![]() ![]() It was that… It was a combination of a lot of things. So imagine three individuals in one room for most of the year. Back in the day record companies put you on the road and said, ‘Go figure it out.’ We were so poor so we had to share a room together. It was ‘Was I stupid for leaving college?’ It was ‘Where’s my future? What happens when it doesn’t work?’ It was ‘Should I go back to school and figure out my life?'” “Things were just happening: One minute we were broken up the next minute we were back together. There’s something about that record… That’s magic.” I don’t know if we can touch that.’ We end up keeping the reference. But we go back and say, ‘There’s something about that reference. She was in there five hours doing the hook. It was emotional.’ She goes in the studio to do ‘Ready Or Not’ again. She said, ‘Let’s do ‘Ready or Not’ again ’cause I was crying. A couple months later she re-joins the group. She stops and says, ‘I can’t do this anymore,’ and leaves. No problem.’ She said, ‘Make sure certain people are not around when I’m there.’ I said, ‘No problem.’ She’s laying the reference for ‘Ready Or Not’ and then she goes into the bridge and she’s crying. I give you permission to use my hook, my voice, but I don’t want to be a part of this group anymore.’ I said, ‘Fair enough. She calls me and says, ‘Listen, I’m going to come down to the studio and I’m going to lay down a reference for you guys, a hook. She had left the group at this point and we didn’t know what we were going to do. ![]() ![]() It’s like seeing or hearing something and your third eye opens.” There’s been two or three experiences in my life and it sounded differently. “You know how you’ll find something but it doesn’t necessarily mean you discovered it? I heard her sing it for the first in the studio, but I never truly heard her sing it until two or three experiences. We all believed: ‘This is gonna pop!’ But you don’t know, you just had to believe.” She’d drive her mom’s car to come get us. When we’d get a little bit of extra money we’d go to Kentucky Fried Chicken and get some biscuits That was our highlight. You mix that with us being so broke… It was hard to just find $1.75 to buy fried rice. Summer of ’95 was considered a record breaking summer in New York One of the hottest summer in New York. It was hateful, it was happiness, it was sadness, it was bitterness, it was lust… it was everything. “‘The Score’ probably one of the most incredible experiences my life. We were able to build incredible showmanship.” She gave me this new appreciation for music. When we got to making the first album, I felt like I was back in school. If you went to her house, she had a room full of vinyls of classic soul music. I was familiar with soul but I didn’t listen. I grew up listening to pop-rock because that’s what my mom let us listen openly. We felt like we wanted to do something that can inspire people. We didn’t know what the fuck we were doing. I told her parents, ‘I’m going to make your daughter a star.’ I felt like it was magic.” Let’s make it happen.’ She said, ‘I love the opportunity but before I can say yes, I would like for you to meet my mom and her dad.’ I think she was only 11-years-old. “After I met her, right on the spot I decided, ‘She’s the one right there. You can tell she was a beast She was that girl that was emerged with talent. She had this innocence about her, but it was genuine. I was like, ‘Don’t worry about it.’ I went to a part of Jersey where she lived met her.” So she thought I saw the Apollo, I hadn’t. Back in those days, when something came on television you had to catch it in that moment. She just came off the Apollo but don’t hold that against her.’ She didn’t win the Apollo. She says, ‘She’s still in the eighth grade.’ I said, ‘Eight grade? Cot damn.’ She’s like, ‘But no, you have to meet this girl. She might be a little younger than us.’ I was a sophomore at the time. This is the story about the Fugees: I had this vision of me in theses two girl. My mom had me go live with my uncle to get a better education in the suburbs than in the hood. Pras: “I met Lauryn Hill back in 1988/89. Hill, and as she overcomes adversaries and allegations, we bittersweetly listen to her past work as a member of the Fugees and her classic album, “The Miseducation” of Lauryn Hill.” Read on as Pras shares memories of the singer-songwriter. While we patiently wait for a new effort from Ms. Longtime collaborator, Pras, describes each moment as an awakening. There’s no moment quite like when listening Lauryn Hill’s vocal prowess on the Fugees’ “Killing Me Softly.” Every listen takes your breath away. Fat Joe Fights for Health Care Price Transparency at Capitol Hill ![]()
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