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Tricky

Tom Doyle, Q, June 1998

Demonised by the media, deified by the art set, the real Tricky still struggles to be heard above the hubbub. Q parts a curtain of spliff smoke to find a cackling rap Wurzel behind the mask of evil blues-hop auteur. A case of better the devil you don't know.

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