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Do you keep a scrap book or keep any of your press
clippings from when you were in magazines and stuff?
Trina- Actually
I do. I get a lot of magazines. I try to get all the
things from newspaper articles to magazines, anything
that comes out about me and I'm aware of it. My mom
keeps it. She likes to keep everything. I have dozens
of interviews and pictures and stuff like that. I've
kinda accumulated a lot of stuff.
Do you ever get a chance to read any of your fan
mail?
Trina-Yes, actually
my assistant stays on the computer. We're flying on
a plane and she's always punching in on that computer
and I'm able to read what they say and I have a lot
of fans who send e-mail and actual personal mail. I
do get a chance to read and see what the fans are looking
for an expecting.
How did you get involved with the movie A Miami
Tail?
Trina-A Miami
Tail actually kind of fell into my hands. I
met the producer Mel. He was actually in Miami and he
approached me about the film. I got the script. I read
over it. My manager actually read it first and thought
it was a great idea. Once I got a chance to read it
I thought it was cool. I thought it was different. It
was was really me but almost like I was somebody else
as well because I was trying to be extra strong and
prevent the violence and get the gangs to make amends
and be cool even if you don't like each other you don't
have to fight about it. "You stay your way, they
stay their way," and it was almost like getting
the girls to go on a strike until the guys stop fighting.
So it was just me being the control boss, something
that I do anyway. It was really, really exciting. I
had a lot of fun doing the movie. It was a different
experience for me. It opened up a lot as far as the
whole acting field is concerned so therefore once I
get involved with it and I'm ready to tackle the big
screen I will be more familiar with what is going on.
So do you think you will want to do more films?
Trina-Yeah, I have
been getting some scripts. So once I finish my promo
tour I am going to sit down and go over a few and see
which ones I would want to get involved with.
Is the album still titled The Glamourest Life?
Trina-Yes, it is
the Glamourest Life. It will be out October 4th.
Do you have any featured artists outside of Little
Wayne on the Album?
Trina-I have Lil
Wayne on the first single. I have Lil Mo on the album,
Lil Scrappy is on the album, I have Young Buck, he's
on the album. I have Snoop Dogg on the album. I have
Kelly Rowland from Destiny's Child on the album. I have
a great album, great features. I'm excited. I'm 100%
confident with the project. I have some great producers.
I worked with Kanye West. Jazze Pha, Mannie Fresh, Cool
& Dre out of Miami, also worked with Needlz, he produced
a record, Usual Suspects they do a lot of work with
Trick.
These questions are basically I was trying to find
out some answers from stuff I had read and I said, "I
am going to talk to Trina and get the truth." Are
you starting a clothing line?
Trina-Actually,
I have been working on it for about 2 years around.
It's really a lot of work involved with that you have
to be 100% hands on with everything as far as the designing
and picking fabrics to different layouts. So it's a
lot of work. Hopefully by the summer of next year I
will have the Diamonds and Denim line, which will be
the casual line--the jeans, the tank tops, the more
casual line put out first and then I will look into
the more high fashion glamour. But definitely I'm working
on it. Definitly it will be out next summer. My perfume
will be out two weeks from now.
What is the name of the perfume?
Trina-Diamond Princess
by Trina.
What inspired you to create a perfume line.
Trina-I love perfume.
I love to smell good. I have a bad perfume fetish. Just
to be able to have my own perfume to be able to create
that I thought would be a beautiful think. I got a chance
to meet with the manufacturers and went to smell thousands
of bottles of fragrances and I got to pick out which
one I loved the best. From there it took a year to put
everything together from the time I actually started
until now and it's actually about to be out. I'm excited.
Are you starting a modeling agency?
Trina-Yes, I am
working with a modeling agency right now. I get a lot
of people who come up to me and they want to get into
the industry and they have no direction of what they
want to do where they want to go and where to get their
foot in the door and everybody doesn't want to do videos
so I'm trying to branch out and get involved with acting,
commercials, print, runway. If you don't want to do
videos do whatever you like and give people the open
door to be welcome because I am an artist it's a lot
easier for me to get things done. That is something
I thought would be fun. I'm excited about.
I'm a big hair fan. Do you have the same hair stylist
you have been working with for awhile?
Trina-Yes. I have
a hair stylist I work with his name is Terrance Davidson,
I have worked with him five or six years. I work with
the same person. He knows what I like what I don't like
what's good for my hair besides if I'm not wearing hair
weave or whatever he knows how to keep up the appearance
of my natural hair and you know just different styles
and he knows how far I will go.
I just saw a photo clip from your video and I like the
way your hair looks. I like this hair color but do you
have a particular hair color that you like the best?
Trina- I think
I like the color I have now the best. It's light, it's
very soft and very glowy and it makes me glow I think
I will stay with it for awhile.
You've been in the rap industry for awhile. My question
is how do you think you have managed to not get involved
in any significant beef with other rappers? You seem
like such a cool person?
Trina- I
think that is so childish. I think it's very much juvenile.
I'm very much an adult. This is a business. You are
not really here to befriend people. It's a career. You
are here to establish yourself and at the end of the
day to make money. Just to get along with people. I'm
very humble and cool with everybody. I don't really
have a complex, I'm very confident with myself so that
gives me a lot of leeway to give props to everybody
else in the industry. Females mostly have ego problems.
I think that is one of the biggest downfalls with women
in hip-hop they can't get along because everybody wants
to be on top and I think everybody is on top in there
own area and I it's just about making good music. If
we all get together and do records together we can build
a stronger firmness and we can be as big as males in
hip-hop. I think that's my whole thing. I don't really
cater to it. I don't really like the whole negativity.
I like to be around people who are positive and fun.
I like to party have fun and do fun things. I don't
want to sit around with my face frowned up when I am
so fortunate and so blessed. I love my life I love whats
happening in my life and I want to be happy so basically
that's how I get along with everybody else. I speak
to everybody and I give them props. I have a certain
love I feel for people in the industry that I meet especially
women. You know I just keep it moving and that way I
've never had a problem with anyone in this game for
six years and I pray It continues to be that way. It's
so unnessccary at the end of the day.
I know you are doing well and you sound like you are
doing great but people on the Internet have all this
stuff. But will you once and for all squash that stuff
about Trina's broke and losing her house and all that
stuff.
Trina- Well
you know what? Well one thing about being in the public
eye or being an artist is that everytime something is
said whether it's true or false it's everywhere. Everybody
tackles it everybody has a question. Everybody wants
to know. For myself really, I hear a thousand different
things with that situation. I really don't know what
started it or why or whatever the case might be. I never
got involved or cared because for the most part I knew
it wasn't true, and it was just, "Whatever who
cares." But I was in a situation or a relationship
and it dissolved and we went our separate ways. I was
living there. I have owned this house for 5 years or
maybe a little longer. I decided to sell it and move
on and get something bigger. I had had it awhile. I
had actually extended it to make it bigger. I decided
to sell it. You are always working and always wanting
more things so for myself I decided I needed something
bigger more room more space to be in. That's exactly
what happened I sold it and moved into something bigger
moved on with my life and that was the end of it. I'm
constantly out and I'm constantly out I'm constantly
about on vacations and shopping, you can't do those
things without money. So for me I'm always working and
making money and I'm always doing a lot of investments
so I'm pretty well off I'm pretty good.
I know. You sound like you are working all the time
what do you like to do when you aren't working?
Trina-I like
to be with my family be with my mom sister my neice
nephew, brother, friends, go on vacation go to the islands.
Some of my family is from the Bahamas so we go there
a lot I ve been all over--Hawaii, St, Tropex, Anguilla,
that's relaxing to me away from the entertainment industry
world hair stylists and make up, just being free to
just do nothing. I like to take vacations and relax.
My last question is about rapping. I cant rap at all.
So I'm just curious was it a natural gift or something
you had to work at.
Trina-I think
its almost like a natural gift. At first it was something
I didn't know how to do. I knew how to perceive rhymes
and how to write stories and how to get my thoughts
together on pen and paper to know what I want to say
but its almost something that has to be inside of you.
It's not easy. Anybody can freestyle it. There are a
thousand people around the world that can freestyle
but when you are in that studio it's your voice over
music it's gotta come out right and everybody can't
do it. For me I think it was something that came a little
natural for me. I worked to perfect it but for me I
think it was a natural gift that was for me to be able
to express myself and put it with the music and get
on beat. For me for the most part I think it was me
I think it was naturally inside of me in a different
form and I'm thankful for that.
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Interview copyright Dorrie Williams-Wheeler, thabiz.com
July 2005
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