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Rapper Tricky: Trip hop legend on his unlikely rise to success - BBC Newsnight

Rapper Tricky: Trip hop legend on his unlikely rise to success - BBC Newsnight

Update: 2019-11-01
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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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Rapper Tricky: Trip hop legend on his unlikely rise to success - BBC Newsnight

Rapper Tricky: Trip hop legend on his unlikely rise to success - BBC Newsnight

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