Legend has it that Wyclef took a jab at the late 2Pac when he said the “rappers play the Jesse James character”. Lauryn and Rah Digga both steal the show on this record on the back & forth tag team style of rhyming. Pacewon, Rah Digga, Young Zee and John Forté: Hands down, this my favorite record off the album. “ The Mask“: What I got from this song was that Wyclef was trying to be made into a snitch, Lauryn was fighting off advances of a guy that was already taken and Pras was realized that listening to gangster rap doesn’t in fact make you that.ġ1. Diamond D: Producer Diamond D joins the Fugees to spit on this track as the hook has samples of tracks from the first half of the album.ġ0. (“ I felt all flushed with fever, embarrassed by the crowd/I felt he found my letters then read each one out loud/I prayed that he would finish but he just kept right on“)ĩ. Now when I hear this track, it makes me think wonder what really went on between Lauryn and Wyclef.
Lauryn Hill truly blew up from this record. “ Killing Me Softly“: Probably their biggest song ever, the Fugees cover of Roberta Flack’s “Killing Me Softly with His Song” was played everywhere. (“ You see I stay on top of shit like a fly/My niggas reach when they got beef, then jet down to South Beach/Yo mouthpiece is yappin’, I hear it in your rap and/My family is thick so that bullshit could never happen“) This song was to reflect on how you keep your family tight and not to allow bullshit to cause conflicts.Ĩ. Omega & John Forté: I thoroughly enjoyed this record especially for the hook and John Forté’s verse. The hook samples Teena Marie’s “Ooo La La La”. “ Fu-Gee-La“: It was something about Wyclef’s opening lines (“ We used to be number 10/Now we’re permanent one/In the battle lost my finger, Mic became my arm“) that just made this song a winner with me. (“ High class get bypassed while my ass gets harrassed/And the fuzz treat bruh’s like they manhood never was” – Lauryn) There’s a Chinese Restaurant skit at the end of this where the owner mistakes the two young boys ordering food as to them having beef.Ħ. This record goes deeper into how the police treat African American citizens, much like today.
“ The Beast“: There was a skit at the end of the last record where it was discussed how police come their neighborhood and harass the community often. (“ You can try but you can’t divide the tribe/These cats can’t rap, mister author I feel no Vibe/The magazine says the girl should have went solo/The guys should stop rapping – vanish like Menudo/Took it to the heart, but every actor plays his part/As long as someone was listening, I knew it was a start/For me to get my chance, grab my pen and revamp “)ĥ. What I also like about this is that Wyclef addresses the March 1996 issue of VIBE magazine where it was mentioned that Lauryn Hill should go solo. Lauryn flips a portion of their song in her rhyme: “ See my rhymes, are the type of fly rhymes/That can only get down with my crew/And if you try, to take lines or bite rhymes/We’ll show you how the refugees do“. “ Zealots“: On this record, the group samples The Flamingos’ “I Only Have Eyes For You”. (“ I can do what you do, easy, believe me/Fronting niggas give me heebie-jeebies/So while you’re imitating Al Capone, I’ll be Nina Simone/And defecating on your microphone“) Also, love the production here.Ĥ. (“ Ready or not, here I come, you can’t hide/Gonna find you and take it slowly/Ready or not, here I come, you can’t hide/Gonna find you and make you want me“) It was easy to see why Lauryn was dancing around her male counterparts on these records. Lauryn Hill’s hook just stuck with me after all of these years. “ Ready or Not“: I’m still here for this record. (“ My rhymes make incisions in your anatomy/And I’ll back this with Deuteronomy or Leviticus, God made this word/You can’t get with this Sweet like licorice/Dangerous like syphillis, yeah“) Wyclef and Pras has a great showing here but Lauryn sets it off right here.ģ. “ How Many Mics“: When I say that Lauryn Hill is one of my favorite Female MC’s, her opening verse here is one of the reasons why. Ras Baraka does a spoken word piece where he references several tracks from off the album. This is where DJ Red Alert comes in reading opening credits that lead up to the album’s intro. DJ Red Alert and Ras Baraka: In an interview, Lauryn Hill described this album as being an ‘audio film’.
So let’s take a trip back down memory lane to revisit the final studio album from Wyclef, Lauryn and Pras.ġ. Twenty years later, it’s still one of my favorite hip-hop albums to listen to. The album caught my attention from the intro and didn’t give me the urge to want to skip any tracks. But one a trip to my aunt’s house changed all of that. I was in the ninth grade when this album was released and while The Score‘s debut single “Fu-Gee-La” was clearly a dope record, I didn’t have any intentions on getting the album. Artist: Fugees (Wyclef Jean, Lauryn Hill and Pras Michel)
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