In 1994, two Hatians and a hot chick from New Jersey, who was then better known as Rita from SIster Act 2 (and as an elevator operator from Steven Soderbergh's early film King of The Hill), released their debut album as The Fugees. Their CD, was released by Ruffhouse/Columbia to almost zero fanfare, yet somehow it sold over two million copies worldwide. I'm just guessing here, but I believe that most of the two million buyers thought that their debut was just more of the same from their breakout album The Score. But they could not have been more wrong. You see, The Score is, for the most part, entertaining. Has given me a terrible fucking headache that I'm still trying to recover from.
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From what I understand, The Fugees's live shows were pretty, well, live, and that led to their eventual record deal. Lauryn Hill had not yet found that perfect balance between rapping and singing, instead opting to go the emcee route.
Wyclef Jean wasn't yet ubiquitous and annoying as shit. (Full disclosure: I liked Clef's The Carnival, so this shouldn't be read as an attack.) And Pras sucked. (You can read into that whatever you want.) The album spawned three singles, two of which folks in the underground were looking out for, caring and nurturing them as if it were their own seed.
The leadoff twelve inch, ' Boof Baf', if easily one of the worst first singles I have heard in my years as a hip hop historian. If you heard this song, and then listened to, fuck, anything from The Score (except for ' Killin' 'Em Softly, a cover which I cannot stand), you would be hard pressed to find any similarity between the two groups.
'Nappy Heads', the original, sounds passable, with some hard ass drums and a great horn sample, but the rhymes aren't polished; it sounds as if they woke up that morning and decided that rapping would be a good source of income. The Fugees released a version remixed by Salaam Remi (now known for his awesome work with Nas) which is the best song on this waste of plastic. As for the third single, 'Vocab', this is the song that has caused me the most grief. You see, the video version was a fucking remix, one that doesn't appear on this CD. (In fact, it wouldn't surface again until Bootleg Versions, their EP of rare and unreleased material.) The remix sounds great, starting off with Lauryn's voice, which just invites you into the Refugee world, before the drums kick in. The original version, in contrast, has a more acoustic sound with the same guitar lick, but the song doesn't work, as the rhymes seem forced.
The beats presented here aren't very distinctive, either. 'Refugees On The Mic' and ' Livin' Like There Ain't No Tomorrow' sound exactly the same to me. Clef sounds like he's rhyming with his last breath during every single bar.
Lauryn Hill doesn't really sing here, which is weird, since her voice is one of the most distinctive things she has going for her musically. Pras, well, there isn't anything I can really say other than he wasn't any good back then, either. Is puzzling in that, somehow, The Fugees were allowed to record a second album, and then their career took off. This album isn't very good, and I wouldn't recommend this to anyone, since life is too short. Go get The Score instead.
That's a fair question, I guess. The answer would be, for the last twenty-six years. The point of my blog, as a whole, is to bring up albums that are either considered to be 'classics' to see if they still hold up, or to point out that your favorite artists have had missteps along their way to greatness. I'm not one of those hip hop stans that claims that every single song from my favorite artists is the best shit ever, as evidenced by my Wu-Tang reviews, and they're my favorite fucking group ever.
And yes, I listened to it recently and wrote a review on it. That's the fucking POINT. And it doesn't hold up at all.
My opinion stands. Thanks for reading! Usually I'm pretty calm and laid back but this album fucking stinks! I bought this garbage because I really liked the 'Nappy Heads' remix, I still think the beat sounds good, but the rest of the album is pure diarrhea.
This album was so bad, it completely discouraged me from ever buying a Fugee-related project ever again. How did this crap sell 2 million copies? Oh yeah, people like me got duped into buying this trash. I'm very suspicious of Wyclef especially from that Shakira 'Hips don't lie' song. It seems this guy is one of the luckiest guys in music. Has this guy ever come up with anything truly original?
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The Fugees translated an intriguing blend of jazz-rap, R&B, and reggae into huge success during the mid-'90s, when the trio's sophomore album The Score hit number one on the pop charts and sold over five million copies. The trio formed in the late '80s in the New Jersey area, where Lauryn Hill and Prakazrel Michel ('Pras') attended a local high school and began working together.
Michel's cousin Wyclef Jean ('Clef') joined the group (then called the Tranzlator Crew), and the trio signed to Ruffhouse/Columbia in 1993. After renaming themselves the Fugees (a term of derision, short for refugees, which was usually used to describe Haitian immigrants). Though the group's debut album, Blunted on Reality, was quite solid, it reflected a prevailing gangsta stance that may have been forced by the record label. No matter how pigeonholed the Fugees may have sounded on their debut, the group had obviously asserted their control by the time of their second album, The Score.
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With just as much intelligence as their jazz-rap forebears, the trio also worked with surprisingly straight-ahead R&B on the soulful 'Killing Me Softly With His Song,' sung by Lauryn Hill. Elsewhere, Clef and Pras sampled doo wop and covered Bob Marley's 'No Woman No Cry,' giving the record familiarity for the commercial mainstream, but keeping it real with insightful commentary on their urban surroundings. Lotr bfme 2 your serial is already in use. The Score became one of the surprise hits of 1996, reaching number one on the pop charts and making the Fugees one of the most visible rap groups around the world.
During 1997, the crew played on the Smokin' Grooves tour, and took time out while Hill gave birth to a child and Clef issued a solo album, The Carnival Featuring the Refugee Allstars. In 1998 Hill released her smash record The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill and in 2000 Clef released his second solo disc, The Ecleftic: 2 Sides II a Book. In turn, their solo success cast further doubt on another Fugees release.
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