Thug Matrimony: Married to the Streets
BeforePitbullorJacki-Ogot picked up on the rap radar, the challenge for Floridian MCs was to avoid sounding like a crunk cliché or a2 Live Crewderivative. Half the excitement of picking up a Trick Daddy disc is that you have no idea what to expect. Hyper-political numbers like "Amerika" or nonsensical party fluff like "Shut Up"? This eclecticism continues unabated as Trick goes allBad Brains, rocking out with the aid of anOzzy Osbournesample on mosh-friendly "Let's Go." Trick still "loves the kids" apparently, smartly re-tooling a timelessMC Lyte's "Self Destruction" verse and imploring the youth to aim high and stay dry on "These Are the Daze." On the other hand, when most of your discs carry the label "thug" in the title, there's only so much you can do to suppress your compulsion to talk trash; here, he even contrasts women with fruits.--Dalton Higgins