"Nann Nigga", often shortened to "Nann", is the title of the song's edited version of the first single from

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's second album, '' www.thug.com'', released in 1998. It features

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as the song's guest rapper. She is also the love (or lust) interest in the song.

Background and composition

The song is about Trick Daddy boasting that no one can do anything like him, especially when it comes to loving (or providing carnal pleasure to) Trina. The word "Nann" could be said to mean "no", "none" or "not one"; the resultant statement a double negative typical of southern vernacular: "You don't know "no" nigga like me..." Other possible interpretations could be that "nann" is a disambiguation of the colloquial "nary", meaning "not a" or "not one," "any other," or "never a". "You don't know ''any other'' ho..." Trick Daddy's boasting is reciprocated by Trina, with her singing "You don't know nann ho..." towards the middle of the song. It is also possible that "nann" is a contraction of "no damn." However, AAVE scholars agree that "nann," or more properly, "'n'an'," is properly a contraction of "any other," the phonetic path being 'n'an' < 'ny ath' < any other. This is typical of Southern AAVE rap, which deploys aggressive vowel merging and final dropping to ease rhyming.

Chart performance

The song reached number 62 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. The single was also successful on

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(peaking at number 3; Trick Daddy's best performance on this chart) and

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(peaking at number 20).

Music video

The music video for "Nann Nigga" directed by Zodiac Fishgrease features Chico Debarge,

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and then

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running back

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, who, like Trick Daddy, resides in

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Charts

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