Exclusive: Arrested Development talks breaking barriers in hip hop, new music

Arrested Development was introduced to the world at a time when most of Atlanta-based artists were ignored by the mainstream media. During the early 1990s, Atlanta had yet to become the Black music capital and was relatively ignored.& But Arrested Development changed that with the release of their debut album,& 3 Years, 5 Months and 2 Days in the Life Of.. The album became an instant hit winning multiple Grammy Awards and selling 4 million copies in the U.S. alone.& It was it was tough because hip hop was ruled by the east coast and west coast at the time. And so New York and LA was basically calling the shots. And it was tough to get we had to work hard to prove that we deserve to be here. And so from our first video, Tennessee, we firmly established the southern look, totally juxtapose just just about juxtaposition. Keep trying whatever. juxtaposing what New York was doing, which was sort of the high high rise bricks in the buildings and the fences and the basketball courts. We were the rural south, the grandmothers, the children running around. It was a 100% different image for a hip hop period, and...