The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

Not about that album but here's a related Fugees/Lauryn Hill story:

I always thought the verse lyrics for Killing Me Softly by Roberta Flack was "Strumming my fate with his fingers..."

I thought it was so poetic as an alliterative metaphor with fate/fingers.

So for years, I deeply resented Lauryn's dumbed-down cover that emphasized "strumming my PAIN with his fingers..."

Until one day I looked up Flack's original lyrics...and it was always written as "pain", Roberta just couldn't enunciate.

Great album. Easily in my top 25. The skits are kind of annoying though. Also, it makes me feel very old that the album is 20 years old.

Yeah, I feel this way about Snoop Dogg's Doggystyle, The Chronic and Outkast's early albums.

The skits never add anything and the music is more than strong enough to hold your attention if you just let it play.

Fu Gee La is one of my favorite hip hop songs of all time.

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rap's infatuation with skits was REALLY annoying in retrospect. 

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Still very much a thing. god I wish that shite would go away

Gah, that was my jam back in the day. It makes me so sad every time i hear that she shows up late to festivals and concerts. She had/has a huge fan base and she shits on us at every chance she gets.

She's a nut job.

And that album is overrated imo.

My wife saw her in St. Louis as part of a festival a couple of years ago. She said it was shite, and my wife was a huge fan.