Tricky - Makes Me Wanna Die

What this video is

Released in April 1997 as a single from Tricky's second album Pre-Millennium Tension (Island Records, 1996), the video arrives at a high-water mark of British experimental music. The track samples Eric B. & Rakim's 'To the Listeners,' fusing Bristol trip-hop with New York hip-hop's roots and embodying Tricky's intentional move away from the 'trip-hop' label toward something rawer and more confrontational.…

Why it matters

A key artefact of mid-90s trip-hop at its most artistically ambitious. The Sigismondi-Tricky collaboration demonstrates the genre's capacity to absorb industrial, punk, and avant-garde visual art traditions. Alongside contemporaneous videos for Portishead and Massive Attack, this clip helped…

The director

Italian-Canadian director and photographer (born 1965, Pescara, Italy; raised in Hamilton, Ontario). Studied at Ontario College of Art & Design, graduating with a photography major. Transitioned from fashion photography into music video direction via The…