Since I'm bored and don't have much else to talk about, and since people already know how good his new album is, I'm gonna talk about the first album I heard by Trick Daddy, his 3rd album Book of Thugs: Chapter AK, Verse 47. Back in 2000 my brother was working at a record store and came across a promo copy and gave it to me because he knew how much I loved "Shut Up". If you look on the left side of the cover, running vertically from down to up it says "Thug Diary...next", but he never did use that title. A couple years ago I reccomended this album to Ethan, I think a while later he got it and said it wasn't as good as Thug Holiday, but I still haven't heard that one.

Intro (Marvin Dixon)
{little boy singing the chorus from Nann Nigga}
"oh hold up oh hold up, what's all that noise you in here makin' 'n' stuff, boy, tearin' up my house and everything, you need to do your schoolwork, boy, what you wanna be when you grow up anyway?"
"a thug!"
"you wanna be a thug? boy lookee here, thug boy lookee here, boy, last thug I knew of was in back in the days of nineteen ninety-nine, a boy named Trick Daddy, boy, that was a thug, ya hear me? cause I seen that boy snatch a pocket book, run down the street, get hit by a bus, hit by a car, skinned his leg up, hit two buildings, goin' bom bom, I couldn't say nothin but boy, go on wit yo bad self...now boy just sit down cause yo uncle Marvin gon' tell you bout how a thug's supposed to be, now listen here boy"

"Boy" f/ The Lost Tribe and JV
The outro chorus you only hear at the very end as it's fading out ("don't fuck around and let 'em getcha boy, cause if you do I'm goin' all out witcha boy") is better than the actual chorus.

"Sittin' On D's" f/ Izm
One of my favorite spoken intros of any song ever, said by Izm: "understand this, it's twelve months in the year, six months to mind ya bidness, six months to stay the fuck outta mines, and hopefully it's a leap year, so you can take that one extra day, and think about all the dickhead shit that you did this year"

"America" f/ Society
The first of what would be many T double D children singing tracks, with that video with all the kids in front of the American flag. This song was on Thugs'R'Us too, except it was spelled "Amerika", I can't remember which album they made the video for. Trick does this amazing thing in the first verse where he stretches out the word "stubborn" until it rhymes with "the other hand".

"Shut Up" f/ Trina, Co and Deuce Poppito
"We gon' let the band deal with this", monster jam, my 20th favorite single of the past 5 years, best farting synth brass riff ever. I think at that point I had heard "Nann Nigga" but I didn't know who it was by or what it was called until like a year ago, so this was effectively my introduction to Trick and I think Trina too (or wait, was "Baddest Chick" before or after this?). Chorus that got referenced by Bleek on "Is that your chick?" and about 800 other songs in '00.

Hoe Skit
Dialing, ringing, then the outgoing message on Trick's answering machine, and Trina leaving the message: "Trick, you fuckin' up with a bitch like me, nigga what you think, you just gonna keep fuckin' for free, you gonna have to find you some more pussy for that bullshit, nigga you need to get on your motherfuckin' job" and then a song about hoes.

"Tryin' To Stop Smokin'" f/ Mystikal
"This time I had to get PHYSICAL!/so I went and got that nigga MYSTIKAL!", flipping "Going Back To Cali" for the chorus "tryin' to stop smokin', smokin', smokin', tryin' to stop smokin', naw, I don't think so"

"Could It Be" f/ Twista
It seems like Twista doesn't get as much respect from heads since he went platinum on a bunch of smooth R&B hits, but that really shouldn't be because it's not like he switched his style up, he pretty clearly has always loved spitting over smooth R&B beats and he sounds great on them. Sad pretty melody with both of them singing softly on the hook, Trick: "could it be that I'm lost, gettin' soft or just fallin in love?", Twista: "am I fallin' in love, oh no"

"Thug Life Again" f/ Money Mark of Tre+6
Best beat on the album, but the whole album's full of great beats, not simple generic bounce or bass, but busy and intricate and fullof pinging keyboards, all by people who I don't know if they've done anything else besides other Slip N Side albums, this one by Darren "DJ Spin" Rudnick and some of the other ones are: Righteous Funk Boogie, The Committee, Black Mob Group.

"Kill Your Ass"
No wait, this is the best beat on the album. Holy shit, I can't even describe how good the beats on this album are. Slip'n'Slide must have the best anonymous clockpunchers of any label ever.

"Gotta Let You Have It" f/ Buddy Roe
Buddy Roe's verse on this is like, he's not even biting Pac, it sounds like he's just doing a straight out Pac impression.

"Hoe But Can't Help It" f/ Buddy Roe
It's like a meditation on self-determination. Does she mean to be a hoe, or is it just in her blood, something she can't help? Buddy's verse is disrespectful of hoes, but Trick comes off a little more sympathetic to the plight of the hoe. This sounds like such a hit song, if you could get away with saying "hoe" on the radio it probably would've been. This song was on Trick's first album Based On A True Story too, so maybe it was an underground hit so they re-recorded it, I dunno.