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Does anyone else miss Lauryn Hill?
She was more talented than 95% of the game out there now. Straight up, real woman with killer talent. The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill was such an amazing album, though I fear we probably won't hear anything approaching the quality of that album again.
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- Semp-listic!Lv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
I miss her music, but I see her and her children all the time. She's always with her kids, out and about. She's a very nice woman.
- Anonymous1 decade ago
Lauryn Hill undeniably was one of the most talented women in the game!
I think with all the emotional turmoil and public outbursts, she kind of shut down.
When she attached herself to that spiritual advisor and started making all those blunt statements and offending her fanbase, she really alienated people.
I loved her music and I do feel she is sorely missed, but the comments that she made/didn't make regarding the listening of her music by white folks, do reasonate hotly with me. This is reverse racism, because not all white people are bad and there were a crap ton of white fans who lost a lot of respect for her after those comments went public.
I think she should come back and denounce her strange behaviors and make some good music again!
- iLol'dLv 61 decade ago
Saw her perform at Raggamuffin, January of this year, she was fricken awesome! She rocked the stage and the crowd. Her voice is still amazing.
Love her. Hope she brings out another album just as good or even better than Miseducation.
- The REAL Jack KLv 41 decade ago
No. She was a better singer than a rapper. And I listen to rap to hear rapping, thus I'd rather listen to Jean Grae, Bahamadia, Eternia, Dessa, etc. If I want singing I'll listen to Lauryn Hill, but even then I don't miss her. She dropped a good album and a good MTV unplugged album, but there are plenty of other singers out there who can fill that void. Sade comes to mind. They're not the same, but Sade takes me away with her songs, something Lauryn's music failed to do.
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- Anonymous1 decade ago
I miss her everyday and listen to her album all the time. Here is what she's been up to...I wish she'd put out some new music...I'm always checking out her MySpace and Wiki praying that she'll put out a new album:
Hill has been slowly working on a new album and in November 2004 shot a music video. The album had a slated street date of November 2005, and neither it nor the music video have been released. It was also reported that as of 2003, Columbia Records had spent more than $2.5 million funding Hill's new album, mostly spent on installing a recording studio in the singer's Miami apartment and flying different musicians around the country.
In 2004, Hill began selling a pay-per-view music video of the song "Social Drugs" through her website. Those who purchase the $15 video would only be able to view it three times before it expired. In addition to the video, Hill began selling autographed posters and Polaroids through her website, with some items listed at upwards of $500.
In 2005, she told USA Today, "If I make music now, it will only be to provide information to my own children. If other people benefit from it, then so be it." When asked how she now felt about the songs on 2.0, she stated "a lot of the songs were transitional. The music was about how I was feeling at the time, even though I was documenting my distress as well as my bursts of joy."
She has toured several times in recent years, though most of her concerts have received mixed reviews. Hill is often late to concerts (sometimes by over two hours) and reconfigures her well-known hits in to "unrecognizable scat chants" while "sporting frizzy orange hair and exaggerated makeup". On some occasions, fans have booed her and left early; some fans have also demanded their money back after concerts.
On October 6, 2005, Lauryn Hill emceed and performed two songs at the Take Back TV concert launching Al Gore's CurrentTV.
In June 2007, Sony records said though Hill has "consistently recorded over the past decade" and has what amounts to "a library of unreleased material in the vault", she had recently re-entered the studio "with the goal of making a new LP." Later that same year, Think Differently music quietly released a 22 track compilation titled Ms. Hill which featured cuts from The Miseducation, various soundtracks contributions and other "unreleased" songs. It features guest appearances from D'Angelo, Rah Digga and John Forté. It is unclear if the album is sanctioned by the artist — many of the songs are obviously in unfinished format and clock in at under one minute — but it is currently listed on AllMusic and Amazon.
Reports in mid-2008 claimed that Columbia Records currently believe Lauryn Hill to be "on hiatus." Rohan Marley disputed these claims, telling an interviewer that Hill has enough material for several albums: "She writes music in the bathroom, on toilet paper, on the wall. She writes it in the mirror if the mirror smokes up. She writes constantly. This woman does not sleep". One of the few public appearances Hill made in 2008 was at a Martha Stewart book-signing in New Jersey, perplexing some in the press.
On November 4, 2008, Hill was scheduled to perform at the Avo Session Basel music festival in Basel, Switzerland. Her concert was canceled "for personal reasons".
In April 2009, it was reported that Hill would engage in a 10 day tour of European summer festivals during mid-July of that year. On June 10, Hill's management informed the promoters of the Stockholm Jazz Festival, which she was scheduled to headline, that she would not be performing due to unspecified "health reasons. " Shortly afterward, the rest of the tour was canceled as well.
In January 2010 Lauryn Hill returned to the live stage and performed in stops across New Zealand and Australia on the 'Raggamuffin Festival' - A music festival that celebrates reggae music. She performed songs from the Miseducation album and some Fugees hits. Other Artists included Shaggy, Julian Marley, Sly and Robbie, Sola Rosa, Katchafire and more. Wyclef Jean was also slated to perform but pulled out in the last minute due to the earth quake devastation that took place in Haiti.
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- :)Lv 41 decade ago
OMG i thought i was the only one.
she is my favorite rapper!
my fav songs are lost ones
and doo wop that thing.
omg i mss lauryn hill so bad you don't even know.
- ♥PYT♥™Lv 61 decade ago
Yes, she was amazing. I loved her songs, and still do. She was great with the Fugees.
Lauryn needs to make a comeback.
- ?Lv 61 decade ago
she was great with and without the rest of the Fugees.
The Miseducation was a great album.
but shes crazy. she imposed herself into exile refraining from social contact for about two or three years. (i apologize if the term "crazy" offends anyone)
- Anonymous5 years ago
One of the top 5 best rappers in the world.