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How Miami rap made overindulgence the new baseline

Denzel Curry, City Girls, 2 Live Crew and Trina. Collage by Jackie Lay / NPR. Sipa USA via AP / Bennett Raglin / Michael Ochs Archives / Erika Goldring/Getty Images / AP hide caption

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Hip-Hop 50: All Rap Is Local

How Miami rap made overindulgence the new baseline

The 305's hedonistic reputation is not unearned, but there is artistry in its debauchery, and a young generation reinvesting the rewards of their predecessors' battles against censorship.

Latto on Trina's influence, industry bullying and her lyrical evolution

Atlanta rapper Latto belongs to a lineage of women inspired by Miami icon Trina, whose sexually explicit bars have both challenged gendered double standards and shown their staying power. Breyona Holt/Courtesy of the artist hide caption

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Louder Than A Riot: Season 2

Latto on Trina's influence, industry bullying and her lyrical evolution

Like her idol Trina two decades earlier, Latto saw her creativity open up when she started rapping explicitly about sex. But with her frankness came harsh new standards to live up to.

It ain't trickin' if you got it: Trina, Trick Daddy and Latto

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Louder Than A Riot

It ain't trickin' if you got it: Trina, Trick Daddy and Latto

How did the "bad bitch" replace the "ride or die chick" in hip-hop? In this episode we talk to the original baddest herself, Trina, about how her career flipped the script on dusty old stereotypes of Black women in rap, and left men down bad. We also sit down with Trick Daddy, the man that put her on, to hear how he feels to see her shining; and check in with Latto, a rapper carrying the torch that Trina set aflame 25 years ago.

It ain't trickin' if you got it: Trina, Trick Daddy and Latto

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