You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. Hill's dual-threat presence, Jean's booming toasts and Pras' knotty rhymes made Fugees a shining example of balance The Score's sonic palette, which honoured the New York area's then-burgeoning underground through precise use of massive hits and crate-dug gems, made the group's second album a key part of hip-hop's 1990s explosion.We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. The former allowed her to show off her reference-packed, thoughtful MC skills, while the latter established her rich, confident alto as one of R&B's great voices.
"Ready or Not", which flipped a late-'60s single by the Philly soul outfit The Delfonics into a rallying cry for Black music, and "Killing Me Softly With His Song", a boom-bap-propelled cover of the ode to musicians made famous by Roberta Flack in the early '70s, both defined late-'90s hip-hop and turned Hill into one of its biggest female stars. (If you use the intricate, incisive rhymes the trio cast across The Score as a predictor, the answer is "a lot".)įugees' take on the swaggering yet claustrophobic sonics of '90s East Coast hip-hop give The Score a charge that remains electric decades later, as the boastful "Fu-Gee-La" and the hazy title track prove. Its lyrics are pointed and political, while also being laced with wit: "How many mics do we rip on the daily?" Hill and Jean crow on "How Many Mics", the album's first proper song.
The homespun hip-hop production on The Score gives it a vibe not unlike a lengthy listening session with friends, complete with running gags that bust up the room its sample list includes hooks from classic soul sides and sound-system-worthy beats, as well as bits borrowed from Enya, Francisco Tárrega and The Moody Blues. This item: The Score by Fugees Vinyl £31.99 The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill by Lauryn Hill Vinyl £25.24 Legend by Bob Marley Vinyl £19.94 Customers who viewed this item also viewed of 1 Start over The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill Lauryn Hill 3,986 Audio CD 56 offers from £1.50 The Score Fugees 1,807 Audio CD 63 offers from £1. Featured peformers: Pras (executive producer), Lauryn Hill (co-executive producer), Wyclef Jean (co-executive producer), Brain (art direction), Richard O. Rated 39 in the best albums of 1996, and 1957 of all-time album. Genres: East Coast Hip Hop, Conscious Hip Hop. The album that came out of that cellar, 1996's The Score, became one of the defining hip-hop albums of the '90s and launched Jean and his bandmates Lauryn Hill and Pras to stardom. Released 13 February 1996 on Ruff House (catalog no. When the New Jersey hip-hop trio Fugees regrouped to record their second album, they went underground-to the basement of Wyclef Jean's uncle, which was transformed into a recording studio and rechristened as the Booga Basement.
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