Trick Daddy Says He Doesn’t Identify As ‘African American’

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Trick Daddy says he no longer identifies as African American and explained the reason to his fans via Instagram.

“I ain’t never been to Afro-ca. I have never been to Africa. Afro or Africa. Never been there. I’m not from Africa,” he said in the video.

Trick continued, “I was born and raised in Goulds, Florida. I was born in Goulds, raised in Liberty City in the Pork-N-Beans projects. Ain’t never went to Africa, ain’t thinking about going there. And I heard it’s a beautiful place, yes. And I know it’s the motherland, yes. But not my mother, not her mother, and not her mother’s mother, that ain’t their land. Americans’ real true land is right here, on U.S. soils.”

He did acknowledge that he heard that African is a “beautiful place.”

Fans roasted him in the comments section.

Trick Daddy is best known for his 2004 single “Let’s Go” (featuring Twista and Lil Jon), which peaked at number seven on the Billboard Hot 100. The album which it preceded, Thug Matrimony: Married to the Streets (2004), peaked at number two on the Billboard 200 albums chart, both of which remain his most successful releases to date. Prior, he signed to local record label Slip-n-Slide Records for the release of his debut album, Based on a True Story (1997), and its sequel, www.thug.com (1998). Becoming the flagship artist for the label, he signed a joint venture deal with Atlantic Records to release Book of Thugs: Chapter AK Verse 47 (2000), Thugs Are Us (2001), and Thug Holiday (2002), which were met with moderate commercial success.

He followed up Thug Matrimony with the albums Back by Thug Demand (2006) and the independently-released Finally Famous: Born a Thug, Still a Thug (2009), and notably guest appeared on hometown native DJ Khaled’s singles “I’m So Hood” in 2007 and “Out Here Grindin’” in 2008.

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