Lauryn Hill Essentials

Lauryn Hill Essentials

No one in hip-hop has ever mastered rapping and singing at a high level quite like Lauryn Hill. Hill first found prominence as an actor in Sister Act 2 and then began her music career as a member of New Jersey rap group the Fugees. Her rhyme skills were obvious on the group's 1994 debut, Blunted on Reality, but she emerged as a double threat on 1996's The Score. Her remake of Roberta Flack's "Killing Me Softly" helped push the LP's sales past six million copies. Hill reached a new stratosphere with her classic solo debut, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, in 1998. The album featured hits, "Doo Whop," "Ex-Factor" and the venomous "Lost Ones"—a track dissing Fugees' Wyclef Jean—and sold over seven million copies. The album primarily showcased Hill's singing and contributed to pushing neo-soul forward. The following year, Hill became the first woman to win five GRAMMY®s in one night.

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