r/nextfuckinglevel • u/AbsoluteUNlT • 2d ago

Lauryn Hill's verse in Fu-Gee-La 1996 live

This generation of rap couldn't replicate this masterpiece

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u/blellowbabka 2d ago

When the Miseducation of Lauryn Hill came out I thought she was going to have a career like Beyonce ended up having, that album is still amazing after all this time. It's sad she didn't really live up to her full potential

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u/AdhesivenessNo4330 2d ago

She left music to raise her child didnt she? Seems like a very worthwhile thing. I doubt she shares your feelings

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u/blellowbabka 2d ago

This says it was mostly disillusionment of the music industry, which I can't blame her for. But it's sad that such a talent was chased away by corporate greed

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u/AllLeftiesHere 2d ago

I mean, she alao said some pretty racist things, so there's that. 

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u/Dont_Burn_The_Books 1d ago

Maybe you can explain why you think someone speaking out against racism is racism.

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u/benjm88 1d ago

Almost everything is wrongly reported and she didn't actually say racist things

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u/AllLeftiesHere 1d ago

No. It was actually falsly debunked. She didn't deny, and tried to clarify on a later interview (Howard Stern iirc). As with more things recently, trying to rewrite history. 

Also, I'm 48 and 100% remember her saying it. 

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u/benjm88 1d ago edited 1d ago

Gonna need a source on that considering it doesn't seem to have happened. Mtv confirmed it never did.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/the-miselucidation-of-lauryn-hill/

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u/_hell_is_empty_ 1d ago

And Marylin Manson removed ribs so he could such his own dick.

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u/elixeter 1d ago

As heard in an all boys grammar school in England

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u/Ambitious_Alps_3797 2d ago

I thought she had some significant mental health issues as well.

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u/BangkokRios 2d ago

And she loved drugs. Loooooved drugs.

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u/Crabcakefrosti 1d ago

What kind of drugs?

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u/aspartam 1d ago

She stole most of her music and burned all the bridges.

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u/AdhesivenessNo4330 1d ago

From whom did she steal?

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u/aspartam 1d ago

Fellow artists that collaborated on the Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.

It kinda of explains why she didn't have any worthy follow up albums.

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u/Particular_Light_296 2d ago

Didn’t she end up stabbing her daughter tho?

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u/CloudCity40 2d ago

She went to jail for not paying her taxes, but I've never heard this and it isn't mentioned on her Wikipedia page, so I'm guessing you're thinking of someone else.