Abbiamo deciso di tornare su una polemica infinita (o infinità come la definirebbe Cristiano Godano), una querelle che affonda le sue radici negli anni delle medie e che tutt'ora appare lontana da una conclusione:

 meglio Tricky o i 24 Grana?  

Per tentare di venirne a capo ci serviremo di importanti collaboratori e di diversi criteri di analisi. Come prima cosa abbiamo chiesto al Professor Roberto Vecchioni di analizzare per noi il tessuto sonoro dei brani più significativi dei due artisti. S'inizia con Hell is around the corner:

I stand firm for a soil
I lick a rock off foil
So reduce me, seduce me,
Dress me up in Stussy.
Hell is round the corner where I shelter.
Isms and schisms, we're living on a skelter
If you believe I'll deceive common sense says you are thief
Let me take you down the corridors of my life.

And when you walk, do you walk to your preference
No need to answer 'till... I take further evidence.
I seem to need a reference to get residence
A reference to your preference to say,
I'm a good neighbour, I trudge,
So judge me for my labour,
Lobotomy ensures my good behavior
The constant struggle ensures my insanity.
Passing the indifference ensures the struggle for my family
We're hungry, beware of our appetite.
Distant drums bring the news of a kill tonight.
The kill which I share with my passengers.
We take our fill, take a feel.

[I stand firm for a soil
I lick a rock off foil
So reduce me, seduce me,
Dress me up in Stussy.]
Confused by different memories,
Details of Asian remedies
Conversations, of what's become of enemies.
My brain thinks bomb-like,
So I listen he's a calm type.
As I grow
And as I grow, I grow collective.
Before the move sit on the perspective.
Mr. Quail's in the crevice
And watches from the precipice.
Imperial passage.
Heat from the sun someday slowly passes,
Until then, you have to live with yourself