Rapper Tricky: Trip hop legend on his unlikely rise to success - BBC Newsnight
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- From his troubled Bristol childhood, the rapper Tricky charts his success from petty criminal to trip hop pioneer in his new memoir “Hell is Round the Corner”.
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Adrian Thaws, AKA Tricky, first made his name with the hugely influential collective Massive Attack, before going on to release a much admired solo album.
Here he talks to Newsnight’s culture correspondent Stephen Smith.
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He's the musical version of an outsider artist. Genuine talent and creativity with no elitism. Too many artists are the opposite.
one of the realest dudes to walk the Earth.
Tricky is a musical legend, cool af
One of my favourite British artists of all time.
Got me into trip hop and other Bristol music from the likes of
Massive Attack, Portishead, Smith and Mighty, Roni Size, Kosheen, Krust, Allflaws
A couple I've not heard of there and this was my era and pretty much my location (South coast)
ok actually only one I haven't heard of is allflaws but in that company im obliged to check them out
@@Kholaslittlespot1 Yes all from Bristol. Allflaws are from a newer generation of artists. I also like Pinch and Appleblim for dark experimental Dubstep
I absolutely ❤ Tricky.
Rip to his beautiful daughter. 💫
"Politic is the illusion of choice", So true
it's more nuanced than that but he's otherwise totally right
Former MP Tony Benn said, if a vote meant anything they wouldn't give it to you!
They used to call me Tricky kid
I live the life they wish they did.
The sickest track
and now they call me superSTAR
Man this dude is very underrated
0:55 - lmao, such a legend. I'm reading Tricky's book atm. I love the bloke. Gloucester boy myself.
As an actor he was brilliant in Luc Besson’s The Fifth Element.
One of my favorite movies of all time and yeah I really liked his character in that flick!
Oyy am korban Dallas
I see him quite often in my neighbourhood
Say hi
5:04 nothing's changed, still feel the same...
One time in the mid 90s my boy was partying with Tricky and friends at a bar. Tricky kissed him on the lips as a joke ( so he said) and my boy accidentally broke Tricky’s leg. 😂 Tricky bandaged it up and continued partying
TRICKY WE LOVE YOU BROTHER!!!! XX
I appreciate his perspective on music in general. The best arrangements are effortless.
Always liked tricky....Top man, very intelligent, knows the score 👍
I like everything about him.
Tricky
since 30 jears listen to him
the only one musican, from witch i buy his sounds without listen him bevor
Tricky is a part of my Heard like Einstürzende Neubauten
I also love Sleaford mods
Thanks
in fact you ARE a true genius
Rip mazy
Tricky you are real
Music is entertainment
Vote too
People call him Tricky for particular reason.
Tricky es una inspiración para la gente real
Nice to hear THAT wiew.
by design nothing changes,if we get that change every man woman or child will be equal as we should be
Love you tricky!
on jest odkrywcą ~ jak sam Bóg
Tricky was the first gender bending rapper. The UK needs to open up abit more. Let drill peak out then its time to open the door.
02:00, he's not wrong. The typecasting for black musicians- you're either a hip-hop, R&B or maybe just maybe jazz? Shame. America is even more harsh on this narrowcasting.
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he is a genius!
LEGEND. period
He’s a one off great guy , I’m on his side all the way .
well, i just love music
Brilliant man!
Lucky bastard he is. :) Dating Björk kicking it with interesting trip hop, jazz hop sounds with the West Country accent.
Not so lucky as his mum killed herself as did his daughter. He is a testament to surviving and the human spirit
His book is Superb!
Tricky my man, respect, love your music almost on a espiritual level...but about politics.....i mean...things change....they are changing for worse my man, for worse!
I feel that a lot changed and is still changing, but yea on the surface, the same illusions
I like tricky, but the reason his music isn't played on the radio isn't because he's black it's cause is music isn't popular with the majority of young people, BBC Radio 1 only really play top 40.
It's because his music (if you can call it that) sucks.
@@hi-xf7cj listen to hell is round the corner and seriously study the lyrics
Universal message give kids a place and something to do in 64 from the time I was a teen and pretwen violence is in human nature
It's very true what he is saying about radio. Urban genres are created out of nothing in the inner cities of London and the UK and at radio mysteriously a white guy (not Westwood hes been pioneering hip hop in the UK since the 80s) gets given the main radio position at the most powerful radio stations . The guy was nowhere to be seen when the movement started and was struggling. Alot of the times the guy is trying desperately hard to play the part.
The same goes for the A&R positions at the labels. I think the kids that started on the street level via pirate radio etc should be given the leading positions. Unfortunately they are ousted and left struggling whilst the ones who dont deserve it get a salary and a long career. This is very wrong.
Westwood doesn't know that he isn't black.
@@MisAnnThorpe to be honest I can't knock Westwood because he was pioneering hiphop in london in the 80s when hip hop was not credible.
@@thelasthourgetready To my mind Hop hop has never been credible. As far as mainstream Hip hop goes, I feel it's never really said anything that has made people question things - certainly explains why The Disposable heroes of hiphoprisy were virtually ignored - and has been an entirely negative influence. No doubt, that is the sole reason for it being promoted as the music of youth.
@@MisAnnThorpe some groups in the 80s and 90s had a very powerful message like Public Enemy, De la soul (stakes is high), stop the violence movement but I think the major record labels used labels like bad boy and death row to really push and glamourise negativity. This is the foundation of the mindless hip hop that we have today. I think this generation are too far gone to go back to conscious hip hop.
@@thelasthourgetready Maybe 10 years ago, I'd have been inclined to agree with you. Since then, I THINK I've started to see things a lot more clearly. I'm old enough to remember when Public Enemy first "broke upon the scene". They were being touted as the most dangerous band since The Sex Pistols. So dangerous in fact, that they were on the front cover of every mainstream music paper in the U.K.! I haven't listened to Yo bum rush the show for a very long time but my outstanding memory is that there was a track on there called "My Uzi weighs a ton". Oh, and another with the oh so provocative title of, "Sophisticated bitch". Am I right? If this is supposedly intelligent Hip hop then I really don't want to hear the dumb stuff. In fairness, there are some great grooves on their second and third albums and some pretty decent rhymes but compared to Michael Franti, it's really no more than kids stuff. As for PE being dangerous; well I remember Chuck namedropping Minister Louis Farrakhan (leader of The Nation of Islam) quite a bit in interviews (Farrakhan in case you don't know is quite an admirer of Hitler) and yet when Professor Griff was so "controversial" as to say that the music business was run by Jews, he was unceremoniously kicked out of the band! Then again with Rick Rubin as head of Def Jam records, was that really any surprise? If the purpose of PE was to appear to be controversial and divisive of opinion then yes, I guess they succeeded. If their intention was to empower black people who felt disenfranchised then a quick glance at their typically 80 - 90%(?) white audience would suggest that they failed.
Complains about lack of youth clubs in one breath......says he doesn't believe in politics - the system by which you get those youth clubs - in another.
He's talking about party politics which is a complete and utter game of charades.
Here in the United States, we get a lot of British actors like Edris Elba who talk about how bad the class system is in entertainment. Edris has said several times if he had not come to the United States and started acting he wouldn't have a career today. He said there were minor bit parts in England but there were NO roles for someone that looked like him. The people that were getting acting roles in British television and film were the ones that went to the "right schools".
@jack 187 Eddie Redmayne and Kenneth Branagh have both talked about this as well. They know they were privileged (race and class) to have the careers they have, and they know they got breaks in the British film and television industry due to the class system.
@jack 187 You are very misinformed about Ivy League Schools. Yes, an Ivy League Degree can get you an entry-level job at a firm on Wall Street but that's just about it. Most of the Harvard or Princeton guys never end up running the corporation.
jack 187 Presidents may tend to have attended elite schools, but the situation in the U.S. is hardly comparable to the U.K. Many actors/actresses in the U.S. never finish college.
Every single programme and advertisement on UK TV today is packed with black people (a group that made up 3.4% of the population at the last census). It feels like turning on the television in Nigeria. I'd suggest that these days young white actors and actresses must be the ones finding it very hard to find work as roles are closed out to them by politically correct quotas.
His name is Idris.
people who can't comprehend more than 4 letter words you can't get what he is saying. don't even pretend.
Tricky speaks truth
Tricky's political apathy is neither helpful nor reasonable. People can change politics with their votes, with their protests and with getting involved, knowing and communicating with their MP. Is not difficult and it doesn't take much time. Apathy is like a virus we have to kill if we want a good health or even to survive. Help us to stop Apathy, Tricky, get involved.
Tricky wasn't being apathetic. Apathy means indifference. He clearly knows what is going on and is making an informed choice not to debase himself. Rejecting the state and its corrupt system is the most healthy thing an individual can do.
Black Gnosis Rejecting the state and it's corrupt system will never change the state. He complains about nothing ever changing in politics but what the fuck did he do to achieve change? NOTHING! He even left the country!!!
Som Thing Absolutely right. Politicians will take our money no matter what. If they know a person will not vote, they won't give him the time of day.
@@PaulSmith-pf2uq And you think you can change things depending on which party you vote for? Over 1,000,000 people marched in London, in opposition to the invasion (because that's exactly what it was) of Iraq and it made no difference whatsoever.
Nothing healthy about wasting the potential to vote and thus make change. I agree that the game is rigged but that is all the more reason to campaign for change. I like Tricky but he shows a lack of understanding here.
I dont vote tooo
Great , iam too !! I never give my live in voting !!
That does it... at 48 this could be a crossroads moment for me. I liked some of this guy’s music during his Massive Attack days - some of it still sounds good to me. These were the days I also respected the BBC and if I was perched in front of the box of a late evening, Newsnight would be a must view. Now I believe that the BBC is set on a course like so much else in current Western society that is essentially a scramble to the bottom and I think that few BBC programs exemplify this better than Newsnight does. So I’m either right in this belief or at 48 I am getting old and past it. I guess it could be both but the truth is I can’t decide which is the worst case scenario.
What about the video inspired you to write this tangent?
Like Paxman said when he left Newsnight, 'the programme's being made by 13 year-olds'. Staffed and presented by do-gooders who've probably never been outside London in their lives (or at least not for so long that they've forgotten what the outside world is like), it is in fact a perfect representation of the modern BBC and all it stands for.
Who asked?
Tricky you are a genius!
i got fan mail from bowie
Unfortunately your vote 🗳 don’t mater
Not much has changed??? That isn't true at all.
Tricky is a musical genius, that is my opinion and I can be wrong,. Tricky believes not being participatory in our political climate is a good choice, that is his opinion and he can be wrong. The thing is, though, that the political system we have is shit that is for sure, but to change it, to have a good system regardless how you call it, we need to be involved with our votes first. This is just how it is. The fact of the matter is, this is a fact. Being a good boy, a musical legend don't and will not translate to being able to grasp the realities of other issues, in this case politics. Sorry man. Vote mtf.
vote and ACTION are two different things.
Terrible role model.
Cheddar man?
Knowle west
...long since finished career artist [no-one basically, unimportant]..drag him out/ use him to convince his generation [ie voters] to not vote, or at least think again about leaving Europe. Trite techniques from the 'stir the shit' remain brigade.
this guys in the mongrel mob isn't he lmao
nz scrap offical what’s that supposed to mean
@@Moonlight.Melon.Mounter there is a gang in New Zealand called the Mongrel Mob and tricky came over and joined it
Lol apparently was supposed to be prospecting for the Mobster chapter, wonder if he ever got his patch?
Tricky is legend but not voting isn't the way.
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he was never a great muso but he speaks truthfully tho
nothing really matters except how you move forward and develop. life is the greatest dance
@@IvanPolyansky Do you honestly think that Tricky has moved forward or developed in a positive way? I'd say quite the opposite is true both in terms of his music and his life in general. I've seen Tricky interviews from many years ago where he very much downplays his experience of racism. In fact, he has been at pains to point out that he was ostracised as much by blacks as he was by whites and that because of this, he always felt like an outsider and that this made him the individual he is. At what point in his life did he realise that in fact he has been a victim of (white) racism and where was he living at the time? To the best of my knowledge, Tricky has lived outside of the U.K. for at least the last 10 years or so. Perhaps he realised that to speak about this was the only way to get the BBC to give him the exposure he apparently so desperately requires?
Bollox. He's mixed race, white mum black dad hence his experiences@@MisAnnThorpe
@@mojo2679 "He's mixed race, white mum black dad hence his experiences". Do you mean that he experienced racism at the hands of his white mum?
No@@MisAnnThorpe