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Despite the overwrought production and excessive use of Auto-Tune and popish hooks that typifies the output of today's corporate rap elite, SpyrQ’s innate raw power can't be masked. My Back Against Tha Wall is considered one of the most powerful and hard hitting albums in a long time. The album serves as an antidote to the flood of insipid hip-hop/R&B combinations that clog the airwaves. Standout tracks include the Heavy Hitter "I‘m Back" and the dead-on "Steppin Stone." On first listen, Against Tha Wall most accessible song, "Trapped In Tha Pain," comes off as mindless radio fodder, but its blunt lyrics quickly grows on you. The album's centerpiece, "Give Me Guidance," is a genuinely personal composition built around a conversation with God. Here, SpyrQ’s lyrics and delivery invite the same favorable comparisons to DMX and Tupac that he received earlier in his career.

“My Back Against Tha Wall” is the Newest album from hip-hop purveyor SpyrQ. This album is one of the most powerful Hip-Hop albums in the indie scene in a long time. Born and raised out of Raleigh NC, Marcus Spears also known as SpyrQ pronounced “Spy-Roll” the Q physically symbolizes the O and the L in the name. The inspiration for the moniker came from the popular video game Spyro, in which a dragon has to help others of his kind. The specific application of the concept is that SpyrQ is out to help “those who have been through what I have been through.” He is out to change life with the power of his lyrics, SpyrQ explains, standing by the idea that a negative situation can be transformed into positive. “My Back Against Tha Wall” and such outstanding tracks as “Trapped In Tha Pain” and “Steppin Stone” show off the pain in his lyrics, and the emotion in his hooks that drive his music. Aggressive, lean and direct, SpyrQ’s music and lyrics thrive on pride, self-empowerment and determination. His versatility is on full display as he shifts from such aggro-powerhouses

as the aforementioned tracks and such passionate tracks as “Give Me Guidance.” SpyrQ began his rapping career in 1998. Following the disbanding of his former group, The R.O.D.S. (Rydin Off Da Struggle), he set out to be the master of his own musical destiny, acquiring his own studio and forming his own label, Street Souljahz Inc., which he has owned since the age of 16. In 2004, he connected with A-Ca$h, Two Tyme Records’ founder and ex-Street Souljahz Inc. member and decided to put A-Ca$h on his promo “Firestarttah.” That release became a big hit in the indie scene. His next success sprang from bringing hip-hop act The Regiment on board with Street Souljahz Inc. Rapper Tha Savage also joined the roster. He subsequently changed the label name to Records to Street Souljahz Ent. Besides his 2004 promo Firestarttah” and his newest “My Back Against Tha Wall,” SpyrQ has released “Feel My Pain, Hear My Hunger,” Itz My Tyme 2 Shyne,” “Speak If You Want To Be Heart: Tha Poetry Segment” (a demonstration of his poetry skills) “A Menace II Tha Industry,” a mixtape and the prequel “A Menace II Tha Industry: Reloaded.” SpyrQ records, produces, and mixes all of his own music. He began rapping at the age of 11, honing his craft on a karaoke machine and at talent shows, and started his label at the age of 16. He is currently working with A&R Select, the world’s largest independent artist development firm, based out of Los Angeles, CA. More information is available by visiting www.streetsouljahzent.com www.myspace.com/streetsouljahzinc and www.arselect.com.