3 Years, 5 Months and 2 Days in the Life Of…

This was a Trip. Not super into southern hip-hop from the era, but there are some bangers on this one. Loved the sampling, and the spaciousness of the record, which is a rare occurence in rap music from the era. It’s a pretty good mix. Amazing samples of course. Low 4.

Solid album. Though sometimes the albums feel a bit all over the place. Some of the drum tracks in particular are really grating. Others are sublime though. For every track I needed to skip partway through there was another that just gripped me. "People Everyday" was a standout. Great female vocals throughout. The singer on "Tennessee" is amazing.

I appreciate this may be influential or something but it just ain’t my style of music

2

Powerfully groovy, great rhymes, and fantastic messages. Beautiful album.

I'm not a huge lyrics person, so most hip hop goes over my head. On vibes alone, I really enjoyed this, was bopping. 4*
Highlights: man's final frontier, u

This album is a very groovy, instrumental version of hip hop with clean lyrics. It feels very dated to me. The lyrics weren't that great either, they were overly positive. This sounded like it was straight out of an 80s or 90s sitcom. Not really my thing.

I remember this album playing quite often at a friend’s house, and even though hip-hop isn’t really my thing, I like the groovy, funky, and laid-back vibe of Arrested Development. Some parts of “3 Years...” are still a bit monotonous, but in a way that’s still somewhat tolerable. I suppose the reason for this is that they worked a lot with real instruments, which makes the production far more lively than that of their gangsta counterparts.
I especially liked the bassline in “Dawn Of The Dread” today, even though it’s probably a synthesizer.
Not my favorite album, but an important milestone and fully deserving of its place on this list.

Another quite fun album. I like this kind of 90's hip hop.

Favorite Songs: People Everyday ; Mr Wendal

Production is great, delivery is good. Everything works and has aged well, but I can't get over the lyrics. Points for doing positive stuff, but it's just so preachy.

This is fun, great beats and bombastic sound. Some of the religious messaging is a little too strong for my taste but not enough to stop me from enjoying the record.

ovi repnige, osim što odlučuju, dakako, repniški repnigovati (klasika), također odlučuju biti neizmjerni krindžušari koji će sakatiti semplove s dobrano izgrebanih ploča (mrzim, ali jebeno MRZIM to odvratno, usrano pucketanje na pločama, pogotovo kad je namjerno izabrano kao "artistic choice" ili kojim god drugim pojmom odlučite krstiti tu uševnu grdusinu koja se uvukla u pojedine glazbene djelatnosti). bljuc

kako se bližilo kraju, mislio sam, ajde, možda će moći proći pod dvojku... i onda je došla zadnja stvar, s najviše usranog PUCKETANJA i s nekom toliko iritantnom melodijom koja zvuči kao ona arapska zvonjava s nokije (https://youtu.be/oS2ZPeat-w4?si=g2H_wyqW-mJ6ZHHj). bravo!

smeće. jebite se

1.5/5. You know that bullshit line people pull when trying to dismiss rap music as a medium where they say something along the lines of “I don’t like all the drugs and sex and violence.” Arrested Development who rose to fame through the conscious hip-hop scene spend several tracks on this album basically doing just that. It is some absolutely irritating holier-than-thou stuff. They paint themselves as an Afro-centric conscious hip hop group but then chastise other rappers for essentially “doing it the wrong way.” This attitude culminates in the truly insane line on the song Tennessee “I ask you lord why you enlightened me, without the enlightenment of all my folks.” Which just oh my god is so bad. And the beats are fine enough, but basically every other conscious hip-hop group from this era had better production, better lyrics and a better attitude around the genre of rap and its place in the musical/cultural landscape. There is a reason that this group basically immediately tanked after this album. The moral of the story here being, I want to go listen to Low End Theory or some other significantly better execution of this style now.

Pretty cool beats, uses of samples and melodies. Nothing really standout but might give it another go.

I had never heard of Arrested Development before this and I wasn't excited at all but wow, I take that back. I love this

definitivamente do início dos anos 90
mas bons beats, bons samples, boa banda e bons flows. mto massa!!

I can't believe I had never heard these guys before. This is right up my alley for old school rap. I liked Mr. Wendal for sure.

I enjoyed this a lot more than I expected

This feels like attending a fun, education-based party where I don't fit in at all and everyone is wondering who let me in.

We covered lots of important topics like parenting, social justice, income inequality, the environment, geography, and religion. But we did it all while shaking our learning butts to a positive and groovy beat.

I wake up the next day wondering if it ever happened at all or if it was just a fever dream but I'm suddenly nice as fuck to my fellow citizens and believe in god.

3.9

2.71

My most surprising moment was when a track called teach a man a fish ended up being a call for revolution, from a band I always thought were far more cuddly.