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Speaker Knockerz

Derek McAllister Jr. (November 6, 1994 – March 4, 2014), better known as his stage name Speaker Knockerz, was a rapper and record producer who resided from Columbia, South Carolina. Speaker Knockerz would begin his first years of his life in New York, however his mother made the decision to move to South Carolina to avoid the unhealthy environment, alongside his father serving 10 years in prison at the time. While in South Carolina, the aspiring rapper would develop the passion for music and the creation behind it. With his dad also being a rapper himself, he would help out his son with the making of Speaker Knockerz’s first mixtape, Flight Delayed, released on November 30, 2010. At the young age of 13, Speaker Knockerz started using Fruity Loops after had seen a video of rapper Soulja Boy doing the same. Throughout 2010 and 2011, Speaker Knockerz would sell his first beat to a Miami rapper for $50 and would end up using the money to buy an affordable pair of speakers for his studio. He would go on to produce for a wide variety of rappers. such as Gucci Mane, Young Scooter, French Montana, and more. In Spring 2012, Speaker Knockerz would begin rapping under the current moniker as a means to promote his record production. Throughout April and July 2013, Speaker Knockerz would release his second and third mixtapes, Married to the Money and Finesse Father. In September of 2023, Speaker Knockerz would soon to become famous through YouTube as a result of his “Rico Story” trilogy. On December 10, 2013, Speaker Knockerz would go on to release his most popular track, “Lonely.” The release of “Lonely” would immediately give Speaker Knockerz the mainstream attention he deserved, as people would start to promote his music through social media platforms, primarily Vine at the time. Unfortunately for Speaker Knockerz, on March 6, 2014, his life would be cut very short, as he would be found dead, unresponsive in his garage home in South Carolina at the young age of 19. The legacy that Speaker Knockerz left would have a major impact in today’s Hip-Hop scene, as artists such as Kodak Black, Lil Uzi Vert, Denzel Curry, Roddy Ricch, Kevin Gates, and many more would be influenced from Speaker Knockerz from a series of tribute remixes released and the influence of the production, setting the groundwork for today’s Hip-Hop scene. On September 2, 2014, his fourth and final mixtape, Married to the Money II, a sequel to his April 2013 mixtape, was released posthumously. Ten years after the death of Speaker Knockerz, it was announced through social media that a new unreleased project titled The Goat would be released on March 15, 2024. Upon it’s release, it was met with very negative reviews from fans, as they speculated that the album was nothing more than a cash grab from the label, releasing unfinished instrumentals from the vault with no new vocals, alongside criticizing the track selections.

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