Tennessee is the title of a number-one R&B single by hip hop group, Arrested Development, from their album 3 Years, 5 Months & 2 Days in the Life Of.... The music video for the song was directed by Milčo Mančevski and shot in Georgia, with friends of the group and people from the local area appearing in the video. The song won the Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group in 1993. A recent poll of VH1 viewers placed the song at no.71 on their list of the Greatest Songs of the 90s and is listed as one of the 500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It was ranked no.78 on VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of Hip Hop. The song also served as the theme to the short-lived Malcolm-Jamal Warner sitcom Here and Now.
Speech was inspired to write the song after meeting up with his brother at his grandmother's funeral in Tennessee. Shortly afterwards, his brother died suddenly from a bad asthma attack, and Speech wrote the song about the experience of losing two loved ones so close together.
The song uses a sample from Prince's Alphabet Street which was not cleared at the time of the song being released; Prince's lawyers waited until after the song sold well and then charged the group $100,000 for the use of the sample.
The song uses a sample from Prince's Alphabet Street which was not cleared at the time of the song being released; Prince's lawyers waited until after the song sold well and then charged the group $100,000 for the use of the sample.
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