Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
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Free Music Review: Years later
Hit: 5 Stars
I still go back to this CD when I need inspiration. It was an excellent project with every song being of high quality. "ExFactor" is my favorite sing along! Anyway, Ms. Hill is not racist. Most Africans aren't. It takes political and social power ot be racist. It takes dislike to be prejudiced. I think she is just concsious of white oppression that has affected many across the world. That is vastly different from being a racist. Free Music Review: Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Hit: 5 Stars
Lauryn Hill's (AKA L Boogie) debut Grammy award winning album "The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill" (1998) is an excellent release which continues to vibe well many years later. My introduction to Lauryn Hill came on the Fugee's second album "The Score" (1996) another great album. As a lyricist L Boogie drops on point rhymes on "Lost Ones", then lights up the track singing. A passionate sounding Hill sings soulfully on the strong "Ex Factor". The smooth upbeat "To Zion" flows through nicely and leads up to the album's first single the outstanding "Doo Wop" (That Thing). Lauryn Hill then contemplates what an artist and music should be on "Superstar" while talking about making paper on "Final Hour". Sad sounding cuts follow in "When It Hurts So Bad" and "I Used to Love Him" feat. Mary J. Blige. Hill and D'Angelo deliver an impressive duet with the mellow "Nothing Even Matters". Lauryn Hill shines again on the exceptional "Everything is Everything". L Boogies rendition of "Can't Take My Eyes Off" is memorable, and Hill takes her audience to new heights on the closer "Tell Him". "The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill" is an album to have in any collection.Free Music Review: "Truely Miseducated!" gets it wrong
Hit: 5 Stars
Fortunately the April 10th review below gets it completely wrong... There is no evidence Lauryn Hill has made any racist comments. That is merely an urban legend. When someone uses an Eminem song as a credible source, I weep for our nation.Free Music Review: Truely Miseducated!
Hit: 4 Stars
Ok, I've been wanted to write a review for this (well for Lauryn Hill) for quite some time now, but I had never heard the album in it's entirety and so, after purchasing it (sorry to dissapoint you Miss Hill) I can now write my review. I wanted to hear the album first so that my review had more substance than just my opinion. First I must say that Lauryn is truely inspirational and brilliant for her writing is top notch and her voice is beautiful. She touches upon subjects that are important to society, from abortion and pro-life as in 'To Zion' as well as self respect in 'That Thing' but whats sad is that her good cause is overshadowed by her HUGE flaw. Lauryn is bent of the subject of love and that's seen in the interlude tracks that feature a high school study on Love and what it means to love someone...and how we should love others. The problem is that Lauryn Hill herself has shown the biggest expression of hate in her voiced opinions of white people. She has proven herslef to be racist and thus what she says has little effect because she don't practice what she preaches. That's sad, because everything that Lauryn sings about here is important and has lots of deep meaning, but it's overlooked because of her attitude toward the subject. I gave this CD 4 stars, and se desearves that...this album is almost perfect, but it's the person that is Lauryn Hill that I can't agree with. It's sad, because I once liked her (when she was with Fugees) and I would have really liked her if she had just kept her negative opinions to herself. If Eminem were to have said "if another black man buys my album I'm quiting the business" he would have been shot by now, but it's okay for Lauryn to make that statement about whites...thats sad. And to think we were making progress in the racism department!
***I want to make a statement here, for I continue to get hate mail because of this review. I'm sorry I've offended anyone in my view here and I want to make it clear that I in no way want to opress black people. I understand, from some of the e-mails I've recieved, that my statement about Miss Hill was false and if that is the case I apologize. I should have done my homework, yes, but I did not and just went off of something I had heard a few years back, something that my best friend at the time (who was black) had told me. I just wanted to apologize for hurting anyones feelings because that was not my intent.***
Free Music Review: Fresh as ever
Hit: 5 Stars
In 2006, eight years after it was released, this album still sounds as fresh and exciting as ever. That means one thing: this album is full of considerable juice.
It flows through every track: an energy -- happy, sad, thoughtful, joyous, grateful, contemplative... there is something about this album that can strike a chord in anyone.
Before Kanye blew up, before Alisha Keys made the "lady on the piano" cool, before OutKast made it cool to do experimental rap albums, before Beyonce made people notice the beauty of a black woman singer... there was Lauryn Hill. And man, her voice is one that will stand out in its uniqueness for generation.
Forget the titles "MC" or "singer". For once, the title "artist" seems to fit better.