Mr. Wendal

Mr. Wendal peaked at number six on the Billboard Hot 100 and went gold in the United States. In Europe and Australia it came out in December 1992 as a double A-side with Revolution, and it reached the top 10 in Australia, Ireland, New Zealand and the United Kingdom. Keith Ward directed the video, which was nominated at the 1994 Soul Train Music Awards, and the song won a BMI Pop Award in 1994.

Speech said there was no real Mr. Wendal. The song drew on his experiences with homeless people he befriended in Atlanta, some who chose that life and some who ran out of luck. The person he thought of as the real Mr. Wendal died the year the song came out, and the group gave half the proceeds to the National Coalition for the Homeless. It samples the drums of Sing a Simple Song by Sly and the Family Stone. NME made it Single of the Week, though one of its writers felt it was spoilt by being an exact copy of De La Soul's Eye Know.