
We love to see it and we will forever celebrate one of the baddest to ever do it. They could do what they want to do,” she told the outlet. Because these young girls have taken something from me, some type of inspiration of small sort, and have taken that, and felt that. “You know what, it’s a beautiful feeling. In an interview this past summer with Rolling Stone, she said she’s inspired by the new age women in Hip Hop today.

It’s also visual proof that she seriously has not aged a day. Today, for the Queen’s birthday, we wanted to take a quick trip down memory lane to remind folks of how long Trina has been working. More than two decades later, she continues to inspire new waves of rap girls… Alexa, cue City Girls’ “Run Them Bands Up.” She positioned herself as “Da Baddest B*tch” and quickly became a favorite of the time. Securing a deal with Slip-N-Slide Records, Trina was introduced in the era of female rappers like Lil Kim and Foxy Brown. Rap star Trina's former Business Manager has clapped back after Trina claimed that he scammed her out of 300,000 that was supposed to go towards her album. Much like the young women who rep the city today, Trina was as raw as they come, putting on for hood girls who could hold their own and go bar for bar with the fellas.

She’d caught the attention of up-and-coming rapper Trick Daddy, who put a young Trina on his now-famous song “Nann N*gga” - and the rest is history. In the late ’90s Katrina Laverne Taylor, more affectionately known as just Trina, popped out on the Miami rap scene.
