MarQ Spekt is known at home and abroad as the primary purveyor of all things ‘grilchy’ — a portmanteau built from the words ‘grimy’ and ‘filthy’ — and yet the “SumOfItsParts” video, with its razor-sharp rotoscoping and resort aesthetic, seems to convey anything but grime or filth. To reconcile this apparent incongruity, please refer to the following block quote, in which Spekt expounds on the grilchy:
Grilchy is like my style, the people around me’s style. It’s grimy and filthy. Even when we clean, we still do grilchy shit. When you go to a bar and you see a chick that’s with her man and you end up bagging her and walking out, that’s grilchy. And that’s happened in real life. We used to go in spots like stores and shit and get whatever we wanted to get, that’s grilchy. The rhyme style, when [you] scrunch your face up off of some shit somebody said in their rhymes, that’s grilchy. It’s the whole persona, but at the same time, it’s not looking grilchy. You not looking like a bum where you got dirty shit on you. You supposed to be kind of sharp, dress kind of sharp. But your mind state, what you do is grilchy [emphasis mine].
And to read about MarQ Spekt and Blockhead’s new album, which was released July 29, please refer to this Blockhead quote: “It’s called “Justplaywitit” [italics mine] and … I’m really excited for y’all to peep it. Definitely something different from both Spekt and myself.” Peep it via Block’s Phat Friend.
• MarQ Spekt: https://twitter.com/marQspekt
• Blockhead: http://blockheadmusic.com/
• HipNOTT Records: http://www.hipnottrecords.com/
