Speech Defect is a hip hop group from Sweden. Their style can be distinguished by clear influences from funk, soul and hip hop. They have released a series of vinyl singles and three full length CD albums. They had their biggest sales success in countries such as Japan, Australia and the UK. Speech Defect have toured with groups as Ugly Duckling, Pigeon John and Breakestra. They did their first tour outside Europe during the spring 2007 and went to USA and Japan.