Arrested Development is a Grammy Award winning American alternative hip hop group, founded by Speech and Headliner as a positive alternative to the rap popular in the early 1990s.
It took the group over three years to be offered a record deal. Arrested Development had already been offered a single deal for the song "Tennessee"; hence the name of the first album was 3 Years, 5 Months & 2 Days in the Life Of..., which produced several hit tracks including "Tennessee", "People Everyday", and "Mr. Wendal", which hit the Top Ten. The group won a Grammy Award for Best New Artist, and were also named Band of the Year by Rolling Stone magazine.
In the early 1990s, the group was approached by film director Spike Lee to compose a song for his upcoming biopic on the life of Malcolm X. The group then recorded "Revolution", which appeared on the oldies-dominated soundtrack for the film, as well as the second half of its closing credits when the film was released in 1992.
Their 1994 follow-up Zingalamaduni, which did very well with some critics but was panned by many others, sold poorly. After the group broke up due to "creative differences" in 1996, Speech released a solo album, but sales were poor. The group reunited in 2000 (without Headliner) and has been touring and releasing records via Speech's Vagabond Productions and Speech Music.
In November 2003, the group sued the FOX network over their TV show Arrested Development. The suit is referenced in the Arrested Development episodes Public Relations and Motherboy XXX.
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