Speech is an award winning artist, consistently pushing the artistic and social envelope. On the
home page, click on any number of projects to learn what Speech is currently working on.
A little more about 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...” (EMI), sold
over 4 million albums, earned them two Grammy awards for Best New Artist and Best
Rap Single (Tennessee), 2 MTV awards, (People Everyday), a Soul Train Music Award,
and the coveted NAACP Image Award. Rolling Stone magazine named them Band of
The Year (92), while VH-1 named them one of the greatest Hip-hop artists of all time!
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame even named the AD smash “Tennessee” one of the 500
Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll.
Speech has continued to be a trailblazer with the group and as a solo artist sharing
stages with Nelson Mandela, Minister Louis Farrakhan, Hilary Rodham Clinton and
Barack Obama, he is the categorical definition of legendary.