Throughout his work, Tricky blurs the normally clear sexual definitions found within hip hop.

Simmons joined Kid Rock's 2008 Rock N Roll Revival Tour, performing " It's Like That ", " It's Tricky ", " You Be Illin '", " Run's House ", " Here We Go ", " King of Rock " and " Walk This Way " with Kid Rock.

The Wild Bunch signed a record deal and evolved into Massive Attack, a core collective of 3D, Mushroom and Daddy G, with significant contributions from Tricky Kid ( soon shortened to Tricky ) and Hooper on production duties, along with a rotating cast of other vocalists.

After the success of Massive Attack, Portishead and Tricky albums in 1994 and 1995, a new generation of trip hop artists emerged with a more standardized sound.

Tricky often features vocally in his own productions and Chris Corner provided vocals for late albums with his group Sneaker Pimps.

The album was a massive success and Tricky was catapulted to international fame, something he was notably uncomfortable with.

Tricky was able to do so much with his music by incorporating different musical genres in his sound, but ultimately making sure he made the overall product his own.

In 2001 Tricky appeared on the Thirteen Ghosts soundtrack with the song " Excess " which ( briefly ) features Alanis Morissette during two of the choruses.

By the time Pre-Millennium Tension was released, Tricky was increasingly irritated with the press, particularly articles written in The Face magazine.

Tricky has guest starred on a number of albums, including a notable appearance on Live's fifth studio album, V. This appearance came as Tricky and Live's lead singer Ed Kowalczyk had developed a close friendship, with Kowalczyk contributing vocals to ' Evolution Revolution Love ', a track on Tricky's album Blowback.

In an interview with The Skinny in July 2008, Tricky mentioned that it was the first time that he had decided to let someone co-produce an album with him, the person in question being Bernard Butler, ex-Suede guitarist.

Less than enamoured with Butler's technical prowess, Tricky finished by totally re-recording all of the material.

As a dance music artist, Ono has worked with re-mixers / producers such as Basement Jaxx, Pet Shop Boys, Cat Power, Bill Kates, Tricky, Thurston Moore, Keiji Haino, Nick Vernier Band, Cibo Matto, Billy Martin, DJ Spooky, Apples In Stereo, Damien Price, The Flaming Lips, DJ Chernobyl, Bimbo Jones, DJ Dan, Craig Armstrong, Jorge Artajo, Shuji Nabara, and Konrad Behr, among others.

He often composed specifically for the style and skills of these individuals, such as " Jeep's Blues " for Johnny Hodges, " Concerto for Cootie " for Cootie Williams, which later became " Do Nothing Till You Hear from Me " with Bob Russell's lyrics, and " The Mooche " for Tricky Sam Nanton and Bubber Miley.

In 1932, Ellington repeated the experiment in one of his versions of " The Mooche ", with Baby Cox singing scat after a muted similar trombone solo by Tricky Sam Nanton.

The more abstract Autechre and Aphex Twin around this time were releasing early records in the " intelligent techno " or so-called intelligent dance music ( IDM ) style, while other Bristol-based musicians such as Tricky, Leftfield, Massive Attack and Portishead were experimenting with the fusion of electronic textures with hip-hop, R & B rhythms to form what became known as trip-hop.

* Sauria — A planet in the video game Star Fox Adventures, where Fox McCloud meets Krystal ; revisited in Star Fox: Assault, where Fox and Krystal meet up with a fully-grown Prince Tricky after Team Star Fox clears the area of the Aparoid menace.

* Trip hop artist Tricky released an album named Angels with Dirty Faces.

This led to greater commercial success ; by its fifth release the label had its first Top 20 chart entry with LFO and their eponymous single, " LFO ", which sold 130, 000 copies and peaked at # 12 in the UK Singles Chart in July 1990 ; by coincidence, that same month another Warp act, Tricky Disco, reached # 14 in the UK chart with another eponymous single, " Tricky Disco ".

In " Tricky Ricardo ", Ricardo Amino works Strepfinger, who was planning to steal some powerful chemicals to make a huge batch of prothymosin, alpha, which promotes the growth of tumors, but in the end, Strepfinger gets stuck on one of the cotton balls and fell down the drain of the shower.

Laid Back's next two albums, Play It Straight ( 1985 ) and See You in the Lobby ( 1987 ), and singles such as " Abu Dhabi " and " Tricky Kind of Thing ", were released to little fanfare and limited chart success.

Tricky also released his debut solo album, Maxinquaye, in 1995-to great critical acclaim.

Tricky left Massive Attack to release his debut album, Maxinquaye.

In fact, the Maxinquaye album review by the Rolling Stone magazine read, " Tricky devoured everything from American hip-hop and soul to reggae and the more melancholic strains of 80s British rock.

Tricky failed to complete a number of lyrics for the Massive Attack album Protection and gave the band some of the lyrics he had written for Maxinquaye instead.

The Face had been an early champion of Maxinquaye, but saw Tricky as more a duo than a solo project.

* " Aftermath ", by Tricky from Maxinquaye

He and fellow band member, trombonist Joe " Tricky Sam " Nanton, created the " Wah-wah " sound that characterized Ellington's early Jungle Music style.

The musician Tricky was a member of the The Wild Bunch sound system and a contributor to Massive Attack's first two albums.

It was their work together as much as their individual talents that earned Tricky Sam Nanton and Bubber Miley their place as the first musicians widely recognized for their plunger sounds and styles.

In June 2006, Chill bid for its first analogue licence, for Bristol, citing the city's record in producing trip-hop artists such as Massive Attack, Portishead and Tricky in support of its application.

lang, Joni Mitchell, Meshell Ndegeocello, Pearl Jam, Terence Trent D ' arby, Lisa Germano, Lisa Marie Presley, Liz Phair, Michael Penn, Grace Jones, Tricky, The Three O ' Clock, Uh Huh Her, Sheryl Crow, Victoria Williams, Rob Thomas, Gwen Stefani, Skye Edwards, Scritti Politti, Nerina Pallot, OK Go, Madonna, The Like, Nina Gordon, fDeluxe, The Family, Doyle Bramhall II, Nikka Costa, Andre Cymone, Kate Earl, Eric Clapton, Bettye LaVette and more and vocals on the soundtrack for Toys and their first scoring work, for Dangerous Minds.

Tricky opened his second album Nearly God by a version of " Tattoo ", a pre-trip-hop song of Siouxsie and the Banshees.

During an interview on 1 July 2010, Tricky stated that his new album, titled Mixed Race, was scheduled for release on 27 September 2010.

* Original Sin ( 2010 ) INXS album featuring Tricky on " Mediate ".

* Mediate: The Ralphi Rosario Remixes ( 2011 ) Ralphi Rosario remix album of the INXS song " Mediate " featuring Tricky.

* Blowback ( album )-a 2001 release by rapper Tricky

The album features vocals from Jane's Addiction vocalist Perry Farrell on " Time of Your Life " and Shifty Shellshock of Los Angeles rock and rap band Crazy Town on " Starry Eyed Surprise "; Ice Cube on " Get Em Up "; and Tricky and Nelly Furtado on " The Harder They Come ".

track " It's Tricky " from their 1986 album Raising Hell.

When working on the album, Moore worked with producers such as Babyface, Kandi Burruss and Tricky Stewart.

* Vulnerable ( Tricky album ), 2003

The album was once rumored to include work by Missy Elliott as well as tracks produced by T-Pain, and Tricky.

In an August 2010, co-executor of the Michael Jackson estate, John Branca, confirmed that a posthumous album of Michael Jackson would be released, containing work done in the previous five years with producers Neff-U, Christopher " Tricky " Stewart and Riley himself, as well as work written and produced solely by Jackson himself.

* " Excess ", a song by Tricky from the album Blowback

Deodato had previously worked on Björk's song " Isobel ", making a mix which was later released on her album Telegram, produced by Björk, Nellee Hooper, Tricky, Howie B. and Deodato himself.