Editing Tricky (rapper) (section)

===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.