Tricksta

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Tricksta is a hip hop artist from Wolverhampton. He is the founder of UK hip hop label Wolftown Recordings. He began his hip-hop career in 1989 as a DJ on Birmingham pirate radio station Fantasy 98.6 FM. In 1995 he started working for a group of independent record companies where he ran a number of labels doing management, A&R and promotions, and production, and after a number of releases began DJing internationally.

In 1997 Tricksta joined with fellow Wolverhampton artist Late and started sketching plans for their act Villains, their magazine Rago and the Wolftown Recordings label, which in 1999 landed a distribution deal with Pinnacle Entertainment.

In 2001 Tricksta founded the UK hip hop mixtape series UK Runnings.

Tricksta has produced albums and tracks for artists such as Vicious Circle, Wolftown Committee, Late, Pitbull, K-Rino, Wreckonize, Garcia, Noreaga, Nut Rageous, K9, B-Sharp, Café, Creamo and Tuberculosis.

Recently, Tricksta was head-hunted by PR company Park Street PR to be head of their hip hop division.

1 Discography
- 1.1 Albums, EPs and singles
- 1.2 Mixtapes
2 External links

[edit] Discography

[edit] Albums, EPs and singles

Villains - UK Sound (1999) (Wolftown Recordings)
Villains - Welcome To Wolftown (2000) (Wolftown Recordings)
Vicious Circle - Bagged Out (2001) (Wolftown Recordings)
Wolftown Committee - Artform Technique/Could It Be (2002) (Wolftown Recordings)
Wolftown Committee - Legendary Status (2003) (Wolftown Recordings)
Late - International Rhyme Spittin EP (2003) (Wolftown Recordings)