Biography

Offering a rootsier take on the Native Tongues aesthetic, Atlanta's Arrested Development made waves in the early 1990s with its Afrocentric, musically diverse approach to hip-hop. With group leader Speech front and center, the collective's debut album, 3 YEARS, 5 MONTHS & 2 DAYS IN THE LIFE OF..., generated several hits and won two Grammys. The band continued to release albums into the 2000s, but the popularity of gangsta rap, the very antithesis of AD's sound, kept them out of the charts.

Top Tracks

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• Ache'n For Acres

• Ease My Mind

• Fishin' 4 Religion

• I Know I'm Bad

• Miracles

• Mr. Landlord

• Mr. Wendal

• People Everyday

• Raining Revolution

• Revolution

• Stand

• Sunshine

• Tennesse

• Tennessee

Discography

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• Since the Last Time

  Vagab

  2006

• Zingalamaduni

  Chrysalis Records

  1994

• Unplugged

  Chrysalis Records

  1993

• 3 Years, 5 Months & 2 Days in the Life Of...

  Chrysalis Records

  1992