Trina

CTL-E-5671 · Person · musician · 1998–present

VERIFIED evidence grade — build store (JSON graph)

Combined Graph record U-06954 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-5671.

Trina (born Katrina Laverne Taylor in Miami, Florida — her birth year is reported variously as 1974 and 1975) is Miami's defining female MC, the Southern counterweight to the explicit style Lil' Kim had blown up from Brooklyn. A Liberty City native studying for a real-estate career, she had no musical ambition when Trick Daddy recruited her for "Nann" (1998), which reached number three on Billboard's rap chart. Her debut Da Baddest Bitch (2000) was certified gold within eight months, and she followed it with a run of top-twenty albums — Diamond Princess (2002), Glamorest Life (2005), Still da Baddest (2008) and Amazin' (2010). She led the film A Miami Tail (2003), the role the CTL Short bills, later starred on Love & Hip Hop: Miami, received BET's I Am Hip Hop Award in 2022, and published her memoir Da Baddest in 2024. CultureTechLens profiled Trina in Short #166.

The record

• Also known as: Katrina Laverne Taylor, Katrina Taylor

Notes

STAGED 2026-10-16 (747 Program, Shorts Reverse-Gap Wave 5) — not merged; awaits founder merge go. Gate A: no match in the live graph (3,381 entities) under exact, normalized, alias, or token-containment screening, 2026-10-16. Reverse gap: CTL Short #166 catalog record carries no publish date before any entity record existed. Vital status: Living; active at staging — memoir Da Baddest published October 2024; Love & Hip Hop: Miami cast (verified October 2026). Photo HELD — candidate requires file-page-level license verification. Project ID: PPL-001 per wave precedent (staged 'CULTGRAPH' ID is not registered). Birth year shown as a conflict (1974 / 1975 across reference listings); the description asserts neither. MEDIA LAYER (staged 2026-10-16; full per-asset PHOTO-001 records + embed specs in the packet's staged JSON, Drive packet folder): map = N/A (Person records carry no map slot under the media-layer rule; maps attach to places and institutions.) | visual_assets = HELD: No file-page-level PHOTO-001 license verification completed at staging; slot held rather than filled with an u | chart = FILLED (CTL-created SVG built only from this record's sourced facts and statistics; CTL-branded palette (black / deep ) | video = FILLED | audio = HELD (No CTL-owned or rights-cleared matching-entity audio exists at staging; the subject's own recordings and progr)

Relationships

• Lil Wayne — collaborated with
  Trina's "Don't Trip" (2005), from Glamorest Life, featured Lil Wayne (CTL-E-5678) — a collaboration between two artists minted in this same wave.

Sources

• AllMusic biography of Trina (read via Qobuz, October 2026) — Liberty City origins, "Nann" chart peak, gold debut, top-twenty album run [primary] (primary source · build store)
• Wikipedia, 'Trina' — cross-checked against AllMusic, October 2026 (Diamond Princess peak, Glamorest Life singles, filmography) (build store)
• BET Hip Hop Awards 2022 coverage (Spectacular Magazine) — I Am Hip Hop Award (build store)
• CultureTechLens, Shorts Link Map §C catalog record, short_no 166 (CTL Short; url_status: recorded) (primary source · build store)

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