Baligaga

Album: Knowle West Boy (2008)
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Songfacts®:

  • Tricky explained on his record label's website that the reggae vocalist on this track is "my boy Rodigan from New York… one of the guys I hung out with in The Bronx. Seven years we've been friends, and he inspires me."
  • 'Baligaga' is a word that Tricky made up. It doesn't really mean anything.

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