No Panties

"No Panties" is a song recorded by American rapper Trina for her second studio album, Diamond Princess (2002). Missy Elliott wrote the song, producing it with Nisan Stewart. Slip-n-Slide and Atlantic Records released it on July 16, 2002 as the album's lead single.

"No Panties"
Single by Trina featuring Tweet
from the album Diamond Princess
ReleasedJuly 16, 2002
Format
GenreHip hop
Length2:43
Label
Songwriter(s)Missy Elliott
Producer(s)
Trina singles chronology
"Told Y'all"
(2001)		 "No Panties"
(2002)		 "B R Right"
(2002)
Tweet singles chronology
"Call Me"
(2002)		 "No Panties"
(2002)		 "Boogie 2nite"
(2002)

"No Panties" is a hip hop song whose lyrics advise against having sex with poor men. Dave Meyers directed its music video. The song received mixed reviews from critics. "No Panties" reached number 88 and 45 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs Billboard chart and the UK Singles Chart, respectively.

Background and release

Missy Elliott wrote "No Panties" and produced it with Nisan Stewart for Trina's second studio album, Diamond Princess.[1][2] The song was engineered by Alvin Speights, who was assisted by Brian Kraz.[2] Music journalist Peter Shapiro believed Elliott was influenced by Timbaland for the production.[3] Elliott and Trina are close friends who have often collaborated for songs.[4][5] Elliot featured on "Rewind That Back" (a song on Diamond Princess),[5] and Trina contributed to the remixes of Elliott's "One Minute Man" (2001) and "I'm Better" (2017).[4] Elliot introduced Trina to Tweet, who performs the chorus for "No Panties"; before working together in the recording studio, Trina provided Tweet with advice on the music industry.[6]

Slip-n-Slide and Atlantic Records released "No Panties" on July 16, 2002 as the album's lead single.[1][6][7] The song, which was issued as 12-inch and CD singles, had a separate European release which include the instrumental and a bonus track, "Get It", featuring Duece Poppi.[7][8] The audio for "No Panties" was uploaded to Trina's Vevo account in 2017.[9]

Trina announced plans for a music video during the BET Awards 2002.[6] The video, directed by Dave Meyers in Los Angeles, features a Mercedes-Benz car.[6][10] In it, Trina and Tweet shop while images of men and expensive items are interspersed.[6] The filming was part of the 2006 DVD, Trina: Live & Uncut.[11] Atlantic uploaded the music video to its YouTube page on October 26, 2009.[12]

Music and lyrics

"No Panties", a two-minute, 43-second hip hop song,[1] has sexually-explicit lyrics about not having sex with a poor man.[1][6] Trina said that the title was inspired by a saying often repeated by millennials.[6] In retrospective articles, music critics said that "No Panties" set a trend in Trina's career.[13] Newsweek's Victoria Bekiempis attributed a "larger-than-life rapper persona" to Trina because of "No Panties" and "Killing You Hoes": a track from her fourth studio album, Still da Baddest (2008).[14] In SF Weekly, Jessie Schiewe wrote that "B R Right" and "No Panties" set up Trina as an "artist who wasn’t afraid of talking about sex or being ashamed of her body and what she likes".[15]

Reception

Some critics, including The Morning Call's Frank Pearn Jr., Ryan Pfeffer of the Miami New Times and AllMusic's Rovi Staff, praised "No Panties" as a highlight of Diamond Princess.[16] In the Home News Tribune, Matt Richards called the single "danceable".[17] Pfeffer described "No Panties" as the album's anthem, attributing its success to Trina's ability to maintain her popularity despite signs that "she might slip below the water line of relevance".[18] Listing Trina as one of the best female rappers, a writer for XXL magazine cited "No Panties" as one of her most notable.[19] Tweet's contributions to the song also received positive reviews.[20] Chuck Campbell, writing for the Scripps Howard News Service, said that she was the perfect choice for the song.[21] Praising Tweet's "forthright sensuality and understated star power", Vibe's Laura Checkoway cited "No Panties" and her 2002 singles "Oops (Oh My)" and "Call Me" as commercially successful.[22]

For Billboard, however, Chuck Taylor criticized the song's sexual content and dismissed it as "among the most tasteless records that has ever been pressed to plastic".[1] In Spin magazine, a contributor jokingly included "No Panties" on a list of songs which "insist on giving way too much information".[23] Slant Magazine's Sal Cinquemani called the single not "even remotely as erotic" as "Oops (Oh My)".[24] In a review for The Desert Sun, Wes Woods II said that "No Panties" sounded too much like an Elliott song and Trina was outshone by her collaborators throughout the album.[25]

"No Panties" reached number 88 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs Billboard chart on August 10, 2002, spending four weeks on the chart.[26] The single peaked at number 45 in the UK Singles Chart, and was on the chart for two weeks.[27]

UK CD track listing
  1. "No Panties" [explicit album version]
  2. "No Panties" [instrumental]
  3. "Get It" [edit, featuring Duece Poppi][8]

Credits and personnel

Credits adapted from the liner notes of Diamond Princess.[2]

Charts
Chart (2001) Peak
position
UK Singles Chart (Official Charts Company)[27] 45
US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs (Billboard)[26] 88

References

Footnotes
  1. Taylor 2002, p. 20.
  2. Diamond Princess 2002.
  3. Shapiro 2005, p. 2001.
  4. ABC NewsRadio 2020.
  5. Rovi Staff.
  6. Reid 2002.
  7. AllMusic.
  8. "No Panties" 2002.
  9. YouTube 2017.
  10. Sperounes 2002, p. 81.
  11. Smith 2006.
  12. YouTube 2009.
  13. Bekiempis 2014; Schiewe 2017
  14. Bekiempis 2014.
  15. Schiewe 2017.
  16. Pearn Jr. 2003, p. 47; Pfeffer 2017; Rovi Staff.
  17. Richards 2002, p. 82.
  18. XXL 2014.
  19. Pfeffer 2017.
  20. Campbell 2002, p. 93; Checkoway 2003, p. 71.
  21. Campbell 2002, p. 93.
  22. Checkoway 2003, p. 71.
  23. Spin 2005, p. 77.
  24. Cinquemani 2002.
  25. Woods II 2002, p. 41.
  26. Billboard.
  27. Official Charts Company.

Citations
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  • "The Bad". Spin. 21 (5): 75–79. May 2005. Archived from the original on March 18, 2020.
  • Bekiempis, Victoria (March 19, 2014). "Trina Tries to Move From Bad Girl Rap". Newsweek. Archived from the original on March 18, 2020.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Campbell, Chuck (September 29, 2002). "Trina knows what she wants on 'Princess'". South Bend Tribune. p. 93. Retrieved March 18, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link) (subscription required)
  • Checkoway, Laura (January 2003). "Best New Artist: Tweet". Vibe. 11 (1): 71. Archived from the original on March 18, 2020.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Cinquemani, Sal (August 24, 2002). "Review: Trina, Diamond Princess". Slant Magazine. Archived from the original on March 19, 2020.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Diamond Princess (Media notes). Trina. Slip-N-Slide, Atlantic. 2002.CS1 maint: others (link)
  • "Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles". Billboard. Archived from the original on March 18, 2020.
  • "No Panties" (Media notes). Trina. Atlantic. 2002. 7567-85382-0.CS1 maint: others (link)
  • "No Panties (feat. Tweet)". YouTube. January 14, 2017. Archived from the original on March 19, 2020.
  • "No Panties". Official Charts Company. Archived from the original on March 18, 2020.
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  • "Releases". AllMusic. Archived from the original on March 18, 2020.
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  • Rovi Staff. "AllMusic Review by Rovi Staff". AllMusic. Archived from the original on March 18, 2020.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Schiewe, Jessie (June 21, 2017). "Trina, Da Baddest Bitch, Comes to Town". SF Weekly. Archived from the original on March 19, 2020.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Shapiro, Peter (2005). The Rough Guide to Hip-hop. Rough Guides. ISBN 9781843532637.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • Sperounes, Sandra (August 31, 2002). "Video-A-Go-Go". Edmonton Journal. p. 81. Retrieved March 19, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link) (subscription required)
  • Smith, Antwan (Director) (April 18, 2006). Trina: Live & Uncut (DVD). Lebanon: SMC Recordings.
  • Taylor, Chuck (July 20, 2002). "Singles". Billboard. 114 (29): 20. Archived from the original on March 18, 2020.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • "Trina and Missy Elliott collaborate on new music". ABC NewsRadio. February 21, 2020. Archived from the original on March 18, 2020.
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