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Post by hi74 on Jul 1, 2013 8:31:21 GMT 1
@ Puma, To me the Miseducation is not radio friendly, but the production of the songs was classic and timeless. I dont need a radio friendly sound from Lauryn i just want the brilliance of her art to shine in her new songs. I think the Miseducation was quite radio friendly. In terms of lyrical content and and musical substance, it was definitely unexpected and different from what is popular, but the production and overall brand of the album was marketable. I still hear "Ex-Factor" and "To Zion" on the radio as if they just came out today. "Neurotic Society" sounded much better live, and Lauryn herself admitted it was made in haste. I think it has been well acknowledged that the song isn't her best work. tastes are different for everyone but personally i think Neurotic Society/studio is a sensational pieces "it is a jewelry" XD
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Post by Pale Sellassie on Jul 1, 2013 14:37:57 GMT 1
Wyclef is not over Lauryn its so obvious, but there is some truth in what he is saying. That Neurotic Society Song is not the business. The lyrics of the song are super intelligent and her rapping skills and flow are way out of this world, so super talented. I still believe no one in this world can rap like Lauryn, but the beat of the song is so weak. Lauryn needs to work with people that will seriously complement her talent. I actually like the team she was touring with in 2007 and the way they remixed her songs during concerts took me to another level of music, even though her voice was not good during that period. I think Lauryn needs to hook up again with Kevin Choice. i totally agree about the 2007 tour band. that was magic!!!! totally DISAGREE about the BEAT to Neurotic Society being weak. that beat was AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by hi74 on Jul 1, 2013 22:00:19 GMT 1
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Post by appolonio on Jul 15, 2013 20:09:36 GMT 1
From Nicki Minaj's twitter:
Nicki Minaj @nickiminaj 13 Juil
What are your thoughts? @barackobama We're allowed to disregard 911 operators, pursue and kill ppl now? But send lauryn hill to jail 4 TAXES
Retweeté par selah✨
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Post by guest21 on Jul 17, 2013 13:57:45 GMT 1
Yasiin Bey, AKA MosDef Interview with WWOZ Talks about Lauryn"s new song "Neurotic Society" starting @13:11 www.youtube.com/watch?v=szKM5ASzFB0<iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/szKM5ASzFB0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
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Post by m213 on Jul 17, 2013 19:15:16 GMT 1
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Post by ladona on Aug 7, 2013 0:15:58 GMT 1
John LegendEBONY: Speaking of classic soul… You worked on The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, playing on “Everything Is Everything.” Have you had a chance to communicate with Lauryn? JL: That was my first appearance on a major album. I haven’t seen her since Rock the Bells on Roosevelt Island a few years ago. I wish Lauryn nothing but the best and hope that she is able to do everything she needs to do creatively after this brief stint. We all miss her as fans, who just love her and know that she did something so special with that album. We all have been hoping to get her back. Obviously, that’s selfish for us. She has to go through her own journey. I wish her the best in that, but as selfish fans we’d love to hear more new music from her and have her get back to her full glory. www.ebony.com/entertainment-culture/john-legend-makes-modern-soul-classic-777#ixzz2XRJYVOcHBanksWHICH SINGERS INFLUENCED YOU GROWING UP?Fiona Apple, Lauryn Hill, Tracy Chapman to name a few. Lauryn Hill’s voice captured my imagination and soul, every part of me. www.hungertv.com/feature/the-interview-banks/SolangeWhat female performers do you look up to?Solange: In junior high school Björk totally changed my life. I totally was enamoured by her, because she was my first introduction to someone so avant-garde. There was just this sense of art and the dramatic in everything she did. Even if she just had on a t-shirt and jeans, I saw the art in it. And then I’ve always loved Lauryn Hill and Erykah Badu, and thought they were just beautiful queens. I really identified with them, especially as a young black girl growing up in Houston. www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/15310/1/solangeMisha BTell us about your new single 'Here's To Everything (Ooo La La)' which samples Lauryn Hill and The Fugees...So, the concept is here's to all the lows that make beautiful highs and that's basically what it is. In terms of Lauryn Hill, Fugees - the original is actually Teena Marie - it works because Lauryn is one of my musical inspirations. I'd be lying if I didn't say I wasn't cautious [of sampling the song], I had to be cautious, she's one of my inspirations. I'm a bit iffy when I hear different people singing it because obviously it's not her, but I feel that it works well. www.entertainmentwise.com/news/108288/INTERVIEW-Misha-B-Talks-Life-After-X-Factor-Touring-With-Nicki-Minaj-More
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Post by puma on Sept 3, 2013 22:14:12 GMT 1
Rapsody Credits Lauryn Hill For Erasing Hip Hop's "Gender Lines" Rapsody talks past homework assignments with 9th Wonder, says she had to memorize Jay Z's "The Black Album." As the mastermind behind The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill, New Jersey rapper Lauryn Hill has long been referred to as one of the most groundbreaking female artists in Hip Hop, and to one emcee in particular she’s gone on to erase gender lines in Hip Hop and helped to ensure that female emcees no longer be placed in a box. While speaking exclusively with HipHopDX, North Carolina rhymeslinger Rapsody didn’t hesitate in expressing her appreciation for Hill as she reminisced on her first time hearing the former Fugees rapper. “The first time I heard Lauryn Hill was—you know, I was a kid in front of the TV watching videos and the ‘Fu-Gee-La’ video came on. And I was stuck for a minute,” Rapsody revealed. “It was this girl and these two guys rapping and I was just drawn to it. Like ‘what is this?’ It was a different sound for me. It had that African, eccentric feel to it. It was soulful at the same time…To me she erased gender lines. She out-rapped the guys to me...She out-rapped the guys and a lot of times people like to put women in this box where we’re only supposed to rap a certain way or we’re not supposed to be as good as men. You hear a lot of times, ‘she’s good for a girl.’ Lauryn was one of those females that erased that.” link to articleRapsody took Ms. Hill's "Lost Ones" and did her own version. Check it out here
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Post by puma on Sept 5, 2013 20:36:38 GMT 1
Sheryl Lee Ralph Talks Playing A TV Mom, Lauryn Hill’s Imprisonment, And Disappointing Images Of Blacks On Reality TV On Keeping In Touch With Sister Act 2 Daughter Lauryn Hill And Her Current Situation… “It’s just hard. It’s difficult. When I think of an incredibly talented young woman way ahead of her time in such an incredible, unexpected stage in life, I think to myself, you know, sometimes things happen for you to learn certain things about life. And if Martha Stewart can come out of that experience bigger and better, so can she. She’s got beautiful, incredible children to live for. Her best days are ahead of her. After all…she’s my child [laughs]. Click here to link to the article
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Post by puma on Sept 9, 2013 23:51:57 GMT 1
Jill Scott @missjillscott 2h I miss Lauryn Hill so much.
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Post by ladona on Sept 13, 2013 14:39:02 GMT 1
Janelle Monae (Essence Magazine, May 2103)A few weeks after she was fired from her day job at Office Depot (for repeatedly checking her email on company time), she performed at an open mic night at Justin’s, Sean “Diddy” Comb’s upscale soul food eatery. She brought down the house with a stirring rendition of the Fugees’ version of Roberta Flack’s “Killing Me Softly.” Lauryn Hill helped raise me…She was a huge inspiration.” Janelle Monae, (September 2012)If you were to drive across America, which album would you take with you?"I would probably take The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. I think that the songs in there are life songs. Those are songs that elevate you and make you think about where you are as a person, and where you'd like to be. It really touches the core and I think it's just a classic, timeless album." www.refinery29.com/janelle-monaeMonica Lynch, Tommy Boy Records (1999)STEVE: How do you rank her? MONICA: I have a lot of respect for Lauryn Hill. First of all, she's amazingly talented and she's beautiful. But she's a person who also gives a lot back to her community. I remember getting phone calls from her trying to get us enlisted in supporting fund-raising efforts for this thing, that thing and the other thing. She's really on it. To me she's got the whole package. [glancing at some industry sheets] I'm looking at the Top 50 rap records on urban radio right now, and out of that fifty, the females that appear on the list are ... Lauryn Hill, who has five records playing at once. STEVE: Five cuts off one album? MONICA: Yeah. Which is enormous for any artist, male or female. www.indexmagazine.com/interviews/monica_lynch.shtmlMacklemore (2011 Rock the Bells Interview)SS: Is there anybody on the bill that you want to see just as a fan? Macklemore: I would love to see everybody. I’m excited for the females. We got Lauryn Hill and Erykah Badu, those are two people that I look up to immensely. I respect everybody that’s on the bill. I’m looking forward to seeing what Blu, Fashawn, and Exile put together. To be on the same bill with Nas and Common is insane. That’s some life-long goal sh*t that’s accomplished. www.examiner.com/article/q-a-with-macklemoreNico Segal (June 2013)The tape’s first single, “Zion,” is an ode to a woman Segal describes as one of his biggest inspirations. “Lauryn Hill is easily one of my favorite and most influential artists of all time,” he said. “I love that song. It’s the only cover on the whole project and it doesn’t sound like her song at all. I re-harmonized the chords and I play her melody on the trumpet as if I was singing.” www.vibe.com/article/nico-segal-talks-life-after-kids-these-days-lifting-lauryn-hill-and-donnie-trumpet-mixtape
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Post by puma on Nov 21, 2013 23:44:34 GMT 1
@0:58- Snow Tha Product talks about the Miseducation
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Post by puma on Jan 16, 2014 8:06:53 GMT 1
The Stepkids' Jeff Gitelman talks about growing up in Moldova and playing with Lauryn Hill "You can't expect to succeed if you are only putting in part time." Your first job out of college was guitarist in Lauryn Hill's touring band. How did you land that?I loved hip hop and, in the early 2000s, when I went to school, that's when people first started translating from machines back to humans. The Roots had been playing for a while, and it became fashionable to have live instruments. I had backed rappers, the new rock stars, and I understood that I was acting as a sample. So when Lauryn Hill was having auditions in Boston and New York, I was able to translate that very well. How long were you touring with her?Just a few months. She wasn't the most ideal boss to work for, but after that I started climbing up the ladder. I worked with Bobby Brown and I got the job [touring] with Alicia [Keys]. Lauryn Hill wasn't the best boss?I probably shouldn't go on about that. Let me put it this way: It was the best first step in the music industry to have, because it prepared me for the worst. It broke my heart right away about how tough music can be, and how it can cut you if you are sensitive to it. It showed me where musicians can stand in the music-business hierarchy unless they work to get something of their own going. Article Link Here
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Post by puma on Feb 11, 2014 14:22:27 GMT 1
Kanye West's 10 Year Anniversary of College Dropout, his first record, is approaching so Billboard did a series of interviews with 26 people who participated in the making of that album. Here's what they said about "All Falls Down" and "Mystery of Iniquity". It gives you some more insight into why Lauryn was pissed about the music industry and why she's so tough on musicians. "All Falls Down"88-Keys: "Lauryn Hill was supposedly working on a follow-up album [to 1998's 'The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill']. My manager, who is also one of my best friends, Daniel Glogower, caught wind of it, and was trying to make things happen. From what we were told, we couldn't just submit tracks. The label wanted to hear what people would sound like working with her without actually working with her. They didn't have acapella stems to give to us, but they suggested the Lauryn Hill ‘Unplugged’ album. Daniel gave the CD to me and I skimmed through it. There were only some I can program, and use the drums. As I'm working on it, Kanye and I had been best friends going on two-years. Any work that came my way, he was one of two people I always tried to put on. Him and the great J. Dilla -- they were the ones I tried telling everybody about. I hit him up, told him about it, drove to his crib, and dropped the CD. I told him what needed to be done. I said, 'Give it to me or Daniel and we'll submit it.' He ended up making this crazy beat with the drum programming and all this other things he did to it. I'm like, 'Yo, are you going to give it to Lauryn?' And he's like, 'Nah, I'm going to keep it for myself.'" JB Marshall: "We walked into Baseline [Studios], mid-day, and it smelled like incense, and the ambiance was chill. He said it was 'the time before the madness,' because Jay or State Property wouldn't come in 'til night. I looked at the console and there were two CDs: an Anita Baker CD and Lauryn Hill's MTV Unplugged CD. That album ['MTV Unplugged No. 2.0'] was like the Bible. Before we went to the studio that day, we were working on a song called 'Self-Conscious.' The lyrics were so on point. It had the ability to truly be a single but they wanted the production to marry the lyrics. I took him to take the Lauryn album. We went back to Newark, and told Westside (it's what I call him) to 'The Mystery of Iniquity.' He had his 'Aha' expression. He's like, 'I can die right now.' I'm playing pool, and he comes around and he starts singing: 'When it all falls down.' I told him to go to the end of the record and hear the clapping at the end, and he gave me that look again. That day or the next day, Coodie and J. Ivy and he played them 'All Falls Down.'" Devo Springsteen: "'All Falls Down' was made on a fairly cheap Roland 18-track digital recorder and it wasn’t re-done in the studio. It was just put on the album. Things would be made in his apartment, and it’d sound amazing. A lot of times when then we’d do it in the studio it didn’t sound 'good.' So that first time would end up on the album." John Monopoly: "We were trying to get the sample cleared by Lauryn Hill, so Kanye and I flew to Miami and literally looked for Lauryn. We drove around Miami looking for Lauryn. I don't know what we thought. That's the kind of stuff that we were doing, we were so 'by any means necessary.' 'Oh, she lives in Miami? We'll just go find her.' I don't know who we thought we were or what we were doing. We bumped into Rohan [Marley], and ended up getting an email address but… (Sigh)." Shalik Berry: "We went as far as sending her a check to entice her to do it, but she didn’t do it. She didn’t actually write the record, so we were able to clear the words but not her. Syleena [Johnson] came in in the ninth inning and nailed it." Plain Pat: "She (Lauryn Hill) cleared it but then didn't clear it. She pulled the clearance at the last minute. We were scrambling. We had all these replays and Syleena Johnson was at the Record Plant at the studio across. We were up all night [recording], up ’til 7am cutting it." Kyambo "Hip Hop" Joshua: "I think that Lauryn was more mad at her version of that record, that the real one never came out. All that stuff that she did at the show, she'd say they were real records. By him putting it out like that, she felt like it was his [version] would come out before hers. And… it never came out." John Monopoly: "We all kind of knew that was the record that was really going to break through. That's why we went so hard to get the sample cleared." Devo Springsteen: "They experimented with John Legend at one point [in place of Lauryn Hill]." Consequence: "I remember when it was called ‘Self-Conscious’ and it was to a different beat. The rhymes were so societal and unisex, just like ‘Spaceship.’ Women could relate to it. He was talking about a girl but the shit he was saying was so relevant, you couldn’t even front." Syleena Johnson: "I was in the studio, in LA, recording for 'Chapter 3.' I was recording a song called 'Bull’s-Eye' which featured Common and was produced by Kanye. We were in the studio, and he said, 'Syleena, I have this record that Lauryn Hill won’t give me the clearance for the sample.' He needed someone to re-sing it. 'Can you try this for me?' he asked. It was right after we recorded 'Bull's-Eye.' I went in and re-sang 'The Mystery of Iniquity.' I sang over it. And, he was like 'do what you would do,' because I kept singing it exactly like she did, because obviously you’d want that same vibe. That’s how that little switch of the run came in. After that, they looked at each and smiled. The very next morning they called me and said, 'This is the single. It’s going to radio. We’re shooting the video in a week.' I was like, 'Oh, okay! That’s awesome.’ I didn’t hear the entire thing ’til it hit the radio." www.billboard.com/articles/columns/the-juice/5893976/kanye-wests-the-college-dropout-an-oral-history?page=0%2C0
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Post by ladona on Feb 27, 2014 16:33:19 GMT 1
This dude has a great story; the entire “Guitar International “ article is a cool read. There’s a little info about Ms. Hill’s new album in the “Yes!Weekly” article. Guitarist, Eric GalesCraig: Folks may have also seen you out on the road in Lauryn Hill’s band as well last year. How did you work your way into her band? Eric Gales: Through Doug Wimbish, the bass player for Living Colour. He was in her group and said he needed a hot player and couldn’t think of anyone who’d fit the bill better than me! [Laughs] he called me in and I got the gig. Craig: That’s got to be a bit of a different experience as part of her band as opposed to your own gigs.. Eric Gales: It is all structured my man. She has specific things that she wants you to do and you are there to do them. You can throw a little bit of “you” in there, but not too much though! It’s a different experience indeed. Craig: Did you find that to be a little confining? Eric Gales: It can be, but you get used to it. guitarinternational.com/2013/03/27/ace-guitarist-eric-gales/Y!W: When did your association with Lauryn Hill begin? EG: Doug Wimbish (Living Colour) is her bass player and we played a lot together. He put in a call and we met and she was amazed. She said that she knew I was passionate about what I do and said that I reminded her a lot of herself. That was really a high compliment. I was hardly familiar with Miseducation when I met her, but I got hit with it right away before we started touring. I’m playing with her and I’m like, “This lady is really a genius man. Sometimes in an overboard way, but she’s really a genius.” Y!W: I’ve heard she’s a James Brown-level taskmaster. EG: Oh, she’s tough, but she knows exactly what she wants, too. She’s one of the most talented artists I’ve ever worked with. She pretty much dictates what she wants and I play it. There’s not an avenue for me to get to be who Eric Gales is unless she just says go off, but it makes me a better guitar player to play with someone like that and she’s made it clear to me that I’m her guitar player. She hates when I’m doing something else and she has to get a sub for it. Y!W: How deeply were you involved in the creation? EG: I know I’m going to be on at least six songs, which is over half the record, plus I played some bass. She gets out in three months, so it will probably come out at the beginning of the year. I know it’s in high anticipation. I have some more touches to put on it when she gets out. It’s different though. I still haven’t heard all of the record, but it’s definitely going to be edgier than Miseducation. Y!W: Think you might sneak in a few guitar phrases from it at this Friday night’s show? EG: Maybe. Definitely. You just gotta listen hard. www.yesweekly.com/triad/article-16329-eric-gales-forms-a-family-band-gets-a-re-education-from-lauryn-hill.html
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