sentences:  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 afterward, 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
  
  "Tennessee" uses a sample from Prince's "Alphabet St." that was not cleared ahead of time.