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In a recent interview with Stool Pigeon, Bristolian trip-hop émigré Tricky shed some light on why everyone who used to be associated with Massive Attack has fallen out with the group – which is once again comprised of Robert “3D” Del Naja and Daddy G (who was absent on previous album 100th Window).
“It’s 3D. The only guy left in Massive Attack now is 3D. He’s always wanted to be a pop star and The Wild Bunch weren’t like that. Shara Nelson wrote some of them songs and it would have been good for them to keep doing singles with her. But 3D got threatened, thinking she’s gonna take over the band. She got fucked over. Mushroom got pushed out. 3D’s very ambitious. He’s a control freak. He wants to be a superstar. I ain’t got no beef with 3D ‘cos I left of my own accord. But I could totally see what was happenin’.”
“As soon as Shara blew up on that single, he was threatened by that. She was still on wages. That’s why he’s the only one left. Originally, 3D was brought in by [founding member] Miles [Johnson]. He was a kid that used to hang out with them and try to get in the band. He loved The Wild Bunch and used to do graffiti and stuff. All of a sudden he was in the band. And then his ambition took over the band. So really he’s left on his own. But I don’t know if that can be a great life. He had all his mates around him making music, and now he’s by himself. Pretty depressing, in a way.”
He was speaking in the run up to the release of his new album Knowle West Boy, which features a couple of tracks co-produced by Switch – with whom it took Tricky a while to see eye to eye with. “He’s a good guy, but he’d listen to these tracks with live drums and say, ‘Do you want me to change these to electronic sounds?’ And I’d say ‘Why would I want to do that?’ People have a perception of me that I’m the Electronic Kid or something. But I wanted live sounds.”
“I’m not a dance artist. So then he started to understand what I was sayin’. He probably didn’t think I was right, but that’s his world – the clubs. And I don’t give a shit if the play my music in clubs. And he was like, ‘But your fanbase....’ and I was like ‘I don’t care about my fanbase. If I make an album I like, my fanbase’ll like it.’
The album is out on Domino on July 7th.
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