Beneath these reinventions cook rhythms that recall trip-hop’s origins in rap’s own outer encampments - the ground occupied by De La Soul (to whom the Fugees offer props) and the Jungle Brothers. The Marley ballad becomes a tribute to the trench towns of Brooklyn, N.Y., and New Jersey and the Flack song a comical boast about the crew’s skills. I started bumping The Score again because there's nothing left to impress me, and i actually played the terrible remixes to the classic Fu-Gee-La song. Not only do the Fugees dip into classics like “I Only Have Eyes for You,” they fully reshape Bob Marley’s “No Woman, No Cry” and Roberta Flack’s “Killing Me Softly” to accommodate their own stories. Akon was on The Fugees' 'The Score' hiphop. Its left-field, multi-platinum success proved there was a substantial untapped audience with an appreciation for rap music but little interest in thug life. The group’s sampling style flows from a distinctive attitude toward cover versions. A breath of fresh air in the gangsta-dominated mid-'90s, the Fugees' breakthrough album, The Score, marked the beginning of a resurgence in alternative hip-hop. The trio are heading out on a 12-city international tour, kicking off on September 22 with an intimate pop-up show in New York City at an undisclosed location. Hill, Clef and toasting rapper Pras converse in French, creole and English, proclaiming, insinuating and stretching meaning. 'The Fugees’ Lauryn Hill, Wyclef Jean and Pras Michel are officially reuniting for the 25th anniversary of their classic 1996 album, The Score. Enjoyment Grade: B/B+ Quality Grade: Kind of sounds like (limited to bands I’ve heard, so probably a terrible comparison): I have no basis for comparison.
Witticisms like singer and rapper Lauryn “L” Hill’s description of a mean lover - “He tried to burn me like a perm” - or rapper and guitarist Clef’s mix of sermonizing and wigging out between songs don’t so much lighten The Score’s mood as humanize it, lifting the Fugees out of the stereotypes they court and lending depth to their inner-city sketches. Album: The Score by The Fugees Recommended by: Todd Kushigemachi Mood going into listening: Annoyed. Wyclef Jean, Lauryn Hill, and Pras (formerly known as the Tranzlator Crew) changed the game of what we now call conscious rap with this classic album which infused Hip-Hop, Reggae, R&B, and Pop. On its second album, the hip-hop threesome cops a grim veneer but escapes gangsta clichés by playing around with the formulas. The Score was the second and final album released by the trio formally known as the Fugees. The Fugees are a Neapolitan treat, sweet in three layers: rhyme, sample and groove. Fugees: The Score Ruffhouse/Columbia, 1996 They got black humanism, gender equality, and somebody to eclipse Duke Bootee in the Columbia alumni magazine.
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