Lauryn Hill
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Lauryn Hill: The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (Ruffhouse/Columbia)
Review by Amy Linden, The Source, September 1998
WHAT DOES it say about hip-hop when one of the better hip-hop records of the year contains little actual rapping? Thoughtful, passionate, purposeful and unmistakably ...
Profile by Barney Hoskyns, The Independent, February 1999
“Observe how a queen do...” ('Final Hour') ...
Lauryn Hill: Theatre at Madison Square Garden, NY
Live Review by Barney Hoskyns, MOJO, June 1999
DID SOMEONE say breakout hit? Anyone who doubts the massive crossover impact of The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill need only cast an eye across the ...
Lauryn Hill: Brixton Academy, London
Live Review by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 8 February 1999
When Lauryn Hill played Brixton, it looked like the venue was braced for a riot. But the only rampaging mob was on stage. Caroline Sullivan ...
Fugees: Universal Amphitheatre, Los Angeles
Live Review by Cliff Jones, MOJO, October 1996
COOL ALWAYS HAS CONTEXT. Tonight that context is the growing awareness that hip hop and black American music in general have embraced a new set ...
Overview by David Bennun, Hot Air, 1999
A LITTLE over two minutes into The Fugees' 1996 hit 'Ready Or Not', the voice of Lauryn Hill is thrown into relief by a brief ...
Lauryn Hill: Brixton Academy, London
Live Review by David Sinclair, The Times, 8 February 1999
The real hip hop mother ...
Triumph of the Hill — Lauryn Hill: The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (Columbia)
Review by Eric Weisbard, Spin, September 1998
With her solo debut, Fugee Lauryn Hill claims a place in the pantheon of R&B greats. ...
Comment by Everett True, The Stranger, 1 April 1999
I'M NOT DENYING she has looks, and talent, and a silky-smooth voice which can seduce even the most cynical listener. ...
Lauryn Hill: Brixton Academy, London
Live Review by Ian Gittins, The Guardian, 21 September 2014
The one-time leading light of 90s R&B ditched neo-soul subtleties in favour of ear-splitting hip-hop on the first date of her short UK tour ...
Review by John Aizlewood, Blender, July 2002
IT SOUNDS LIKE either madness or genius, and it's actually a bit of both. As her follow-up to 1998's The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, which ...
Lauryn Hill: The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
Review by Lloyd Bradley, bbc.co.uk, 2012
Hill’s multi-award-winning debut became part of the mainstream on its own terms. ...
Lauryn Hill: Brixton Academy, London
Live Review by Max Bell, The Evening Standard, 8 February 1999
Sunsplashed homage to Bob ...
Lauryn Hill: Black Magic Woman
Report and Interview by Michael A. Gonzales, The Source, September 1998
LAURYN MAY BE BEAUTIFUL. LAURYN MAY BE BRILLIANT. BUT WE LOVE HER. ...
Tribal Movement: Hip Hop in 1998
Overview by Miles Marshall Lewis, The Village Voice, 2 March 1999
A TRIBE CALLED Quest died for the sins of hip hop in 1998, so the story goes. R.I.P. And roll away the stone. ...
Lauryn Hill: MTV Unplugged 2.0
Review by Miles Marshall Lewis, The Village Voice, July 2002
I can faithfully, honestly say that hiphop is dead. – Q-Tip Hiphop being counterculture, underground culture, that's sorta dead. It's all mainstream. It's just ...
Lauryn Hill: The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (Columbia) ****
Review by Paul Mathur, Melody Maker, 3 October 1998
IF, SAY, Embrace were to sit around in the studio talking about paper rounds and puberty and stuff, they'd never dream of recording snippets and ...
Lauryn Hill: Evening News Arena, Manchester
Live Review by Robin Bresnark, Melody Maker, 12 June 1999
EX OFFENDER ...
Interview by Simon Witter, The Times, 19 June 1999
With five Grammies on her mantelpiece, two children and a charity to her name, singer Lauryn Hill has achieved an awful lot at the tender ...
Lauryn Hill: O2 Academy Brixton
Live Review by Stephen Dalton, The Times, 22 September 2014
READY OR NOT, here she comes, only an hour late. No one seemed surprised when Lauryn Hill kept us waiting long after her advertised arrival ...
Lauryn Hill: Wembley Arena, London
Live Review by Stevie Chick, New Musical Express, 12 June 1999
WE DO NEED MiSEDUCATION ...
Whatever happened to Lauryn Hill?
Essay by Stevie Chick, The Guardian, 28 May 2010
THE FORMER FUGEE won five Grammys for her chart-topping solo album, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, in 1998. But we are still waiting for the ...
Lauryn Hill: Brixton Academy, London
Live Review by Terry Staunton, Uncut, April 1999
FOLLOWING THE phenomenal success of The Score, in some critics' eyes the time was right for a Fugees backlash. After all, what was so great ...
see also Fugees, The
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