The traffic light flickered from red to green, then British rapper Speech Debelle pressed down softly on the gas and continued her drive home. It had been less than a week since she released her third album Tantil Before I Breathe, but as she crawled through the battered back roads of Barking that lined the edges of east London, she seemed no more excited or animated than usual.An American podcast babbled on in the background. She steered the silver hatchback down the blank empty streets, and the steep rows of tower blocks and low-rises that distinguish this small, dormitory town, became a soft blur in her passenger window. The roads were slippery and wet and grey tones smudged the horizon like volcanic ash. Despite the mist, it was mild out. The conflicting climate stirred Debelle's memories of Gran Canaria, where she had recently been on a short break. Now 34, Speech had reasoned that for the sake of her mental, physical and spiritual health, it was neither smart nor healthy to burn herself out with the constant motion of a vigorous launch week. So her flight departed the day Tantil dropped, the week of her birthday."It's different for me now," she said, still driving. "It's… it's… this is a young person's game… not a young person's game… a new person's game; when you're new and you've got the glow there's a level of excitement about what could happen. But me? I'm three albums in this ting, there's not really a wonder about what Speech is going to do."Read more on Noisey.