Search - Trick Daddy :: Thugs Are Us

Trick Daddy
Thugs Are Us
Genres: Pop, Rap & Hip-Hop

Track Listings (18) - Disc #1
1. Intro [Explicit Album Version] - Trick Daddy,
2. I'm a Thug [Explicit Album Version] - Trick Daddy, Trick Daddy
3. Where U from [Explicit Album Version] - Trick Daddy, Duece Poppi
4. Noodle [Explicit Album Version] - Trick Daddy, Co
5. Take It Da House [Explicit Album Version] - Trick Daddy, Bobbit, C.
6. Thump in the Trunk [Explicit Album Version] - Trick Daddy,
7. Can't F**k Wit Me [Explicit Version] [Explicit - Trick Daddy, Funk Boogie
8. Survivin' the Drought [Explicit Album Version] - Trick Daddy, Duece Poppi
9. Pull Over Remix [Explicit Album Version] - Trick Daddy, Duece Poppi
10. Have My Cheese [Explicit Album Version] - Trick Daddy, J.V.
11. Bricks and Marijuana [Explicit Album Version] - Trick Daddy, Funk Boogie
12. N Word [Explicit Album Version] - Trick Daddy, Co.
13. 99 Problems [Explicit Album Version] - Trick Daddy, Co.
14. For All My Ladies [Explicit Album Version] - Trick Daddy, Funk Boogie
15. The The Hotness [Explicit Album Version] - Trick Daddy, Black Mob Group
16. Somebody Shoulda Told Ya [Explicit Album Version] - Trick Daddy, J-Roc
17. Amerika [Explicit Album Version] - Trick Daddy, Funk Boogie
18. Duece Poppi Snippet [Bonus Track] [*] - Trick Daddy, Poppi, Duece

CD Details

All Artists: Trick Daddy
Title: Thugs Are Us
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Atlantic / Wea
Release Date: 3/20/2001
Album Type: Explicit Lyrics
Genres: Pop, Rap & Hip-Hop
Styles: Gangsta & Hardcore, Southern Rap, Pop Rap
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPCs: 075678343223, 075678343261

Synopsis

Amazon.com

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

Similarly Requested CDs

	Jive Bunny & Master Mixers Jive Bunny Genres: Dance & Electronic, Pop Label: Atlantic Records
2

	Liberace The Best of Liberace Genres: Pop, Classical Label: Mca
2

	Various Artists Boyz N The Hood Genres: Special Interest, Pop, Rap & Hip-Hop, R&B, Soundtracks Label: Dreamworks
2

	Various Artists Trespass (Pa Version) Genres: Rap & Hip-Hop, R&B, Soundtracks Label: Warner Bros / Wea
2

	Santana Sacred Fire Genres: Pop, Rock, Classic Rock, Metal Label: London / Umgd
5

	Shaquille O'Neal Shaq-Fu: Da Return Genres: Pop, Rap & Hip-Hop, R&B Label: Jive
5

	Various Artists Pure Disco Genres: Dance & Electronic, Special Interest, Pop, R&B Label: Utv Records
19

	Scarface Untouchable Genres: Pop, Rap & Hip-Hop Label: Rap-a-Lot
2

	Ice Cube, Hidden Faces The Players Club: Music From And Inspired By The Motion Picture Genres: Special Interest, Pop, Rap & Hip-Hop, Soundtracks Label: A&M
3

	Various Artists Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me: More Music From The Motion Picture Genres: Special Interest, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks, Classic Rock Label: Maverick
9

CD Reviews

The Real Deal on this Album

stankman | KY | 03/29/2001

(3 out of 5 stars)

"I'm a huge trick daddy fan, and his last album Book of Thugs is in my opinion one of the top 10 down south rap albums of all time. This album should be called TRICk DADDY PRESENTS THE SNS EXPRESS. It is just like a compilation, but they use trick daddy's name solely on the cover to get the sales. Songs 4,8,10,11,13-16, and 18 do not even have Trick Daddy on them. That leaves 7 songs with Trick on em, and Americka was already on his last album and he only sings the hook on the pull over remix. So out of those five I would say Cant F Wit the South is good, and Take it to Da House and I am A Thug are great.You get 5 truly trick Daddy songs for your money so you decide. peace mane."

Trick Daddy or Slip N Slide Compilation album

D. Johnson | Rockford, IL United States | 08/28/2001

(3 out of 5 stars)

"Thugs are Us only featured Trick Daddy on half of the tracks. That's fine, but why call it a Trick Daddy CD when its really a group effort? Anyways-aside from that the album is just okay. "Im a Thug", "Can't **** with the South", and "Pull Over (remix)" are all hot tracks..but the majority of the CD is just mediocre. Im not a Trick Daddy hater. In fact-I think www.thug.com is a brilliant album. This album just doesnt have the magic of previous Trick Daddy albums. But the album has already gone platinum so I guess im in the minority. Overall-If you like this album-thats cool, just make sure to pick up www.thug.com as well."

BASICALLY A SLIP AND SLIDE COMPILATION

KaPPaSTyLe4.uno.uno | RICHMOND, VIRGINIA United States | 04/10/2001

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Trick daddy dollars brings the hotness on this joint. But by the end of the cd you cant help but realize Trick took a back seat to his crew....its all good though cause most of them are dope in their own way.. i was just a little disappointed with the lack of trick daddy vocals.. his last 3 albums have been consistent...the production on this joint is hot.....overall i think its about a 4 1/2....add a little more of the MIA's main man and youd have a five........overall dope...best cut-Im a thug and pull over remix.....cop all of tricks albums..."

Inconsistent, but I do understand why

stevey wundar | Houston | 06/11/2006

(3 out of 5 stars)

"Trick Daddy stepped onto the scene (well, mainstream anyway) in 1999 with the hit single "Nann N*gga."

It was a hot party song and continues to be but unfortunately I believe Trick got type-caste so to speak and never did really find a way to break out of that b/c some folks only want to hear his hype party music.

Problem is, Trick, like several other hip hop artists really does have more to offer than just more hype, party music.

I'd say this LP pretty much caught Trick trying to please both worlds.

"Take It 2 Da House" was a hit party single that falls in line with 1999's "Nann N*gga" and 2000's "Shut Up."

Trick can be counted on to always give us a hit summer anthem type song which he does on this album with "Take It 2 Da House" and "I'm a Thug" (incidentally, this single also had an entertaining video with Elise Neal).

You also had Trick tryin' 2 come at us with some real gangsta, G'ed Up, though refreshing hood songs like "Amerika" which is basically breaking things down to the masses about the viewpoint of someone coming from the bottom of society and what kind of image he developed about a country like the U.S.

I've read countless articles and heard interviews where Trick talks about fighting with his label because while he loves doing the party stuff, he said he wasn't being allowed to grow as an artist and put more into his music beyond club, bootyshake anthems.

This album is inconsistent because of this kind of inner struggle so I'd say if you buy this album expecting non-stop dance tracks, you gon' be disappointed.

Yet if you like some of Trick's more deep, introspective tracks but start looking at contradictions, you'll also probably struggle with this CD.

The solution? Buy his earlier stuff from 1999 and 2000 for party music and buy all his stuff post-2001 for more introspective material.

I'm not positive that any Trick albums are masterpieces, but I hope this helps you find exactly what you lookin' 4 if you want a Trick Daddy LP."

IT'S AN OK RAP CD

MICHAEL TAYLOR | RICHMOND, VA USA | 06/02/2004

(3 out of 5 stars)

"AGAIN, THIS IS JUST AN AVERAGE CD. BUT, THAT DOESN'T STOP IT FROM HAVING SOME GOOD TRACKS ON IT. THE BEST SONGS ARE ''I'M A THUG'', ''N WORD'', ''SOMEBODY SHOULDA TOLD YA'', AND ''WHERE U FROM''. NOT THE GREATEST TRICK DADDY CD, BUT IT'S WORTH A LISTEN."