South Florida rap icon brings his culture to cookware with Trick Daddy Pots | VIDEO

It feels only natural that Trick Daddy’s cooking show, “I Got My Pots,” led the hip-hop legend to launch a signature line of cookware.

Trick Daddy Pots debuted in December featuring a 15-piece ceramic cookware collection born out of his viral video cooking/culinary series (originally titled “B—-, I Got My Pots!”), which has seen celebrity guests such as NeNe Leakes, CeeLo Green, Trina, DJ Khaled, Timbaland, Rick Ross and Mike Epps in the kitchen with the Miami-born rapper. (You can find the videos on social media, YouTube.com and TubiTV.com.)

The Miramar resident — known for hits such as “Take It To Da House,” “I’m a Thug,” “Let’s Go,” “Sugar (Gimme Some)” — also stars on the BET reality TV series “Love & Hip Hop: Miami.”

“I send [Trick Daddy Pots] to all my celebrity friends, all the social media influencers that I know,” Trick Daddy, whose real name is Maurice Samuel Young, tells the South Florida Sun Sentinel. “And so every time one of us posts a video, we sell a couple hundred pots.”

As if that weren’t enough to cement his foodie entrepreneur status, Trick Daddy owns Sunday’s Eatery, with two locations in Fort Lauderdale and Miami Gardens.

“Dealing with restaurants, you have to go get different pots, you have to get the right pots,” he says. “Then I said, ‘We’re going to do a podcast/cooking show.’ And they was like, ‘What are you going to call it?’ And I’m like, ‘B—-, I Got My Pots.’ On social media, everybody started saying it. C.O. Piscapo (co-host, musical artist and “hype man”) was like, ‘We got to get you pots.’ So C.O. started to travel to different countries finding the perfect manufacturing.”

The set, which costs $169.99, includes fry pans, saucepans, stock pots, tempered glass lids and multiuse utensils — all with ceramic non-stick coating, heat-resistant construction and an easy-clean design, according to the website TrickDaddyPots.com.

“Every stove ain’t the same, but my pots cook on all of them. You can put my pots in the oven,” he says. “And it’s really non-stick. That I can cook an egg sunny side up and, when it’s cooked enough at the bottom, if I wanted to fry it and flip it, that’s all I had to do is just flip it. I can rinse the pot out and wipe it out with a napkin and put it back. It’s clean. And that took a lot of research. We’ve been working on this for over a year.”

Cooking has always been there for Trick Daddy, since he was young. But cookware specifically showed up on his radar while living with Miami rap impresario Luther “Uncle Luke” Campbell.

“I was homeless … Luke was like, ‘Come live with me.’ He had a cook, but she only came like two or three days out of the week. And I was like, ‘I’m cooking the rest of the days. We got to stop ordering all this food,’” he relates. “But he didn’t have the pots because the cook came over with her own pots. So I was like, ‘Man, we got to get our pots. We got to go get a set of pots.’ So he gave me the credit card like, ‘Go, go get a set of pots.’

“I go get a set of pots. I didn’t like the pots. They said no-stick but they were sticking. So I went to make my own money and I got better pots, but by that time I got my own place.”

Now with his brand-new cookware, there were several considerations, including pricing (to keep the cost accessible to average home cooks) and colors (he picked blue because it represents South Florida).

“The blue, what we call the Sunday’s [Eatery] blue. … We always got the blue skies, blue ocean. I want to do something authentic, something that represents the crib,” he says.

But Trick Daddy, who has struggled with lupus, says they also were mindful of manufacturing/health concerns.

“We researched and we found that certain things that they make pots with, it’s bad for you, could give you cancer, kill you,” he says. “We wanted to make sure none of the harmful stuff is in our pots.”

Up next, a new color is coming for the cookware, and it has a link to lupus.

“The color for the Lupus Foundation (of America) is purple, which is also my favorite color,” he says. “So we got a baking set of pots that’s coming, that we’re working on … I got cookie sheets, loaf pans, pound cake pans, a roaster, cake pans, everything that goes directly in the oven for baking purposes … and it’s going to be purple.”