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Review: Jack Foley
TRICK Daddy is the self-proclaimed bad-boy of Miami, a hip-hop
heavyweight who emerged from the wrong side of the tracks to achieve
worldwide superstardom.
Needless to say, his albums reflect his tough upbringing and
are as profanity-laden as you might expect from this sort of genre.
As Trick Daddy, aka Maurice Young, states himself: "I come
from a big family. My daddy is a real street n****. My momma is
from Carolina, so she growed up in the struggle.
"My momma got 11 children from 10 different men and my daddy
got 16 sons from all kinds of women."
As one of 27 children, Trick Daddy has witnessed some trying
times and received more ass whippings than lectures during his
formative years.
As a result, he rebelled before finding his way and new meaning
to life in music, subsequently imparting self-taught life lessons
through his uncompromising rhymes.
It's the age-old tale of triumph over unlikely odds and that
ring of familiarity runs rife throughout Trick Daddy's sixth solo
album, Thug Matrimony: Married to the Streets.
It's not so much a bad album, just a little too generic for this
sort of thing and gets off on the wrong foot with the fuck-laden
overload that represents Fuckin' Around.
Once the album eases off the bad-boy attitude and injects some
feel-good rhythms, it actually works a great deal better.
Hence, tracks such as I Wanna Sang, with its chirpy
Jackson Five style children's vocals, and wise guidance lyrics
from Trick Daddy to a youth, fill the album with a much more enjoyable
feel than the hard-hitting, unrelenting likes of heavy hip-hop
anthems Gangsta' Livin' and J.O.D.D. (featuring
Khia and Tampa Tony).
Likewise, The Children's Song, which features a chorus
of 'children hold on to your dreams', feels a darn sight better
than the cock-sucking sentiment of Ménage A Trios.
Indeed, the album represents a curious mix of sentiment and bad-boy
attitude that doesn't always sit comfortably together.
When it's good, it's really worth listening to, but when it's
bad, it's just another rapper imparting their wisdom to the world
much in the same way as Eminem, D12 and others of that ilk.
Trick Daddy fans will no doubt lap it up and help the album on
to achieve gold or platinum status, but whether it reaches out
to new listeners is highly doubtful.
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