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At first glance, Speak! doesn’t look like your average rap star, but the Mexican Jewish artist is a rap star indeed—a wardrobe of retro/thrift store gear along with a great head of hair, his style is quite the opposite of a trendy, vanity slave artist. It’s almost hard not to acknowledge the luxurious beard which purposely and stylishly masks his bare identity. I first got word of Speak! while browsing RCRDLBL.com when they posted a free download of his single “Ya’ll Know” sometime in 2010. The track starts off “there he goes, there he goes running his mouth again at the finish line talkin’ shit cuz I got the win,” then goes on to call out “…bummy hoes, you knobby kneed pigeon toed, gold diggers with a runny nose. Cowboy boots and rips in your pantyhose. Never paid a bill cuz you spoiled by your daddy-o.” Since then, I’ve always been intrigued by Speak! because of his conscientious relationship with his music.
Speak! And I have been acquainted through social networks and he’s a guy who simply prefers his music to not be exploited—he’d rather be a “modest living creative than a rich slave”. Ironically Speak! doesn’t listen to much rap or hip-hop music—but he has close knit affiliations with artists such as Kreayshawn, Syd of OFWGKTA, Vince Staples, and Spaceghostpurpp. As far as Inside Out Boy, the album is full of references to drugs and bashes to commercial hip-hop/rap stars, groupies, ex-girlfriends, and gold-diggers. Sexual scenarios and innuendos you can only imagine, money, hipsters, hoes, heaven/hell, keeping it trill, and even LOVE are reoccurring themes in Inside Out Boy.
Some of my favorite tracks are “Remarkable”, “Do Dat Der”, “Whatever”, “Limbo” and “Pyrite and Rhinestones”.
Inside Out Boy features production from AFTA-1, The Super3, Left Brain, Alf Alfa, and Lord Botch….best part? IT’S FREE.

“I know exactly who & what I am…a fucking great rapper with a luxurious head of hair. I’m comfortable in my own skin & you mad cuz your not.” -@speakz

Exactly why I dig Speak!’s style….he really doesn’t give a fuck.

Download—Speak! Inside Out Boy
www.applebird.org
twitter: @speakz

xo,
DL

The most accurate write up ive come across…someone gets it and thats awesome.