Speech Debelle: Speech Therapy
THE second most interesting nominee, after Led Bib, won this year’s Mercury album-of-the-year prize.
South Londoner Speech Debelle’s debut Speech Therapy consists of an unrelenting flow of words delivered with life-or-death urgency and concerns, in the main, a troubled life.
As hip hop goes the music is pretty standard but her rapping definitely isn’t.
A worthy winner but she’ll need to watch the daft comments, such as the recent comparison of Michael Jackson to Jesus.
(Big Dada)
VERDICT: 3/5