Da Baddest Bitch is the debut studio album by American rapperTrina. It was released on March 21, 2000, throughAtlantic Records andSlip-n-Slide Records. Chiefly produced by Righteous Funk Boogie, the album debuted at number thirty-three on the USBillboard 200 and number eleven on theTop R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, and entered the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Catalog Albums in 2002.[1]
The album was preceded by the lead single "the title track" on December 22, 1999. The single failed to chart on any chart but theHot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, on which it reached number sixty-four.[2]
The second and final single from the album, "Pull Over", was released on February 13, 2000, and reached number ninety-three on the Hot 100, number forty-six on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart and number forty-one on the Rap Songs chart.[2][3]
Craig Seymour ofEntertainment Weekly reviewed the album saying, "As nasty asLil' Kim used to be, Trina boldly positions herself as the new queen of randy hip-hop tales in which sex is a contact sport played by rival genders. Spare Miami-bass beats provide the apt low end for her below-the-belt rhymes onDa Baddest Bitch. And a song about the pain of loving a violent, cash-obsessed thug shows that she's as skilled at speaking truths as she is at hawking fantasies."[10]Rhapsody wrote about the album: "On her debut album she spits plenty of rah-rah about getting over on the fellas, but she does it exceptionally well. Hot flows and no-holds-barred rhymes make this some high-quality, dirty-ass freak rap."[11]
Billboard says, "Rap divadom has a new challenger. Trina makes her solo debut with the single, "Da Baddest Bitch," off the album of the same name. The 21-year-old rapper, who made her debut onTrick Daddy's party anthem "Nann," proudly carries the torch lit by female MCs like Lil' Kim andFoxy Brown before her, as an artist not afraid to use her feminine wiles to get what she wants. The Miami bass-influenced track, produced by the Black Mob, has Trina making some serious demands on her men in a slow and steady Florida flow. The hook borrows liberally fromMichael Jackson's classic "Bad," as it asks, "Who's bad?" Trina shows that female MCs can boast just like the big boys of rap."[12]
Da Baddest Bitch debuted at number 33 on the USBillboard 200 and number 11 on theTop R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. In November 2000, it was certified gold by theRecording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for shipments figures in excess of 500,000 copies in the United States.[13] The album would stay on theBillboard 200 chart for 29 weeks and on the Top Hip-Hop/R&B chart for 49 consecutive weeks in the United States.[14] By June 2007,Da Baddest Bitch had sold 683,000 units in the US.[15]
