No Panties

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"No Panties"
The single's cover, with a photo of a seated Trina
Single by Trina featuring Tweet
from the album Diamond Princess
ReleasedJuly 16, 2002
GenreR&B, hip 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 song by American rapper Trina featuring Tweet for her second studio album, Diamond Princess (2002). Slip-n-Slide and Atlantic Records released it on July 16, 2002 as the album's lead single. The song was by Missy Elliott who produced it with Nisan Stewart.

"No Panties" is a hip hop song that advises against having sex with poor men. Dave Meyers directed its music video. The single peaked at number 88 and 45 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs Billboard chart and the UK Singles Chart, respectively.

Recording and composition[]

Missy Elliott wrote "No Panties" and produced it with Nisan Stewart for Trina's second studio album Diamond Princess (2002). Alvin Speights engineered the song, with assistance from Brian Kraz. The track was mixed at the Circle House Studio in Miami, Florida and mastered by Brian Gardner.[1] Music journalist Peter Shapiro believed Elliott was influenced by Timbaland for the production.[2] Elliott and Trina are close friends who have often collaborated for songs.[3][4] Elliot featured on "Rewind That Back" (a song on Diamond Princess),[4] and Trina contributed to the remixes of Elliott's "One Minute Man" (2001) and "I'm Better" (2017).[3]

"No Panties", a two-minute, 43-second hip hop song,[5] has sexually-explicit lyrics about not having sex with a poor man.[5][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.[7] 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).[8] 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".[9]

Release and promotion[]

Slip-n-Slide and Atlantic Records released "No Panties" on July 16, 2002 as the album's lead single.[5][6][10] 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.[10][11] The audio for "No Panties" was uploaded to Trina's Vevo account in 2017.[12]

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][13] In it, Trina and Tweet shop while images of men and expensive items are interspersed.[6] The filming of the music video was included on the 2006 DVD, Trina: Live & Uncut.[14] Atlantic uploaded the music video to its YouTube page on October 26, 2009.[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 songs.[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] Vibe's Laura Checkoway praised Tweet's "forthright sensuality and understated star power" on the song.[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".[5] 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 felt it was not "even remotely as erotic" as Tweet's 2002 single "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 said 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] Checkoway considered "No Panties" to be commercially successful.[22]

UK CD track listing[]

  1. "No Panties" [explicit album version]
  2. "No Panties" [instrumental]
  3. "Get It" [edit, featuring Duece Poppi][11]

Credits and personnel[]

Credits adapted from the liner notes of Diamond Princess.[1]

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. ^ Jump up to: a b Diamond Princess 2002.
  2. ^ Shapiro 2005.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b ABC NewsRadio 2020.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b Rovi Staff.
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b c d Taylor 2002, p. 20.
  6. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f Reid 2002.
  7. ^ Bekiempis 2014; Schiewe 2017
  8. ^ Bekiempis 2014.
  9. ^ Schiewe 2017.
  10. ^ Jump up to: a b AllMusic.
  11. ^ Jump up to: a b "No Panties" 2002.
  12. ^ YouTube 2017.
  13. ^ Sperounes 2002, p. 81.
  14. ^ Smith 2006.
  15. ^ YouTube 2009.
  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. ^ Jump up to: a b Checkoway 2003, p. 71.
  23. ^ Spin 2005, p. 77.
  24. ^ Cinquemani 2002.
  25. ^ Woods II 2002, p. 41.
  26. ^ Jump up to: a b Billboard.
  27. ^ Jump up to: a b Official Charts Company.

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