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On the skit that opens his third album, Thugs Are Us, Liberty City's thug prince, Trick Daddy, converses with a youngster smoking on the street corner, who seems to have taken his music a little too seriously. "Don't be like me nigga, be yourself," he advises the corrupted minor. Cue "I'm a Thug," where an angelic chorus of streetwalkers sympathizes sweetly as the slurry MC drawls an affirmation of his ghetto identity. The remainder of the album features a predictable but engaging trunk of funk that soundtracks Trick Daddy's cartoonish pimp exploits. It runs from the James Brown-jacking "Take It to the House" to the 1980s New Wave swoosh of "Noodles" and the loved-up gangsta sounds of "N-Word." "Where You From" rotates with a robotic voice and a satisfactory thump, and features an appearance from Daddy's "little goil," Trina. And when she opens her mouth, out spill filthy rhymes galore. She returns on "For All My Ladies," a ghetto version of "Independent Woman" cut to a holler of "Get Money!!" But Trick blows the emancipation proclamation by preceding it with a version of Ice-T's "99 Problems," a list of all the tricky women in his little black book of rhymes. Times may change but Trick Daddy's doesn't. --Chris Campion

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Direct from the streets of Miami's Liberty City comes the return of His Royal Thugness, Trick Daddy, and his new nonfiction sonic opus, THUGS ARE US. Trick brings true thug philosophy to a fourth full-length album filled with all-new turbulent tales of Southern style street life. With his baggy jeans, gold teeth, and ghetto slang, the mercurial Trick breathes reality into no-holds-barred rhymes, relating the details of his dynamic and dramatic day-to-day on such tracks as the anthemic, cool jamming "I'm A Thug," the funky "N WORD," and the slow "Where U From' The Drought." At the same time, he brings his musical artistry to bear on such powerful, high energy "THUGS ARE US" tracks as the "Take It To Da House" party platter and the hyper-drive sex record, "For All My Ladies," featuring a special guest turn from the one-and-only Trina. Certified Platinum by the RIAA. (8/01), ISBN13: B00005A8MT ISBN10: B00005A8MT Material Type: audioCD