Speech of Arrested Development looks back on 30 years of rap: making a breakthrough album, writing 'Tennessee' and the alternative hip-hop backlash.
It's been 30 years since Arrested Development dropped their Grammy-winning, multi-platinum breakthrough,"3 Years, 5 Months and 2 Days in the Life Of ..."
But those same ideals inform their music to this day, as recently as last year's"For the Love," which opens with a song that asks,"When the hard stuff comes, will I rise up, can I handle it?"In a Zoom call from his studio in advance of their appearance Saturday, Sept. 24, at Sedona's VortiFest, Speech reflects on the lyrical thread that ties their work together."There's a through line of motivation. Of consciousness.
"We sort of got tagged as alternative hip-hop," he says."What that implies is that it's 'hip-hop,' but it's sort of an alternative to hip-hop. And for us, that wasn't enough because we never felt like we were trying to be a literal alternative to hip-hop.""We were being an alternative to the negative lyrics of literally talking about killing each other," he says.
"I can't explain how horrible things were. And that song was a representation of the last time I saw both of them. In Tennessee. My brother was at my grandmother's funeral. And when I wrote the song, the lyrics just poured out of me, almost like a freestyle." "First of all, I thought the song was powerful," he says. "I also thought it was a great song to introduce this kind of group.
"You know, big butts and talking about the ghetto and we got slang and we're dancing well," he says."That's all good. That's entertainment. It's fun.""Because for white America, there's nothing real about that," Speech explains. "To them, the guy with the gun and the drug-dealer thing is just a little peer into a world most of them don't understand too much. It's cute.
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