Arrested Development is an Afrocentric Hip-Hop group, founded by Speech and… Read Full Bio ↴Arrested Development is an Afrocentric Hip-Hop group, founded by Speech and Headliner as a positive, alternative to the gangsta rap popular in the early 1990s.
It took the group three years, five months and two days to be offered a record deal. Hence the name of the first album was 3 Years, 5 Months & 2 Days in the Life Of..., which produced several hit tracks. These included "Tennessee", "People Everyday", and "Mr. Wendal", which hit the top ten. The group won a Grammy Award for Best Rap Album and Best New Artist, and were also Band of the Year by Rolling Stone magazine. 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 in 1996, Speech released a solo album, but sales were poor. The group reunited in 2000 (sans Headliner) and has been touring and releasing records via Speech's Vagabond Productions and Speech Music. While Arrested Development has struggled to regain a following in the U.S., they have met moderate, consistent success in Japan.
Although she was never an official member of the band (and frequently clashed with Speech), the haunting voice behind "Tennessee", Dionne Farris, released a successful solo album in 1994, Wild Seed-Wild Flower. The album spawned the hit single, "I Know".
In November 2003, the group sued the FOX network over their TV show Arrested Development. The suit is referenced in the Arrested Development episode "Motherboy XXX."
In June 2005, the group won the first round of NBC's television series contest Hit Me Baby One More Time, performing "Tennessee" and covering Los Lonely Boys' "Heaven."
Baba Oje died in October 2018, aged 87.
It took the group three years, five months and two days to be offered a record deal. Hence the name of the first album was 3 Years, 5 Months & 2 Days in the Life Of..., which produced several hit tracks. These included "Tennessee", "People Everyday", and "Mr. Wendal", which hit the top ten. The group won a Grammy Award for Best Rap Album and Best New Artist, and were also Band of the Year by Rolling Stone magazine. 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 in 1996, Speech released a solo album, but sales were poor. The group reunited in 2000 (sans Headliner) and has been touring and releasing records via Speech's Vagabond Productions and Speech Music. While Arrested Development has struggled to regain a following in the U.S., they have met moderate, consistent success in Japan.
Although she was never an official member of the band (and frequently clashed with Speech), the haunting voice behind "Tennessee", Dionne Farris, released a successful solo album in 1994, Wild Seed-Wild Flower. The album spawned the hit single, "I Know".
In November 2003, the group sued the FOX network over their TV show Arrested Development. The suit is referenced in the Arrested Development episode "Motherboy XXX."
In June 2005, the group won the first round of NBC's television series contest Hit Me Baby One More Time, performing "Tennessee" and covering Los Lonely Boys' "Heaven."
Baba Oje died in October 2018, aged 87.
People Every Day
Arrested Development Lyrics
We have lyrics for these tracks by Arrested Development:
Ache'n For Acres Yes, indeedy sho' 'nuff needy I got the feeling to stretch…
Africa's Inside Me Universal as I stroll down the street Africas's a bolling ov…
Blues Happy Hey, yes indeed, this is Speech from Arrested Development I…
Children Play With Earth Ok The way kids are living is 100 percent European African b…
Conditional Love I was workin' at Franklins field picking cotton picking gree…
Dawn Of The Dreads Yo man, hit me with one of those funky baselines One…
Ease My Mind I need some time to ease my mind. I need some…
Ease My Mind (Radio Version) I need some time to ease my mind Thrusted in a…
Everyday People See I was resting at the park minding my own Business…
Fountain of Youth Taking a bath within the sun rays Letting the aura of…
Give A Man A Fish Lately I've been in a life like limbo Looking out of…
Honeymoon [CHORUS] Girl just take off yo socks Let me lick on…
Honeymoon Day Girl just take off yo socks Let me lick on…
I'm Ignoring You Ya... I′m not in the front... She makes me be like... I…
In Tha South In Tha South Speech In the south is where it's at …
In The Sunshine People of the world we live in Don't let no one…
Kneelin' At My Altar Another morning kneelin' at my altar the day is faced with…
Let Your Voice Be Heard (1 Love) Ich habe eine Verbindung mit all meinen Handys Auch…
Luxury Lonely, Lonely, Oh Woe Is Me Oh Owe is me I…
Mama's Always On Stage Brand new mama, I understand It's hard as hell being a…
Man Lately I've been in a life like limbo Looking out of…
Man's Final Frontier Ladies and gentlemen, there are seven acknowledged wonders o…
Mister Landlord Mister landlord step off my yard Mister landlord step off my…
Mr Wendal Here, have a dollar In fact, no brotherman here, have two Tw…
Mr Wendall Here, have a dollar In fact, no brotherman here, have two …
Mr. Wendal Here, have a dollar In fact, no brotherman here, have two Tw…
Mr. Wendel Here, have a dollar, In fact, no brother-man here, have two…
Mr. Wendell Here, have a dollar, in fact now brotherman, here have…
Music & Life Lonely, lonely, oh woe is me Oh owe is me I…
Natural I'm checking you out, you're all alone No one is clocking…
On Conscious Yo, this tangled web we weave, you know I'm sayin' We…
People See I was resting at the park minding my own Business…
Praisin' U Living I've got to do what I got to do I know…
Pride My skin could never no curse, no it can't I wear…
Raining Revolution This is Headliner from Arrested Development, and I come here…
Renee Lord I've really been real stressed Down and out, losin gro…
Revolution This is Headliner from Arrested Development, and I come here…
Shell Just a shell until you decide to rebel Just a shell…
Since The Last Time It's been years since we blessed stages Together, we covere…
Tennesse Lord, I've really been real stressed, down and out, losing…
The Gettin' Aw yeah What I like the brothers and sisters In the audience…
Time It's been years since we blessed stages Together, we covere…
U You can do it, hey You can do it baby Don't you…
United Front The great depression everyone is in depression No one knows …
United Minds United minds of America Make your vocal chords reach the clo…
Wag Your Tail (Welcome to Bimbos, may I take your order) Yeah, can I…
Warm Sentiments I've feel cheated used, abused, misused.. Used, feeling the …
Washed Away Pebble by pebble Sand grain by sand grain Shore turns to sea…
WMFW FM It is now 6:30 in the a.m This is Baba Oje…
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Lyrics
People
Right about this time, stay loose
Cool, chilled licks by one called, Arrested Development
Say, come on, selectah, easy
See, I was resting at the park minding my own
Business as I kick up the treble tone
On my radio tape player box, right?
Just loud enough so folks could hear it's hype, see?
Outta nowhere comes the woman I'm dating
Investigation, maybe she was demonstrating
But nevertheless I was pleased
My day was going great and my soul was at ease
Until a group of brothers started buggin' out
Drinkin' the 40 oz, going the nigga route
Disrespecting my black queen
Holding their crotches and being obscene
At first I ignored 'em 'cause, see, I know their type
They got drunk and got guns and they wanna fight
And they see a young couple having a time that's good
And their egos wanna test a brother's manhood
So they came to test Speech 'cause of my hairdo
And the loud bright colors that I wear
I was a target 'cause I'm a fashion misfit
And the outfit that I'm wearing, brothers dissin' it
Well I stay calm and pray the niggas leave me be
But they're squeezing parts of my date's anatomy
Why, Lord, do brothers have to drill me?
'Cause if I start to hit this man they'll have to kill me! See?
I am everyday people
You see, I am everyday people
I told the niggas, "Please let us pass, friend"
I said "Please", 'cause I don't like killing Africans
But he wouldn't stop and I ain't Ice Cube
But I had to take the brother out for being rude
And like I said before, I was mad by then
It took three or four cops to pull me off of him
But that's the story y'all of a black man
Acting like a nigga and get stomped by an African
You see
I am everyday people (everyday, yeah)
You see, I am everyday people
The moral of the story is
You better look very hard at who you step into
'Cause you might get killed, or shot, and it's not worth it
Africans need to be loving each other, and unite
Dustin
Some songs age gracefully and this one will never get old.
Duke Nicholson
The enemy would have to KILL US ALL.........#eternalx
Dany Seevraz
AGREE...It's a mood booster
Dustin
@Dany Seevraz for sure I love this one.
Hershel Fowler
TIMELESS
ATOMIC-HUSKY
AMEN to that🙏🏾
Champ LION
I usually don’t comment but I just had to. This was a child gold memory for me. It took me ages to find this song and today I finally found it, tears to my eyes🥲. I feel like child again and I’m 33 years old dude. I’ll end it here, I can’t describe how the memory was great in the 90’s. Thank you so much!
Steven Mackie
I tear up whenever I hear the chorus. It reminds me of back when I was 9-11 years old out at the park in the summertime.
cornel stamate
times have changed
GenEx
Same, I was a teen when this came out