Thugs Are Us [Explicit Lyrics]

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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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Thugs Are Us [Explicit Lyrics]

Thugs Are Us [Explicit Lyrics]

Average customer rating:

Inconsistent, but I do understand why

trick daddy is the king of slip and slide records

coulda been better

IT'S AN OK RAP CD

What?

Thugs Are Us
Trick Daddy
Manufacturer: Atlantic / Wea
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Release Date: 2001-03-20

Tracks:

Intro
I'm A Thug
Where U From
Noodle
Take It To Da House
Thump In The Trunk (Skit)
Can't F**k With The South
Survivin' The Drought
Pull Over Remix
Have My Cheese
Bricks & Marijuana
N Word
99 Problems
For All My Ladies
The Hotness
Somebody Shoulda Told Ya
Amerika
Duece Poppi Snippet

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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

Customer Reviews:

Inconsistent, but I do understand why.......2006-06-12

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.

trick daddy is the king of slip and slide records.......2005-03-03

trick daddy is the king of slip and slide records ,so he got to be on any one list.Hits are 99 Problems ,Take It to da House and Can't F**k With the South. Its gets 5 out of 5.

coulda been better.......2004-07-20

trick daddy is a great artist. i love his southern drawl and his i don't give a.... attitude. his music has always been catchy, and that's why, to this day, i buy it. but "thugs r us" is definately at the bottom of the T double D list. songs like "i'm a thug", "where i'm from", "to all my ladies" were very catchy but the rest of the album was filled with too many no names and subpar beats. "the drought" was very dull, "n word" is repetively boring and "bricks and marijuana" sounded like a sean paul song. overall, i bought the cd based on the name, trick daddy, cuz he's one of my favorite rappers. but this is one of those albums killed by too many guests. anyway, i'll still keep buying the boy's albums cuz i know he can do better than this. slip n slide baby!

IT'S AN OK RAP CD.......2004-06-02

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.

What?.......2002-05-02

How can some of you say that this is a bad album? As soon as I turned this thing on I was jammin'. Trick is one of the best rappers out there. Don't disrespect him. Thugs Are Us is a good buy for anyone looking for some good beats and lyrics that flow right with them. I'm a Thug and Take it to Da House are good, but those aren't the only good songs on the album. Where U From, Bricks and Marijuana, 99 Problems, Amerika, and Pull Over Remix are just a few others that kept the album going good. Buy this if you see it!

Average customer rating:

Off da hook
Pretty Good

Thugs Are Us
Trick Daddy
Manufacturer: Atlantic / Wea
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Gangsta & Hardcore | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music

General | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music

Southern Rap | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music

Pop Rap | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music

Party Boys | Warner Brothers Records | Stores | Music
Similar Items:

Thug Matrimony: Married to the Streets
Book of Thugs: Chapter AK Verse 47
Book Of Thugs: Chapter AK Versus 47
Thug Holiday
Thugs Are Us

ASIN: B00005A8MW
Release Date: 2001-03-20

Tracks:

I'm A Thug
Where U From
Noodle
Take It To Da House
Can't F**k With The South
Survivin' The Drought
Pull Over Remix
Have My Cheese
Bricks & Marijuana
For All My Ladies
The Hotness
Somebody Shoulda Told Ya
Amerika
Duece Poppi Snippet - Duece Poppi

Customer Reviews:

Off da hook.......2001-06-09

This cd contain alot of violent words but it also has a PA sign on the front so parents will know that but for the kids who want it and like all the lyrics and content then this cd is one of the best cd's i own.I like this cd out all of trick daddy's other cd's(i.e Book of thugs).He has great rapping talent and its worth the price people are asking it for.

Pretty Good.......2001-03-30

Trick Daddy's , Thugs r Us is probably one of the best CD's I've heard in a while. Take It To Da House is a good song on the album. Some others one are good as well. If' you're a TDD fan, make sure you pick up the album.