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Arrested Development was formed in 1988 by rapper and producer Todd Thomas ("Speech") and turntablist Timothy Barnwell (known as Headliner).The group's debut album 3 Years, 5 Months and 2 Days in the Life Of... was the number-one album in the Village Voice ' s 1992 Pazz and Jop Critic's Poll [2] and in The Wire ' s 1992 Critic's choice. [3]
The accompanying music video was directed by Milcho Manchevski. A 2007 poll of VH1 viewers placed the song at number 71 on the list of the "Greatest Songs of the 90s" and is listed as one of the "500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll" by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It was also ranked number 78 on VH1's "100 Greatest Songs of Hip Hop".
3 Years, 5 Months and 2 Days in the Life Of... was released to widespread critical acclaim and was later voted as the best album of the year in The Village Voice's Pazz & Jop critics' poll. [ 2 ] [ 13 ] Entertainment Weekly's James Bernard gave the album an "A+" and praised it as a "fresh-sounding debut", referring to the group as "the anti ...
The song and Arrested Development as a whole are heavily referenced in a 2010 episode of the animated series The Venture Bros., where the character Henchman 21 talks to what he believes to be the ghost of his deceased friend Henchman 24 and a figure referred to as "Mr. Wendal" who looks like Arrested Development's spiritual advisor Baba Oje ...
Speech has expressed gratitude for the film's depiction of a "side" of Malcolm X which shares the perspective of Arrested Development. Spike Lee, the director of the film, had asked Speech to write a song for it. Speech considered it a personal responsibility to "acknowledge that there is a need for struggle, because of all the bad things going ...
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This song was the lead single from the album and was produced by member Speech.In the United States, the song peaked at number 45 on the Billboard Hot 100, number 44 on the Radio Songs, number 14 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, number 13 on both the R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay and the Rhythmic Airplay, number 4 on the Hot Rap Songs and number 5 on the Dance Singles Sales charts.
“Arrested Development” would become a beloved, canceled-too-soon series (which would then get revived on Netflix) and a connecting tissue between Mario Puzo’s Corleone family in “The ...