Trick Daddy featuring Cee-Lo and Lil' Kim - Sugar (Gimme Some) (2005)
*** (of four)
The poppier Trick Daddy gets, the more I like him, especially when he partners up with Cee-Lo (whose two solo albums are very much worth tracking down). 2002's "In Da Wind" was one of the great hip-hop singles of the year, and last summer's "Sugar" followed suit. The sound is similar, yeah, but the theme is a hell of a lot more suggestive and therefore more commercial. The sweet substance referred to in the song's title is none other than the vaginal juice of whichever rented booty-dancing model is nearest.
Yep, this shit's all about cunnilingis, and the phoned-in Ludacris verse from the album track is jettisoned in favor of sixteen bars or so from Lil' Konvict Kim. Interestingly enough, MTV censors allow Trick Daddy to refer to the female sex organ as "butter pecan," "french vanilla," "the berry," "honey," "a slice of pie" and "your Cocoa Puffs." But when Lil' Kim invites the thug rapper to bring his mouth down to her "jar of honey" and "come and lick" her Tootsie Roll, her lyrics get cut to hell.
The video takes place at the Trick Daddy Sugar Shack, a candy store filled with dancing models licking lollipops and kids trying to cheat the proprietor out of his profits.There's cotton candy, a big mixing bowl full of liquid chocolate and an oven full of cookies. All the while, chunky-ass Cee-Lo can't decide whether to put his hands on the girls or the Wonka bars.
And best of all, director Ray Kay cuts in parody candy wrappers ("Tricklets," "Pimp Mints") that are pretty damn funny. The whole affair reminds me of the Jerry Springer episode where the 600-pound redneck and his equally corpulent spouse combined their love for food with their love for sex and made love in a giant bathtub full of creamed corn. If someone could make that into a rap video, the MTV censors would be ecstatic, I wager.
The poppier Trick Daddy gets, the more I like him, especially when he partners up with Cee-Lo (whose two solo albums are very much worth tracking down). 2002's "In Da Wind" was one of the great hip-hop singles of the year, and last summer's "Sugar" followed suit. The sound is similar, yeah, but the theme is a hell of a lot more suggestive and therefore more commercial. The sweet substance referred to in the song's title is none other than the vaginal juice of whichever rented booty-dancing model is nearest.
Yep, this shit's all about cunnilingis, and the phoned-in Ludacris verse from the album track is jettisoned in favor of sixteen bars or so from Lil' Konvict Kim. Interestingly enough, MTV censors allow Trick Daddy to refer to the female sex organ as "butter pecan," "french vanilla," "the berry," "honey," "a slice of pie" and "your Cocoa Puffs." But when Lil' Kim invites the thug rapper to bring his mouth down to her "jar of honey" and "come and lick" her Tootsie Roll, her lyrics get cut to hell.
The video takes place at the Trick Daddy Sugar Shack, a candy store filled with dancing models licking lollipops and kids trying to cheat the proprietor out of his profits.There's cotton candy, a big mixing bowl full of liquid chocolate and an oven full of cookies. All the while, chunky-ass Cee-Lo can't decide whether to put his hands on the girls or the Wonka bars.
And best of all, director Ray Kay cuts in parody candy wrappers ("Tricklets," "Pimp Mints") that are pretty damn funny. The whole affair reminds me of the Jerry Springer episode where the 600-pound redneck and his equally corpulent spouse combined their love for food with their love for sex and made love in a giant bathtub full of creamed corn. If someone could make that into a rap video, the MTV censors would be ecstatic, I wager.
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