Trina Honored Throughout BET Hip Hop Awards Weekend
Throughout one of the crucial vital weekends in rap tradition, Katrina “Trina” Taylor was honored by a slew of energy gamers in music for her trailblazing profession in hip-hop.
On the heels of this yr’s BET Hip Hop Awards ceremony, which passed off on the Cobb Power Performing Arts Centre in Atlanta on Saturday (Oct. 5), the producers behind the Energy 50 Black Music Moguls Brunch fêted the Miami native as this yr’s recipient for her presence and accomplishments as a feminine MC within the perpetually male-centric trade of rap.
Regardless of all her accolades and titles (every little thing from Billboard and BMI awards to being topped “probably the most constant feminine rapper of all time”), being dedicated to her authenticity in a enterprise the place success is simply too usually predicated on smoke and mirrors has been her biggest feat.
“Simply staying true to myself. I imagine it is a very male-dominated trade. I’ve finished a lot. I all the time simply attempt to take the highs with the lows. If there’s one thing I don’t really feel like I did my greatest at, I’ll preserve attempting at that. Relating to simply staying true to myself and what I imagine in and continuously rising, I’m all the time going to be doing that. I’m by no means going to alter that,” Trina shared with BET on the purple carpet simply exterior Simon’s Restaurant in Midtown ATL.
So far as her contributions in serving to pave the trail for the Cardi Bs and Megan The Stallions of the world in the present day, Trina had this to say: “It’s a stupendous factor. I can bear in mind once I was beginning out—once I began, there have been different folks earlier than me. There was Missy [Elliott]. There was Salt N Pepa. There have been all these people who impressed me. So once I hear the identical factor about me, it feels good.
“I hear it on a regular basis and in all the ladies in music. I hear it within the interviews. After I hear it and so they inform me, it’s like a reminder. It’s a refresher. Particularly when it’s a brand new artist and it’s my first album and older stuff that impressed them. It all the time brings me again to love, ‘Wow, these women had been youthful and so they had been paying consideration. And now they’re right here.’”
Together with Emma Jackson and Malita Rice, one of many key producers behind the Energy 50 Black Music Moguls Brunch, Niya Skyy thought it was essential to honor Trina in a second in hip-hop historical past the place the face and voice of rap is indisputably feminine.
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“I feel it is tremendous vital that we give folks their flowers whereas they’re nonetheless right here, once they can odor them, and really feel them,” Skyy defined to us over electronic mail. “Trina is actually an icon; it is due to her that the state of girls in hip-hop is so profitable proper now. She paved the best way for among the artists we love in the present day—the Metropolis Ladies and Megan The Stallions. I feel this was lengthy overdue, and we might inform it introduced her spirits up!”
The tribute comes just a bit over a month after information surfaced that the rapper’s mom misplaced her life to most cancers. Whereas accepting her award, a visibly emotional Trina gave because of her followers whereas remembering her mom and greatest buddy.
“I’m grateful, I’m humbled and I really feel so empty inside, however I’m standing earlier than you as a result of I additionally really feel so stuffed by everybody who got here out for me in the present day,” she mentioned. “I’m simply grateful. Thanks, guys.”
