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Tricky's road to Paris started a year ago with a return home, to the hardscrabble Knowle West district of Bristol, England. That trip led to the release of his latest album, Knowle West Boy, a fusion of Britpop and hip-hop that Rolling Stone calls "Tricky's best since his 1995 debut Maxinquaye". For the 41-year-old artist, that journey home was a chance to take stock. "You can't just keep moving forward, you have to look backwards sometimes," Tricky tells TIME. Revisiting his own difficult childhood, Tricky found himself wanting to "talk for kids growing...
...provide him with studio space for a residence alongside other artists' ateliers at the new complex, Tricky saw the chance to take a break from recording and try his hand at producing. Four weeks and dozens of tracks later, Tricky's new beginning has led to an entire new album, planned for release this summer. The project's success is largely thanks to Amadou "H2-zoo" Ndiaye, a lanky 29-year-old whose young companions have nicknamed "big brother" and "deux-mètres," both for his imposing stature and the watchful eye he keeps over them. Just over...
Other artists - from a Tunisian folk singer to a classical guitarist - have contributed to some of the tracks, but Ndiaye and his gang define the album's tone. "I can't understand a word Amadou says," Tricky admits. "But when he was rapping, he made me feel like he was saying, 'Can't you see us?' That was his vibe, and that's what I called the album." Tricky's intuition is right: on a track with the working title "Afrique," Ndiaye scream-raps "Mes frères ont souffert, bordel de merde! (My brothers have suffered, goddammit)" over...
Whether or not the album will bring fame to any of the residents of Flandres remains to be seen. But for Ndiaye, a new beginning already seems possible. "What Tricky gave me, and all the little ones from the cité, is huge," he says. "He gave us energy, he was, like, 'Get up and move, it's time.' And even when he's gone, we're going to keep moving...
...Voletta Wallace comes to grips with the death of her son, Christopher. “I find solace in knowing that he became a man and he was ready to live,” she says in a voiceover. The narration puns on the name of the debut album that Christopher—better known as The Notorious B.I.G.—recorded in 1994, entitled “Ready to Die.” The LP awakened East Coast rap from a protracted hibernation and established one of the genre’s most vital lyricists...