Labels:text | screenshot | font OCR: ability to churn out trip-hop songs. Tricky eschews the whole trip-hop concept, saying. "It's rubbish, because hip-hop from day one has been weird." Why is Tricky classified as trip-hop and not rap? The reason doesn't seem to lie in any major musical differences, it's all in the marketing. Trip-hop is another clever way of saying that an album is "alternative." Alternakids who would never admit to liking hip-hop will prattle on happily about how dope Massive Attack and Tricky are. digital culture stream EXIT