody. Everybody raise your glasses.

This is not South Beach. This is to the Real Miami 3.05 live. To the real. This is to you. To me. We love you. Wait, she's real than us right. Hold on. Yeah, I ain't lie. Let's say. I ain't going to lie. Come on. You're talking about. You're talking about it. You're talking about to get on. What are you doing? Come on, Nari. What are you doing? You made a mad song just now. Come on.

Let me get my life together. Salo. So listen, this is to you, sis. Thank you. This is to you. You are queen. Thank you. We want you to continue doing it.

We want you to continue to make these people, whatever they're mad at you or whatever. We can continue to be mad. We don't mind. Just to relax. Tell them to relax, EFA. They got to relax. And we're going to salute you every day,

Treen up the motherfucking queen. Salo. Salo, and we're taking this down. It's real far. I'm building. Mm. Now this is how I know you're a gangster, because you actually, a tequila girl. Well, anybody to drink tequila, you cut people before.

I know this. I know this. Especially, you're too beautiful. This is not how you drink tequila. Beautiful girls drink tequila. You stabbed a couple of people. Let's talk about that. Back in the days.

I'm just a very sweet person. I'm just very respectful. I came, like, from a real, like, real. I came from the last of the real of real of Miami. Like the mafia. Yeah, like don't play. I don't play all the extra, all that. I'm not on the way of that.

This industry stuff, I'm not on the way with it. This is like, it's facade. When you real, you don't do all that. You just do what you do. Like, you move, how you move. That's how you last, how you last. And that's just how I've lasted. With those that thought I could not last, I'm still here because I'm just too, it's a real thing.

You know, it's no fake. When you fake, the mask off, everybody sees what's really good, you know what I mean? What was that moment when you realized? Because, you know, we all have to go through it. We all thought everybody, like the rappers is who we think they are, who they talking at all. What was that moment when you was like, holy moly? This is all. What's these clowns doing? Yeah. Oh, it was very, what, okay? Whatever you want to, how do you want to take it? Because I can see you got, you got mad shit coming

to you. You know what? Imagine just me, like, realistically, I came into this industry, like, thinking like a dude, like I came around the guys. There's Trick Daddy now there's CEO and Money Mark. C.O., big up C.O. Then I put my boy Rick Ross on, so he was like, I got like, all guys. So I imagine I'm the only girl. These guys are mad, annoying. They are mad. I'm just like the sister and I'm just thinking like as a girl. And were they horny Montanas?

Were they out of their hony? They was out of control. They was out of their horny. No, they, no. And I'm thinking, so imagine me. I'm thinking from the girl in and the guy in. And as a girl, what type of chicks are these that stooped so low

to be jumping around from one to the neck every single night? Do you smoke? No, okay. Of course, I'm from the Caribbean. Of course I'm smoking. Oh, my bad. My bad, my bad.

You smoke, all you want, papers. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. I wasn't. gentleman at all. I should have offered you early. I'm sorry, look at that. So check it, right? Yes, I'm listening. So now here we go. These are the guys.

Look at the women. Yes. We like to get our guests high. We celebrate you. We get you high, but we celebrate you. So now, from the guys' perspective, these are my guys. But these are the guys that's taking advice from me. All these girls are here at these hotels to see you guys because of me. They think I'm going to be here. So I'm the bait. I'm the reason you guys came. Oh, we're going to see Trina.

Yeah, yeah. We're going to come. Right. But now when Trina's not here, it's just the guys. What do you guys? What are you guys? Like, what's going on? Like, that's me. My girls would never be there.

We don't roll like that. No, because you said something on Nia nigger and all the girls was on you. Oh, the guys, let it quick. The letter to make the clear. You said, you said something. Yeah, yeah, I did. I come from a bunch of girls. My friends started, they danced.

They be all over the place. I come from the, like, streets where there's real girls. I saw so much stuff growing up. Yeah. Right next to me. So so many girls was on you. It keeps me so grounded and. humble to where I like my bitches could tag team whoever and run circles around these dudes

grab the bag and keep it moving so this is real facts so when it comes to this industry these dudes are like lame because like if I see these girls on y'all it's over so I'm just a humble piece of pie because I'm already coming from a good place a good family money like I'm not I didn't come into this like it's a real thing people come into this to make money of course it's a life change or I like you turn from one life to like a different life but my purpose wasn't like pushing CDs and coming in to get money

I'm doing a favor trick now I'm coming I was really struck because of the fame because girls was like going crazy they loved me they were saying every word of everything that I say and these are my home girls that are wild and bustling it wide open and they're loose and this is their life and I'm right here saying and I'm just confused that every word I'm saying you girls are saying it like even I'm not

saying nothing it's a beautiful feeling and I'm watching some of these girls like react in a way in the lyrics but to these These guys like Trick Ross, these money, I'm a girl. I wouldn't even, I wouldn't even, y'all could never even convince me to come to the hotel with y'all. That's just how, that's how I am. So I'm looking at it in different ways. I'm from the guy's perspective and the girl's perspective.

But I'm putting game on these guys, but I'm looking at these girls. Like, I've got to do my album to put y'all on game. Like how to do what's game. Like, don't get played. Don't sell yourself short. Don't settle for anything. Oh, you was telling the girls that while I'm trying to try to take them down? No, in my mind.

That seems like you shouldn't have been doing that. In my mind of watching this, I'm saying now I'm on the road with trick, but I've got to prepare my album. And now in my album, when I'm in my room and I'm in my zone, I'm going to put girls on game because what I've seen happening, I don't roll like that. My girls, we're from Miami from the 3 or 5. We don't play them kind of games. Like, we look dead in the eye. We don't play them kind of games. Like, you already lost when you hit the dough.

They don't even play what you want. And they sit in a phase, they already won. So I'm trying to figure out all out of the country. These girls are like, lame. Like I could run a whole school of girls And like could run over the industry And everything in the sports world And like get the bags and go

Sounds like a show to me I'm ready to get that show Like I'm just saying so I'm like a show to me I'm in I just was trying to understand like Like like I'm like a little protected Like my dad is like a boss

He's a dude in the streets Getting a bag So even the street dude that's getting money They can't touch me They're scared because they're scared of my dad My stepdad So I'm untouchable So now I'm in a household

Full of bosses Now when I see street dudes Y'all can't tell me nothing I'm running circles around you I'm in this already So now what are you going to come like It got a you feel me So I'm already thinking like a dude

Because I come from this I'm around now these dudes Trick is a loose cannon On the road Ross is just a boss He's a fat boy but he's so swaggy And he got the talk so he could get He could say whatever

And they're going CEO and Money Mark is a cute dude So the girl's gonna just I'm looking at these girls I was like, bro, like, I could own a whole pimp school, like, and get y'all together. Oh, you was putting them on? You was telling them. No, I was trying to see why was girls really, like, excited to, like, jump off out of our concert and go back with Trick Ross.

Like the groupie shit. Yeah, like, I didn't get that because that's not how me and my girls back from Miami roll. We're not on that. So I'm trying to figure, like, damn. Yeah, but out of town, let's not blow that part up. Let's let that continue to happen. But imagine going on my world like that. I feel like that.

I feel like rappers are going to call me and say, why you ain't stop dreaming. That's going on the whole world like that, though. So I'm a girl, so I'm thinking like these dudes. I'm looking at some of these girls like, yo, my, you pretty, you're so fly. Like, you should come to Miami. Like, I can wave you up. Like, these dudes is laid. Like, he's my brother.

His ass is assy. Like, come on. Like, come on. Like, you get what I'm saying? Like, I was just trying to put game on from the beginning. So that's why when I did my album, it was more like putting women up on game. Like how to get the bag. How does get your money save up?

Get your weight up. Like, don't depend on. That's how I, because I peaked it from my dudes. Like, these are my brothers. I'm watching you guys, you guys not even much fly. Like, y'all don't even have a lotion on. Y'all, y'all looking real assy to the chicks. Like, come on, like, you feel me?

I'm a chick, so I'm trying to, like, I'm trying to figure what's really good. So I'm just, you know, I was in the middle of both, like, you know. I was trying to, I was me, but I was protected from them. Dudes couldn't get next to me. And I'm just like, yeah, that dude's lame. Like, I don't even want y'all anyway. And these other dudes trying to get through y'all to me, they definitely ain't going to get through. And I'm looking at all y'all.

These girls are fall in, y'all really? Like, I need to teach a whole world of school of, like, how to get it. That's what I was thinking. I'm thinking that, too. You feel me? I think that's the show. You know. So, now, I have to ask now.

Yeah. Now, is Trina single or? Trina is happy in love and, like, just living her life to the fullest, like. That's all. Yachting on the islands, you know, like, you know, just chilling. You know, that's what I like to do. I'm a love lover. I love love.

I believe in love. I believe people should be loved. I think there's a lot less love. And I think the reason our generation is so jacked up because there's so much game playing the game. Everybody's playing the game. You know what the game is. You tell me something.

I tell her. She tell him everybody, people are talking a bunch of bullshit. And everybody's living the game. That's not a wave. I didn't grow up into that. Everybody started being real. Then it'll be a lot less, a bunch of that, you know.

Fuck boys will disappear. You feel me? Yeah. I feel like I'm going to make boys about. So now. So now. God damn it. I just keep making noise for you.

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work with the unhoused community has made a huge impact online and in her community. Listen to Wey and Hous on the IHard Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. You came here. Yo, listen. Yo. No, no. I'm so impressed because you know what's the real shit is this is real. This is why I'm trying to, we're trying to do this because we want to promote real shit.

And this is just a real moment. And this is like, ladies got to come here. and realize because we need more without a problem getting ladies on the show well you know why

like Queen Latif can you come MC liking you I love Queen Latif I love Queen Latif I love it but you know why because most of these shows

it's the blogs we ain't blogs but but it falls under a category of blogging of talking of talking shit and gossiping about people

I'm not a gossiper I'm not a he say she say if you want to know something Trina said guess what call Trina don't ask Trina

Homegirl Trina's assistant Trina's going to tell you what Trina said because that's how I told Norrie and Norrie told you told my man, C.O. And it got back all twisted. I don't rock with that. You feel me? So when you get these shows, it's one of the kind of things

like, it's the same thing. Like, these people get up every single day to be negative and they try to tell your life down and they talk a bunch of shit and they just do a bunch of weird old stuff and it's just not cool. So people just don't want to be embarrassed or just be put on the forefront of some shit that they don't feel like talking about me. I'm just I'm loose like with it. I don't, you can say whatever.

See, that's the thing about the art show. I don't know if you ever see. It's something called Inside the NBA, where it's actually Charles Barclay and Charles Barkley and, uh, what's my man? Kenny Smith, he's from Lefrak and Shaq. And these are all ex-basketball players and they interview. Yeah, I like them show. They talk too much. They do not, no, no, no. But they interview the other basketball players. And what I mean is, they're inside of the NBA. And this is what this is, is because I'm in hip-hop. Like, I ain't gonna, I ain't gonna put no artists where they want to feel, you know, insecure or out of place or ask them some crazy jazz. I ask them some crazy. I ask me what they ask. It's crazy.

You asked you asked him. Did you ask you that because he's the eating one? You know I asked. I asked him. Oh, okay, got to ask. How many rappers are you to eat your ass? Let's just throw that out there. No? No, come on. Like in your case, come on. You know the numbers I count it. Of course.

Is we in the thousands? We, we're so weird. I'm just saying, but what's the purpose, though, after that? Because after you, my answer, I'm not calling you, I'm going to curve you all that. So what's you really trying to get out of this? You could be the greatest ass eater. Come on to the next year. What's really good.

Let's be very clear. The greatest ass eater. The greatest ass eater. The greatest ass eater. That's going to be a drink test of a war. That's a drink to have a war. That's a drink to ask you. You see his name, the greatest adage.

I was going to do. Yo, oh my God. Oh, my God. You're trying to have some substance and stuff that we do. Like, stuff all happens all the time. Everybody, you know. Let me just grab a moment right now, right now. Because I still don't know if you're single and now, right?

So how does a man... She's not single? You're not single. Let's go to Norris school. How does a man approach Trina? Oh, weird and shit. It's always annoying. Well, let me tell you something about me.

For one, let's go. Let's be first. I don't go on dates. I'm not a dater. I don't want to go to no weird-ass dinners. I don't want you sitting up staring under the lights all dim. Asking a thousand million questions. That's like weirdo to me.

You're very intimidating, though. Let me just throw it out there. Like, how does a man try to bag? I'm so cool. But that's because you're like, people get, they're so stuck on like this whole baddest bitch persona. So realistic, I'm like a person. My friends, they're here. They're testified.

You come to my house. These are your friends. All my friends. I'm cooking the shit. You see the meals I cook. Lobster. Like all kinds of good shit. Like I'm like a Caribbean chef.

I treat my friends like royalty. I make sure they're good. When you come, as a man, if you're trying to talk to me, it's like the baddest bitch, like, quick. They're like, you don't see me in the kitchen cooking. You're ready to think I'm on the balcony, probably like with my lingerie on, with champagne. And your visions be so fucked up to you ruin the whole moment.

I'm just saying, I'm going to keep the real. Let me tell you what happened the other day. I'm not going to say no names, right? For one of my friends, he meets. Instagram, right? Okay. And they go, they go, damn, because the chick, you better to be quiet. So the first thing he does is he goes to Instagram.

He goes, I can't fuck with this bitch. And I'm like, why? She's on yachts. Niggas is like, hold on, man, I can't show her nothing. Okay, so, and that's intimidation. That intimidation. So what you want a bitch to be like in a grocery store? We don't know.

At Walmart, the park. We don't know. I'm just saying, but that's a thing. But I'm just saying, like, the real list of you because don't get me wrong. Some of these people, these girls on Yards, they're on. I mean, don't give me wrong. I'm not a hated. Do you what you got to do.

You're on a Yard. I don't care what you do. How you got on there. That's your business. She owned restaurants and shit. Do all that. It gave up. But that's a weak man.

That's being weak, though. That's being weak. You're weak. Because that mean, you ain't stepping up to the plate. That means your intimidation game is so low. You can't even handle shoddy from the get-go. very real. So she's on a yacht.

You're trying to figure out. And she's on a yacht. You're going to be trying to figure out what she's selling off from because you're trying to figure out what's really good. Don't get intimidated. Don't get weak by that. But, I mean, it is what is in like the perception, like just the perspective of what he may think, how are you on this yacht, who you're on this yacht with. I don't see about in the background.

You know, when you yachting and they're sailing and traveling around and rolling things, you know. Yeah, it's intimidating, though. I had to agree with him a little bit. I was like, worry, you can't do that. But why? Maybe she's running a business. Maybe she's doing her thing. Maybe she's peppering herself. Like, that's what she did.

This is how I know I'm not a good friend. I was like, yeah, you can't do night for her. Why? You should let this one go. You don't like yacht. He don't like yachts. I'm not going to get hurt. I knew what I was like, huh?

Yeah, but it's just that. She's going to work every day for like four months. Oh, she's working. I don't know what she was no one. Working. Yeah. She's up there. She should have been inspired by that. I ain't going to lie.

I was intimidated for him. But that's intimidation. Why? But why? Are you intimidated by the chick to sit in the bus? I'm waiting for the bus to pick her up? I guess I think men always want to feel needed a little bit. You can't be providing. You can't be providing, but just because I'm on the yacht,

then you can't provide. You can't provide a yacht maybe. You can't provide a helicopter. I don't know. You can provide something. But hey, stop providing shit. We can't bring you. I'm trying to tell you what we're going with it. She said, y'all are the hell. We go to the movie.

Your wiggins is like this. She's only we told you. Like, I mean, you think women are, because Amber Rose, didn't Amber Rose sit here and say the same thing? She said, she looked at us and said, listen, I, she haven't been on a date for a whole year. And we're like, what? No, women are like dates because it's like a corny thing. I honestly. So if you're a guide and you want to go to this whole dinner, don't, if you're in Miami, let's cut the prime 112 thing out.

That's just like very thoughtish. It's very like you're going to go to date. That's very much like very sexual. You don't date. What do you do? What is the first step? And I'm, I'm, I'm, be honest, I don't really know because I'm not a dateer.

So I don't know. I don't want to give that advice because if you, I haven't met a person like a new person in so long to where you start asking these questions. And the questions are the past and your life. And did you date this is a new. Like the interrogation. Just this whole face. And it's one of those things that's very. And you're at dinner, though.

Don't be at dinner. You're eating. You're trying to make sure you're a girl. You're going to. nothing's in your teeth. You're just doing a bunch of weird or shit. This is not a cool thing. And for me, the questions, I'm for it.

Like, the staring in the eyes, just trying to get this whole... You're looking at the baddest bitch first album. So how you're skipping all that? I'm not on that. Like, I'm just, I'm trying to figure it out. Like, I don't know. I've always kind of skipped it with just...

You go straight to the family? No, I'm straight to like... I'm straight to, like, private jet to the neck. Like, wait a... We all... We all losing. What a... Let's go on.

Wait, hold up. No, no, seriously. Trina, that's intimidating. No, okay, so now I'll intimidate you. I'm just not like the beginning dating stage. I don't like the weird questions. I don't like all. I'm just me, but some of my friends, one of my friends, she is,

no, my friend, she is the dater of the century. She would go on a dinner day every day. Like, she don't care who is. If you take her to dinner, she's going to go to dinner. So let me just describe this moment. You meet Trina. You meet Trina. But I'll send you my friend at a dinner day.

Because she's going to talk. She don't care. She's very sociable. You got a decoy. I'm not the one. I don't want to start saying. I don't want to start talking about Nan and just how big trick and back in the day. And oh, yeah, did you really date Wayne?

I don't want to get into the questions. While you're on the plane, right? I don't care about Smith & Walenski. I just don't want to deal with it. I just kind of, so I don't really date. I don't know how to even meet nobody. So what are you going to ask me? Can I do that work at Costco's.

She only dates pilots. Well, let me space. I'm not about Costco. I mean, Costco. I'm even day pilots. They move around too much. I'm real. I'm just really too much. Let me tell you. Damn, Polly's not even. I'm not. I just talking to have the plane on it. Trulah, you're going in. Trinla. But Costco's, let's say that. The thing about a person that works at Costco's, they, it's, don't get me wrong. It's nothing wrong with that. Great discounts. You are independent. You have a job. And I'm a person that loves some discount.

Don't get it twisted. But a Costco's guy would not be able to deal with the pressure of my life. You can't deal with a woman that's traveling around the world four days out of a week. It's too much of an intimidation. You can't deal with the pressure of where you're working at Costco's from 6 to 12 midnight stocking and bagging the shit or whatever. And then I'm somewhere like in London and Europe and then like Denmark at Christian. and just whining out. Christianity, that's where you can smoke weed through the park.

Oh, see what I said? Damn it. No, Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico. But so you don't understand that life. That's a pressure to you because we're on different time zones. We're on different. What if you meet your soul name?

I feel really bad for this guy at Costco. I'm just saying, not going to be, but that's what a pressure would be from a regular guy because when you get off work, I want to talk to you. I want to see you. Maybe I don't care of his face time, whatever. I'm performing. You, sleep. You off work.

I'm traveling. It's just one of those things that really don't always connect and then it could be pressure. You're intimidated because I'm around other celebrity people that you really think I'm paying attention to that really I'm not even paying no attention to.

I paid attention to these people, believe it or not. If you were in my shoes, you wouldn't pay no attention to me, though. They're not that special. Just don't understand. Don't get it twisted. A lot of these celebrities, these guys, girls, whoever, they're not that special. It's some regular people that I know

I chill on a regular basis. I'm way more special than these people. but are very cocky with these egos and really just nasty, unhumanized people that really ain't worth shit, honestly. You know what I mean? And that's just how. That's why I stay so grounded

because I'm around regular people that's real life. And it's a real life thing. It's loyalty, it's longevity. It's years after years after years after years. Not a person I met two weeks ago because I was hot on the charts and you was riding my dick, not you.

You know what I mean? The one that's been there from day one when the song wasn't hot on the charts and when you went to the club and they probably said, whoa, who was that? Yes, me. Them people.

That's the kind of people I roll with. Now, have you ever, like, let it get to you? Because I let it get to me at one point in your career. Yeah, at one point, I was just, I bogged out. Some of these cars getting broken into about a little bit. I hope it's not mine. Let's be very clear. A little.

But have you ever let it get to you? Like, ever? Like, once? Never, because, you know what? Again, because I came already from, like, this Miami thing where people already knew who I was. It was a little bit almost annoying. You know what I mean?

I mean, annoying who I was. I mean, I'm just, I'm not even nobody. I'm just a daughter of a family that's already getting paper. I am somebody, but I'm just a daughter of somebody. I haven't earned no stripes in the streets. I haven't done nothing. I'm not doing anything. My family's doing.

I'm just me. And just sometimes people know who you are. It's almost annoying. Like, you just have this persona. You don't even want people to know who you are. You just want to be just a good person to your friends have a good time. And you just have this, this thing that people hold you so high for. And you don't even know what's really going on.

That's the kind of thing. So nobody's going to act like the alarm is not going on? Nobody? Somebody's car's about to get, Jesus. But yeah, so, you know, it don't really get to me. Drain, that's you, Drain. That's your car.

I mean, it's one of those kind of things, you know. I always just try to just stay as what the people are. You know what I mean? Because as high as I get, I mean, as high as I am, as big as I get, there's some people that's beneath. There's some people that still love me from day one that's never going to make nowhere near the money I make or be able to do things that I do.

So I'm still like, there for them people. I love that. You know what I mean? So the other day I was with Fad Joe. And I believe, I think Jay calls him and Jay asked. Oh, no, no, no. Fat Joe told me that Jay called him when I seen to him.

And he said that Jay asked them, well, what makes you keep going? Why the fuck you keep going on this? Why do you keep going? I think it's the energy from the fans of people. You know what? because sometimes, like, when I'm, I just came back to Miami last night. Like midnight. I went straight to the studio.

I was on a record with one of the biggest artists in the game. You know what I mean? And I'm thinking like, well, I just flew like six hours. I'm tired. I'm over it. When I got off that plane, that phone call came, the verse was in. It was like, go to the studio. And it's just one of the things that I just love what I, I just love the face.

I love the people. I just love the excitement. I think I'm so in love with, like, being on the road for those four days in these cities that I've never been to. And these people that are screaming every song in another language, do y'all even know what I'm saying? I don't even know if y'all know. But y'all are so pumped up and crying and twerking and losing it men and women to, I don't have no choice but to be at 100. Like, you understand? So I love that.

So, oh, wait, now I get back now, and when I'm just home and I'm just in my own beautiful world, and I'm not doing anything, I just get bored. I have so much stuff happening. Oh, I'm not working. I'm not entertaining the people. I'm not performing. I'm not exciting the fans. What am I doing?

I'm not doing anything. I don't want to get a massage today. I don't want to go on a yacht today. I don't want to chill today. I want to go get on the stage and make the people go crazy. I want to take all my jury off and jump in the crowd. Like, I just want to go back. Like, that's the thing that pumps me up. So I don't know. That's what I love about it. More than any of it,

like, records, no record selling. I don't care. It's the fans. It's the... The people that when I get in the... When I'm taking a picture, you start crying. I'm looking like, you've got on a lash. I'm not messing with my lashes, so you need to stop crying and look beautiful. I love that. That's the thing that makes... I love that, like, more than anything.

Yeah, that is so dope, man. Let's make some noise. That is so dope. Now, you know what? Because I'll be around certain artists and I see them flip on their fans with just, you know, sneaking a picture and taking a picture. And it's like how you just described that, how you just, that's so beautiful because the thing about it is, I always look like this is, this is a advantage for me because meaning

they told me I supposed to be dead at 21. They like, how I was living. And for me to be, I'm 39 now, I'll be 40 September. Don't rush my shit. September? September? September? It's next month.

Oh, next month. September, when? September 6. Okay. Oh, okay. What's your son? I'm Virgo. Okay, Virgo.

Oh, Virgo. Oh, Virgo. Oh, Virgo. We get it on a road. Yeah, that's Beyonce, Jay-Z. I'm Geminae. Oh, Gemini. Oh.

Jiminized. We could. We could. Was it a German? But listen, man, EFN, Miami's mixtate, King, Trina, Miami's Queen, we are so proud to have this episode and we wanted to let you know

anytime you want to promote anything we write your decrib. If we ain't at this spot, we're going to be at another spot. If we ain't at that spot, we're going to be in Miami. Miami is our home. I'm a rapper. I'm a rapper from Queens, New York, Lafrax City, 97-dats 30 to 57 Avenue, apartment 5, E. Corona, New York. 11368, apartment 5E, this is where I'm from. Jesus, how do you get a letter?

Because you never forget your original address. You know what I mean? So, but I moved to Miami, Miami accepted me. Miami embraced me as a day home. And I've been out here for over 10 years. You have? Yes, I've been out here. I might be going on 12.

Mom in 12, 12, you like, you love Miami? I love Miami. It's different from New York. No, because, you know, why, I can relax. You can relax. I can't relax in New York. I can be relaxed in Miami. me. So me being here and they accepting us

and me just following your career and just following what you you guys did in the platform. We want to salute you. We want to let you know that not just Miami but hip hop loves you. And hip hop respects you. Thank you. Thank you. So always honor you. And if they ain't honoring you nowhere else, there's drink champs will be the place that we honor you every single fucking moment, correct? Okay.

Can I say one thing? Because that's what we got to continue to do. We got to continue to support our legends. I'm going to say one thing. My bad. I was going there. Yeah, you were going to.

I was going to. I was speaking of you up. I had to. I had to say, you know what? You remember I told you all curve back? I curbed you a couple of times. I'm the curve yonde, queen master of all curves.

Yonde. That's me. You know what I mean. Yeah, yeah. Yes, yeah. So when I say that because, you know, you don't understand this whole, this gossip. You know, I'm not a gossip thing, but the thing about it.

But the thing about it is, the reason I came to this and is out of respect because you are a legend. I do respect you. And, you know, you remember, you came to, I was recording at a studio, Circle House a couple years ago. We shoot a video, I came out of the video. I don't jump in nobody video. That's out of respect.

It's for somebody that always has been respected and always showed me respect. That's the thing in the game that people don't understand like it's a respect thing. And respect goes a long way. You know what I mean? And that's just one of things that I just came today because I did this because of that.

It wasn't for that I wouldn't have done it. No, and that's the thing about me. The thing about me is that's all I'm about. All I'm about is just like, you know, I always have fun. And the thing about me is, you know, I'm dyslexic. I was in the resource room. It was in special education. People told me I was literally stupid.

And that's what I was. Oh, that. I don't care. Who laughing now? Who's laughing now? So I said, oh, shit. And for me to get money off words, the exact thing they said, I'm not good at.

I always looked at it like I was playing with house money. So I always looked at it like, I'm up, even if I'm down. That's right. Maybe you paid $2 for my record. I can't even use words. So, you know, I always looked at it like that, and I always look. And now there's certain people who is book smart. And there's certain people who is great with literature and words like that.

But I, because when you dislexit, it doesn't mean you're stupid. It just means you have to learn different. Exactly. So I learned different. And what I wanted to do was I said, damn, when me and my partner I got together, I said, you know what? There ain't no hip hop show who big up hip hop.

Let's big up hip hop. And let's big up and let's big up our legends. There's so many people that they would get down, the people want to tear them down and do, nah, fuck all that. Let's figure them. Let's big them up. Let's say that. Let's have fun with them as well.

And let's have fun with them, especially if they drink it. Let's have fun with them. So that's the reason why we ain't say, name it, like, 90s hip-hop show or, you know, legend hip-hop show. We want to, nah, nah. It's called it drink champ, so it throws people off. But this is what we're going to, the people who paved the way, the people who've earned their stripes. So, you know, we're going to big up everybody and all the new artists. But for now, you know, the new artists have a platform.

Yes. Let's, one day I heard Fat Joe talk about, like, yo, he wants to know where, you know, Or the older artists, he could hear their music at or he could hear something they're doing that. Besides the traditional radio stations. And fuck it. We don't have to do that. Or maybe we do. But we're going to big up our fucking artists while they're fucking alive.

And we're going to continue to do this. And we thank you so much, Trina. Thank you guys. For coming in here. You know, she took shots. We were usually being pressuring people to do shots. Really? And I'm in.

No, she was in. I respected you. Thank you. You came through. And, yo, listen, on behalf of hip hop, on behalf of, you know, Miami as a, what is it, what am I called? Honorary. Yeah, you definitely honor. In Miami, and Miami?

Yeah, you're a honorary. As a person that just loves hip hop, we want to honor you. We want to say thank you for your continued years of success. Your continued years are grinding. And then people in this game, you know, sometimes you could lose and people would just go away. And then we would miss them so much because hip hop, we got to continue. These people are out there 60, 70, 80 years old and rock and roll and then jazz and all that. And they respect them.

Why we can't have that for here? Who cares if Jay-Z is 94 years old and he dropped the joint? You know, that's my brother. I don't mean, I ain't mean it like that. Come on, chill. I'm scared. This nigger guy, every number I ever had. This nigga called me what you just said.

I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm holding it like that. He didn't need it like that. Because he got the FBI. He's following me somewhere. But it's my nigga, I love him. But you know what I'm saying? Like, why are we ageless in hip-hop?

Like, in hip-hop, they'll say like, yo, you know, this guy hit a certain plateau. So, you know, why is that possible? Like, when in rock and roll and all these other genres of music, people continue to make music and they continue to sell out shows. Why do we have to be limited? I don't know. I know it's a funny thing that always happens to hip hop once you get more, like once you

done so many records and it's always new people, they always think, oh, well, you should stop doing music or you should do to somebody else. I don't need to understand that because that doesn't mean you don't love Janet Jackson. That doesn't mean you don't love all these people that's out before you because I do. I mean, Mary J. Blige is on the road right now, killing it. Dancing, Pop, Lock, and dropping it. I can't wait to the show come to Miami. I'm there.

like ready. Like, who's going to say Mary J. Blige can't put out an album, put out a record, get on tour? Do you see Beyonce and Kendrick Tool? Let's talk about you. Let me say, let me say. We're not going to talk about Beyonce. Like, Beyonce is all the way until eternity, B.C., after BC, whatever, it's going to come

before. See this before? I'm just going to say I'm like the Beyonce stand of all stands, of stands, of stands, of stands. I'm at the show like, like, like, no makeup on, like, in my untrina gear, like, to, like, do all the routines. So we're on that kind of way when he's like, Beyonce. It's a timeless thing. Like, she's the person that has paved the way

and set the standard so high for women to be, like, the determined force of dependent and, like, never giving up, no matter. People, like, if you talk about Beyonce, like, you're a pointless, lifeless waste of a social security number. That's my thing. Period. That's how I feel.

Like, I'm in control of the, I'm just saying. You're a waste of a social security number if you talk about Beyonce. She's paid the way for women to be so fearless and so, like, high and just so amazing and with so much dignity and so effortless and just grace and I mean it's a beautiful thing you know what I mean that's why I would love to see

women in hip hop be that way you know because people in hip hop that we loved that's before us like everybody loves Queen Latif everybody loves MCC like everybody loves Missy Elliott everybody loves these people so who would say if Missy put out an album a record I don't want to hear that who's going to say she shouldn't put it out like what are you talking

about this is a person that's an innovator like a creator like a person that's change the game of music, hip-hop, everything. It's going to be totally, like, something to be reckoned with. You understand what I'm saying? So you want to see that always, no matter who comes out next after that, you still want to see that. It doesn't mean because somebody new here, I don't care,

I don't want to see Missy. Like, this is a person that's just on the Super Bowl. Like, how do you not want to see that? You know what I mean? It's hip-hop. It's just a culture. It's just music. It's evolutionary.

You cannot change. You cannot take it away, no matter how you try, you know? And it is what it is. And Beyonce dropped lemonade. It was a real nigger. Sprite, tea, half and half, I'm a pawner, on a palm or whatever.

It's just, uh... I'm gonna just tell you, as a man, when she dropped lemonade, it was a real nigga reunion. We just, you're like, yo, niggas got to get out shit together. You got to get it together. Yeah, she helps you get it together.

But it makes women also be, like, more secure and more, like, comforting and more. And just be more, like, on your shit and, like, just want to have it together. And it's not really about a man. It's about yourself. You got to understand. It's self-first.

Because even with a man, you can't do nothing with that. you're not right within yourself. You're going to mess that whole situation up if you're not right. It got to be you first. Everything else got to follow, period. Damn me. Period.

I can't even ask you from nothing else. She killed this. She killed this. I ain't going to lie. She's going to make all girls going to come here now. Thank you for doing that first. Yeah, because, yeah, I ain't going to lie. You know, that's our questions.

We asked all the guys. Like, you know, you eat ass. And so, you know, some girls, why he looked at our fear and said, holy shit. Well, it's a very intimidating when you got like a guy showing his guys and you want to bring this one girl and all you guys are like hovering around like ready to attack. Because my cousin came to eat out of her.

Listen, he came because Emerald's case. He said, yo, Emerald, I can do this smell your chair. Because he doesn't speak English that good. It doesn't speak English that good. So see, when you have a woman that comes, you have to be a very strong woman. A very secure, confident woman to come and be in a way to stand in front of all these guys

and be thinking they're going to attack. No, no, nobody's in tact. You know what I mean? But that's the perspective and the perception of it. So you have to understand that women are a little bit more. Yeah, I want to be a dog show. You got to be a beast to handle you guys. Yes, yes.

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