e A Tribe Called Quest News: Nick Hasted: Grim experiences give inspiration for the 'hip-hop Tracy Chapman' (Independent)
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Speech Debelle told her producer Wayne 'Lotek Hifi' Bennett to make her sound like a 'hip-hop Tracy Chapman'. For better and worse he succeeded. The 26-year-old south Londoner's debut Speech Therapy is a rap album rooted in the genre's respectable, conscious traditions – the lineage typified in the 1990s by A Tribe Called Quest, Mos Def, Common and Arrested Development.