The Score was playing everywhere on my college campus during my freshman year. It seemed like the Fugees had the potential to make a few more great records and then all of the sudden it was over. The relationship between Lauryn Hill and Wyclef Jean soured and the group became another victim of the Fleetwood Mac syndrome.
The good news is that Lauryn Hill went on to make one of the best hip hop albums ever. The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill has the beats, the lyrics, the melodies... everything. She was only 23 years old when it came out, but she had already found fame, lost her group and had a baby with a married man. She seems both experienced and naive at different turns. Even on this song, she goes from sounding like a 1st semester philosophy student in the chorus to sounding like she could teach you a thing or two during the the rap break. Unfortunately she fell off the map after this, returning only for an MTV Unplugged performance where she was barely coherent and seemed to be having a breakdown.
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