Kicking off Season 4 of The 212 Podcast, Dan Mariner chats with the incomparable, Speech.
He is the leader of the 2x Grammy Award-winning hip-hop collective, Arrested Development. He and the group have been a ground-breaking force in Hip-hop culture since 91. Their debut album, “3 Years, 5 Months and 2 Days in the Life of...” sold over 6 million albums, earned them two Grammy awards for Best New Artist and Best Rap Single (Tennessee), 2 MTV awards, (People every day), a Soul Train Music Award, and the coveted NAACP Image Award. Rolling Stone magazine named them Band of The Year, while VH-1 named them one of the greatest Hip-hop artists of all time
Speech has continued to be a trailblazer with the group and as a solo artist sharing stages with Nelson Mandela, Minister Louis Farrakhan, and Barack Obama; he is the categorical definition of legendary.