Trick Daddy: Thug Life
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Now that R&B singers are using it to define themselves, it’s pretty safe to assume the word “thug” has lost its original meaning. In 1997, roughly a year after Tupac Shakur passed away, Trick Daddy Dollars placed his image on a food stamp and took it upon himself to try and cater to an audience clamoring for a representation of thug life. The digital era may have ushered in the EBT card in place of the food stamp, and he’s dropped the “dollars” from the end of his name, but Trick Daddy still holds himself responsible for representing the thugs of the world.
After over a decade at the house he helped build, Trick is about to introduce a new generation of Miami artists to the game via his Dunk Ryders label. The true definition of a thug remains as hard to define as it was when Tupac shouted it out for everyone to hear. If it involves parenting, community outreach, mentoring newer artists and broadening your original goals while the money keeps coming in, then it’s hard to imagine ‘Pac would be mad.
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http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/features/id.1140
After over a decade at the house he helped build, Trick is about to introduce a new generation of Miami artists to the game via his Dunk Ryders label. The true definition of a thug remains as hard to define as it was when Tupac shouted it out for everyone to hear. If it involves parenting, community outreach, mentoring newer artists and broadening your original goals while the money keeps coming in, then it’s hard to imagine ‘Pac would be mad.
Read the article here...
http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/features/id.1140
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