Editing Tricky (rapper) (section)

==Career==
===1987–1994: The Wild Bunch, Massive Attack===
In the mid-1980s, Tricky met DJ Milo and spent time with a sound system called [[The Wild Bunch (sound system)|the Wild Bunch]], which, by 1987, evolved into Massive Attack. He received the nickname "Tricky Kid," and, at age 18, became a member of the Fresh&nbsp;4, a rap group built from the Wild Bunch. He also rapped on Massive Attack's acclaimed debut album, ''[[Blue Lines]]'' (1991).<ref name="amazon1">{{cite book|title=Massive Attack: Out Of The Comfort Zone: Amazon.co.uk: Melissa Chemam: 9781910089729: Books |id={{ASIN|1910089729|country=uk}} }}</ref>

In 1991, before the release of ''Blue Lines'', he met Martina Topley-Bird in Bristol. Some time later, she came to his house and mentioned to Tricky and [[Mark Stewart (English musician)|Mark Stewart]] that she could sing. Martina was only 15 years old, but her "honey-coated vox" impressed them, and they recorded a song called "Aftermath"<ref name="Larkin">{{cite book|title=[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music|The Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]|editor=Colin Larkin|editor-link=Colin Larkin (writer)|publisher=[[Virgin Books]]|date=1997|edition=Concise|isbn=1-85227-745-9|page=1191}}</ref> (although ''[[The Face (magazine)|The Face]]'' '95 mentions that the first song they recorded together was called "Shoebox"). Tricky showed "Aftermath" to Massive Attack, but they were not interested. In 1993, he decided to press a few hundred vinyl copies of the song. In 1995, a [[white label record]] got him a contract with [[Island Records]], and he started to record his first solo album, ''Maxinquaye''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://mojim.com/ush103593.htm|title=Tricky (musician)( Adrian Nicholas Matthews Thaws ) Total collection of 19 albums 227 lyrics |website=Mojim.com|access-date=5 February 2018}}</ref>

===1995–2001: Solo breakthrough===
[[File:Tricky mp3h1934.jpg|thumb|right|Tricky performing in 2008]]
Tricky left Massive Attack to release his debut album, ''[[Maxinquaye]]'', co-produced by himself and [[Mark Saunders (record producer)|Mark Saunders]] and prominently featuring singer Martina Topley-Bird.<ref name="Larkin"/> The album was successful, and Tricky consequently attained international fame, something he was notably uncomfortable with.<ref>{{cite news |last=Lynskey |first=Dorian |title=Culture Music Tricky Tricky: 'I thought I'd be an underground artist. I was not ready' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2012/apr/18/tricky-maxinquaye-interview |access-date=19 April 2012 |newspaper=The Guardian |date=18 April 2012}}</ref> The ''Maxinquaye'' album review by ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' read: "Tricky devoured everything from American hip-hop and [[Soul music|soul]] to [[reggae]] and the more melancholic strains of '80s British rock".<ref name="rs">"[https://web.archive.org/web/20080731063036/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/tricky/albums/album/249416/review/5941140/maxinquaye Album Reviews: Tricky&nbsp;– Maxinquaye]", ''Rolling Stone'', 2 February 1998.</ref>

Authors David Hesmondhalgh and Caspar Melville wrote in the book ''Global Noise: Rap and Hip-Hop Outside the USA'': "Tricky showed his debt to hip-hop aesthetics by reconstructualising samples and slices of both the most respected black music ([[Public Enemy (band)|Public Enemy]]) and the tackiest pop (quoting [[David Cassidy]]'s "How Can I Be Sure?")."<ref>David Hesmondhalgh and Caspar Melville, "Urban Breakbeat Culture: Repercussions of Hip-Hop in the United Kingdom," in ''Global Noise: Rap and Hip-Hop Outside the USA'' (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2001), 104–105.</ref> As the ''Rolling Stone'' article further explained, Tricky created "a mercurial style of dance music that immediately finds {{sic|it}} own fast feet."<ref name=rs />

Tricky failed to complete a number of lyrics begun for the Massive Attack album ''[[Protection (Massive Attack album)|Protection]]'' and gave the band some of the lyrics he had written for ''Maxinquaye'' instead, meaning there is significant overlap in the lyrics of songs on the two albums—specifically with "Overcome" on ''Maxinquaye'' and "Karmacoma" on ''Protection''; and "Hell is 'Round the Corner" on ''Maxinquaye''  and "Eurochild" on ''Protection.'' Tricky found it difficult to cope with the huge success of ''Maxinquaye'' and subsequently eschewed the laidback soul sound of the first album to create an increasingly edgy and aggressive [[Punk rock|punk]] style of music.

In 1996, [[Neneh Cherry]] and [[Björk]] appeared as guests on his second album ''[[Nearly God]]''.<ref name="Larkin"/> The opening number was a cover of the [[Siouxsie and the Banshees]] pre-trip-hop song "[[Tattoo (Siouxsie and the Banshees song)|Tattoo]]"<ref name=irish>Boyd, Brian. [http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/he-be-the-prophet-1.52173 "He Be The Prophet"]. ''The Irish Times''. 24 May 1996. Retrieved 12 October 2015.</ref> that had previously inspired Tricky when he forged his style.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.allmusic.com/artist/tricky-mn0000025462/related |title=Tricky &#124; Similar Artists |publisher=[[AllMusic]] |access-date=10 April 2016}}</ref>

In 2001, Tricky appeared on the ''[[Thirteen Ghosts]]'' soundtrack with the song "Excess" which (briefly) features [[Alanis Morissette]] during two of the choruses. In 2002, that song also appeared on the ''[[Queen of the Damned]]'' soundtrack.

===2002–2011: ''Mixed Race'' and other work===
[[File:Tricky @ INmusic festival.jpg|thumb|left|190px|Tricky at the 2009 [[INmusic festival]] in [[Zagreb]], Croatia]]
Tricky's studio album ''[[Knowle West Boy]]'' was released in the UK and Ireland in July 2008, and September 2008 in the US. The first single from the album was "Council Estate" and features the artist as the sole vocalist: "It's the first single I've ever done with just me on vocals. I couldn't whisper that song. I had to come out of myself and do a loud, screaming vocal. I wanted to be a proper frontman on that one."<ref>{{cite web |title=New Tricky Video – 'Council Estate' |url=http://www.stereogum.com/10016/new_tricky_video_council_estate/video/ |website=Stereogum.com |access-date=24 June 2013 |first=Amrit |last=Singh |date=27 May 2008}}</ref> In an interview with ''[[The Skinny (magazine)|The Skinny]]'' in July 2008, Tricky mentioned that ''Knowle West Boy'' was the first album for which he decided to enlist a co-producer. Ex-[[Suede (band)|Suede]] guitarist [[Bernard Butler]] was Tricky's initial selection, but, less than enamoured with Butler's technical prowess, Tricky finished the album by totally re-recording all of the material.<ref>{{cite news |title=Tricky: Real Gone Kid |first=Dave |last=Kerr |url=http://www.theskinny.co.uk/article/43387-tricky-real-gone-kid |newspaper=The Skinny |date=30 July 2008 |access-date=14 August 2011}}</ref>

On 8 December 2009, Tricky's 1995 debut album ''Maxinquaye'' was reissued with a bonus 13-track CD featuring [[A-side and B-side|B-sides]], [[outtake]]s and seven previously unreleased mixes of songs such as "Overcome", "Hell is Round the Corner" and "[[Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos|Black Steel]]".<ref>{{cite web |title=Tricky – Maxinquaye |url=http://www.discogs.com/Tricky-Maxinquaye/release/2371991 |publisher=discogs |access-date=24 June 2013 |year=2013}}</ref>

In December 2009, the media reported that Massive Attack met Tricky in Paris and asked him to work on a future project—Daddy G said: "Things seem like they've healed between us and Tricky. It's been quite well documented how us and Tricky get on, hasn't it? It's not that well, but things have changed. Things have softened up. We saw Tricky a couple of weeks ago in Paris and it was quite an amicable meeting after five or six years."<ref>{{cite news |title=Massive Attack and Tricky make up |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8402022.stm |access-date=24 June 2013 |work=BBC News |date=8 December 2009 |first=Georgie |last=Rogers}}</ref> Tricky agreed to record with the band and he revealed in a June 2013 interview that "there's a couple of songs which are OK, which are really good actually to be honest with you". However, Tricky also stated in June 2013 that he could not spend more than two or three days with Massive Attack and described band member Daddy&nbsp;G as "very arrogant".<ref name="Tom">{{cite web |title=Tricky on Massive Attack, Bjork, Obama and false idols |url=http://www.fasterlouder.com.au/features/35933/Tricky-on-Massive-Attack-Bjork-Obama-and-false-idols |website=FasterLouder.com.au |access-date=24 June 2013 |first=Tom|last= Mann |date=12 June 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130615232934/http://www.fasterlouder.com.au/features/35933/Tricky-on-Massive-Attack-Bjork-Obama-and-false-idols |archive-date=15 June 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Tricky's ninth album ''[[Mixed Race (album)|Mixed Race]]'' was released on 27 September 2010 and the first single from the album became available on 23 August. The album includes contributions from Franky Riley, Terry Lynn, [[Bobby Gillespie]], Hamadouche, Blackman and Tricky's youngest brother Marlon Thaws.<ref name="Tim">{{cite news |title=Tricky: 'I can still be really dark in my mind' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/sep/19/tricky-mixed-race-interview |access-date=24 June 2013 |newspaper=The Guardian |date=19 September 2010 |first=Tim |last=Adams}}</ref>

In June 2011, Tricky's then label Brownpunk signed on Mexican band My Black Heart Machine for one single, "It Beats Like This", which Tricky co-produced.<ref>{{cite news |last=Caballero |first=Jorge |title=My Black Heart Machine lanzará en septiembre su primer EP: Little Tragedies |url=http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2012/08/13/espectaculos/a19n1esp |access-date=21 October 2013 |newspaper=La Jornada |date=13 August 2012}}</ref> My Black Heart Machine was then commissioned by the label to cover a song from Maxinquaye for an album of covers by Brownpunk's roster; the band chose "Hell Is Round the Corner". "It Beats Like This" was released independently by the band on their first EP in April 2013.

Tricky produced rapper Omni's album ''IamOmni (produced by Tricky)'' (released under the moniker ''IamOmni'') that was available from 30 August 2011 as a free download on Omni's official site.

===2011–present: ''False Idols'', live events, ''Ununiform''===
On 26 June 2011, Tricky appeared on stage during American singer [[Beyoncé]]'s historic [[Beyoncé 2011 Glastonbury performance|2011 Glastonbury Festival Performance]] on the pyramid stage for the track "[[Baby Boy (Beyoncé Knowles song)|Baby Boy]]". Partly the result of technical difficulties with his microphone, he later stated he was "mortified" by his own performance, saying, "I've never been so embarrassed. My body just froze".<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.contactmusic.com/news/tricky-was-mortified-by-ill-fated-beyonce-duet_1323596 |title=Tricky &#124; Tricky Was Mortified By Ill-fated Beyonce Duet |magazine=Contactmusic.com |date= 30 April 2012|access-date=1 June 2013}}</ref>

In April 2012, Tricky performed ''Maxinquaye'' with Martina Topley-Bird at several concerts around the UK including, for the first time in several years in his home town of Bristol. The concerts featured regular interruptions orchestrated by Tricky, where he brought his youngest brother, Marlon Thaws to rap on stage alongside other local rappers as well as encouraging the audience to come up on stage. The review of the concert in Manchester said it was "shambolic" and a "car crash" with Tricky often leaving the stage and continuously forgetting his words, leaving Topley Bird to carry the delivery of the tracks, resulting in many leaving early after repeated issues with Tricky's behaviour and shouts of "wanker" from the crowd.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://louderthanwar.com/tricky-featuring-martina-topley-bird-manchester-academy-2/|title=Tricky featuring Martina Topley Bird. Manchester Academy 2.|publisher=Louder Than ar|access-date=9 September 2017|date=May 2012}}</ref>

In February 2013, Tricky announced the release of a new album, ''[[False Idols]]''. The album is the follow-up from his 2010 ''Mixed Race'' and featured [[Peter Silberman]], [[Fifi Rong]] and [[Nneka (singer)|Nneka]]. Tricky released this statement about the album:
::"This new album I'll stand behind every track. I don't care whether people like it. I'm doing what I want to do, which is what I did with my first record. That's what made me who I was in the beginning. If people don't like it, it don't matter to me because I'm back where I was."<ref>{{cite web |last=Minsker |first=Evan |title=Tricky Announces New Album False Idols, Shares Track 'Nothing's Changed' |url=http://pitchfork.com/news/49716-tricky-announces-new-album-false-idols-shares-track-nothings-changed/ |access-date=27 February 2013 |website=[[Pitchfork (website)|Pitchfork]] |date=27 February 2013}}</ref>

In spring 2014, it was announced that Tricky is to perform at a number of festivals throughout Europe over the summer of 2014, including Control Day Out in Romania, festival [[Couleur Café]] in Belgium, Positivus Festival in Latvia and [[Galtres Parklands Festival]] in England, the latter of which he co-headlines with contemporaries [[Morcheeba]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Radu |first=Fabian |date=2014-06-30 |title=POZE: Control Day Out 2014 (Tricky) la Bucuresti |url=https://www.iconcert.ro/poze-control-day-out-2014-verde-stop-bucuresti.html |access-date=2024-07-30 |website=iConcert.ro |language=ro}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2014-06-27 |title=Festival of music and dance - Galtres Parklands Festival 2014 |url=http://www.galtresfestival.org.uk/music-dance.cfm |access-date=2024-07-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140627222030/http://www.galtresfestival.org.uk/music-dance.cfm |archive-date=27 June 2014 }}</ref>

Tricky announced a new album titled ''[[Adrian Thaws (album)|Adrian Thaws]]'' in June 2014. It was released on 8 September 2014.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://pitchfork.com/news/55752-tricky-announces-new-album-adrian-thaws-shares-nicotine-love/ |title=Tricky Announces New Album Adrian Thaws, Shares "Nicotine Love" |website=Pitchfork |date=30 June 2014 |access-date=7 July 2014 |last=Gordon|first=Jeremy}}</ref> ''[[Skilled Mechanics]]'' was released in January 2016.<ref>{{cite web|first=David |last=Jeffries |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/skilled-mechanics-mw0002900858 |title=Skilled Mechanics – Skilled Mechanics, Tricky &#124; Songs, Reviews, Credits |publisher=[[AllMusic]] |date=22 January 2016|access-date=10 April 2016}}</ref> The same month was released a song Tricky had written with 3D from Massive Attack, on the band's EP Ritual Spirit.<ref name="factmag.com">{{Cite web|url=https://www.factmag.com/2016/01/28/massive-attack-ritual-spirit-ep/|title=Massive Attack drop Ritual Spirit EP with Tricky, Roots Manuva|website=Factmag.com|date=28 January 2016|access-date=28 June 2021}}</ref>

His thirteenth official studio album, ''[[ununiform]]'', was released on 22 September 2017, and featured collaborations with [[Asia Argento]], Avalon Lurks, and Martina Topley-Bird, as well as a cover of [[Hole (band)|Hole]]'s "[[Doll Parts]]".<ref name=pf>{{cite web|last=Cardew|first= Ben|title=Tricky: ununiform|access-date=20 September 2017|date=20 September 2017|url=https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/tricky-ununiform/|website=Pitchfork}}</ref> Polish singer Marta Złakowska joined Tricky's band on a 2017 tour as a guest singer. She stepped in at the last minute when the originally planned singer dropped out.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Kamiński |first=Karol |date=2023-03-08 |title=Tricky performs live with singer Marta Złakowska - new album from Marta & Tricky coming up |url=https://idioteq.com/tricky-performs-live-with-singer-marta-zlakowska-new-album-from-marta-tricky-coming-up/ |access-date=2023-03-17 |website=IDIOTEQ.com |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite web |last=Magazine |first=Decoded |date=2023-02-16 |title=Tricky collaborator and vocalist Marta Zlakowska announces solo album |url=https://www.decodedmagazine.com/tricky-collaborator-and-vocalist-marta-zlakowska-announces-solo-album/ |access-date=2023-03-17 |website=Decoded Magazine |language=en-US}}</ref>

Blink, an imprint of Bonnier Books UK, has acquired Tricky's autobiography. Commissioning Editor Kerri Sharp acquired World rights from K7 Music – the independent music company headquartered in Berlin, where Tricky<ref name="factmag.com"/> now lives. The book is currently untitled and will sell as a £20 Hardback in October 2019.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bonnierbooks.co.uk/news/blink-acquires-the-fascinating-and-moving-autobiography-of-music-artist-tricky/|title=Blink acquires the 'fascinating and moving' autobiography of Tricky|website=Bonnierbook.co.uk|date=12 March 2019}}</ref>

His EP ''20,20'' was released on 6 March 2020. It featured the song ''Lonely Dancer'' recorded with the female singer [[Anika (musician)|Anika]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Roberts|first=Christopher|title=Tricky Announces New EP, Shares New Song "Lonely Dancer" (Feat. Anika)|url=http://undertheradarmag.com/news/tricky_announces_new_ep_shares_new_song_lonely_dancer_feat._anika|access-date=2 July 2020|website=undertheradarmag.com|language=en}}</ref> She had previously worked with [[Beak (band)|Beak]] in 2010.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.phacemag.com/82038203tricky-talks-to-melissa-chemam-on-the-release-of-his-much-acclaimed-autobiography-hell-is-around-the-corner.html |title=Tricky talks to Melissa Chemam on the release of his much acclaimed Autobiography, ''Hell Is Around The Corner''|website=Phacemag.com |access-date=21 May 2020}}</ref> Tricky's next album, ''Fall to Pieces,'' was released in September 2020.<ref name=":0" /> The album featured singers Marta and [[Oh Land]].

In October 2021, Tricky released a new album under the artist name 'Lonely Guest'. The self-titled album featured collaborations with [[Lee "Scratch" Perry]], [[Idles]]' frontman [[Joe Talbot (singer)|Joe Talbot]] and [[Maxïmo Park|Maxïmo Park's]] [[Paul Smith (rock vocalist)|Paul Smith]].<ref name="Pitchfork, Lonely Guest">{{Cite web|last=Minsker|first=Evan|date=8 September 2021|title=Tricky Announces Album From New Project Lonely Guest, Shares Song: Listen|url=https://pitchfork.com/news/tricky-announces-album-from-new-project-lonely-guest-shares-song-listen/|access-date=10 February 2022|website=Pitchfork}}</ref> It featured songs with previous album vocalists Marta and Oh Land.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Lonely Guest, by Lonely Guest |url=https://falseidols.bandcamp.com/album/lonely-guest |access-date=2023-03-17 |website=False Idols |language=en}}</ref>