Glamorest Life

• Artist: Trina
• Rating:
• Release Date: October 04, 2005
• Type: Contains explicit content
• Genre: Rap

Review

Trina's righteous raunchiness is more than a little exhausted on Glamorest Life, the Miami MC's third album. She seems to know it too, sounding distanced and not nearly as energized as she was on 2002's Diamond Princess. That puts more weight on the productions and guest verses. Despite contributions from names like Mannie Fresh, Jazze Pha, Needlz, and rising duo Cool & Dre, the productions are routinely just as lacking. Take Mannie's "Da Club," in which he more or less jacks the misty-eyed backing for Faith Evans' "Hope." Mannie also pitches in with a wistful reminiscence about a stripper, while Trina helps relate the tale and remains, as always, the one calling the shots: "He wanna cram it and jam it/Put the pickle in the middle, motherf*cker, not fanny." Ironically, one of the better tracks -- roughly the umpteenth track to interpolate Force M.D.'s' "Tender Love" -- takes on a sullen tone, even though Trina's more defiant here than at any other point in the album: "I shed so many tears, can't believe how many years the baddest bitch put up with your dusty ass." Lil Wayne, Lil Scrappy, Snoop Dogg, and Trey Songz provide vocal support, but very little of it raises the material's quality level. ~ Andy Kellman, All Music Guide

Tracks

Track Title	Composers	Performers	Time
Sum Mo (Lyrics)		Dré, Trina	(3:36)
Don't Trip	D.P. "Dad" Carter	Trina, Lil Wayne	(3:29)
Shake (Lyrics)		Dré, Trina	(4:06)
Here We Go (Lyrics)	James Scheffer, D.K. Baker, Teedra Moses	Trina, Kelly Rowland	(3:51)
Sexy Gurl		Snoop Dogg, Trina, Money Mark Diggla	(3:45)
Da Club (Lyrics)		Mannie Fresh, Trina	(3:51)
It's Your B-Day		Jazze Pha, Trina	(3:28)
I Gotta (Lyrics)	Rick Ross	Trina, Rick Ross	(3:09)
Throw It Back (Lyrics)		Trina, Deuce Poppi	(3:12)
50/50 Love (Lyrics)		Trina, Trey Songz	(3:01)
So Fresh (Lyrics)	N. Washington	Trina, Darren Plies	(4:01)
Reach Out	N. "Fury" Loftin	Trina	(3:42)
Lil Mama (Lyrics)		Dré, Trina	(4:12)

Credits

Big D (Producer), Jullian Andres Boothe (Marketing Consultant), Brian Gardner (Mastering), Anne Declemente (A&R), Katrina "Trina" Taylor (Executive Producer), Leslie Brathwaite (Mixing), Dré (Performer), Jim Jonsin (Producer), Bernie Grundman (Mastering), Robert "Big Briz" Brisbane (Engineer), Alan Lewis (Art Direction), Jazze Pha (Producer), Kram Iksirbo (Art Direction), Damon Eden (A&R), Krishna Das (Mixing), Alexander Martin (Art Direction), Ted Lucas (Executive Producer), Mannie Fresh (Producer), Musa "Milk" Adeoye (A&R), Veronica Alvericci (Marketing Consultant), Byron Trice (Art Direction), Fabian Marasciullo (Mixing), Christian Lantry (Photography), Ray Seay (Mixing), Kram Iksirbo (Design), Aaron Bay Schuck (Artist Coordination), Alexander Allen (Stylist), Solomon "Sox" Hepburn (Executive Producer), Mike Caren (Producer), Andrew Zaeh (Photo Production), Fernando Watson (Marketing Consultant), Dave Junco (Engineer), Nick Fury (Producer), Mike Caren (A&R), Robert Alexander (Art Direction), P. Magnet (Vocals), Josh "Redd" Burke (A&R), KLC (Producer), Money Mark Diggla (Producer), Big D (Piano)

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