MERCURY PRIZE WINNER: speech debelle feat micachu - better days

speech debelle feat micachu - better days


speech debelle - go then bye

[from national post:
Britain's top critical music prize has been awarded to Speech Debelle, a 26 year old rapper from South London.

Her album Speech Therapy was one of twelve shortlisted for the 2009 Mercury Prize, handed out tonight in London, besting albums by Kasabian, The Horrors, The Invisibles, Lisa Hannigan, Glasvegas and odd-on favourite Florence and the Machine.

Speech (real name Corynne Elliot) began rapping at the age of twelve, and lived in and out of hostels through her early twenties. Speech Therapy is her debut album, released this past June on Big Dada Records. ]