a poll: the miseducation of lauryn hill

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I was at a wedding several years back where "Nothing Really Matters" was used for the first dance. That seems important to mention for some reason.

'forgive them father' is really underrated though possibly i'm just a sucker for female rappers slipping into jamaican patois, and fierce denunciations of haterz

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i think ex-factor should've won actually

lol @ the singles stomping everything out. classic album my ass!

but yeah was hoping "ex factor" would take it

uh, maybe it's just that the singles are so so great

it's got classic singles, sure.

i'm amazed that "The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill" didn't get a single vote. how i love that song!

yeah me too, although probably third.

i philosophy, possibly speak tongues
beat drums, abyssinian street baptist, rap this
in fine linen, from the beginning
my practice extending across the atlas, i begat this
flippin' in the ghetto on a dirty mattress
you can't match this rapper-slash-actress
more powerful than two cleopatras
bomb graffiti on the tomb of nefertiti
MCs ain't ready to take it to the serengeti
my rhymes is heavy, like the mind of sister betty
l-boogie spars with stars and constellations
then came down for the conversation
adjacent to the king, fear no human being
roll with cherubims to nassau coliseum
now hear the mixture where hip-hop meets scripture
develop a negative into a positive picture

<3 <3

Pretty amazed that didn't win.

was just about to start this poll. my memory :/

Member, FreLng-Huysen used to have the bomb leather?
Back when Doug Fresh and Slick Rick was together.
Looking at the crew, we thought we'd all live forever

haha, i am actually hearing this for the first time right now

is there a way to here this w/o those schoolkids?

i wish!!

i mean srsly wtf tho.

When I was like ten I thought that Lauryn Hill had like the most comprehensively beautiful voice and that everyone else should just quit now; consolidated.

I edited out all the schoolkid bits in iTunes and have a version without them as a result, but short of that, not really.

"Ex-Factor" still is, in point of fact, one of the greatest songs ever.

this entire album is amazing. only ones that i don't listen to consistently are When It Hurts So Bad and Final Hour

I kinda don't enjoy the middle of the album at all but the beginning and end are totally sublime

i love "final hour" - love the mystic, visionary tinge to her righteousness on it

now imma get the mozzarella like a rockerfeller
still be in the church of lalibela singing hymns a cappella
whether posed in mirabella in couture
or
collecting residuals from off the score
i'm making sure i'm with the 144

went from hood shock to hood chic
but it ain't what you cop, it's about what you keep

To zion

Never quite got the love for "Ex Factor," possibly because of the strain she puts her voice through.

then u r dead to me

"Lost Ones" is one of the best opening tracks ever though.

What does it for me personally is when she starts repeating "care for me, care for me" etc. - emotional lyrical repetition always gets to me.

tell me: "who i have to be?"

tell me who I have to be

:D

"Lost Ones" is one of the best opening tracks ever though.

and "it's funny how money change a situation" one of the best opening lines ever, especially delivered like that

or lol indeed:

"Lost One." Even though I loved the Fugees album, I was unprepared by how fierce this song was. What a great first track.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Tuesday, January 6, 2009 2:38 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i know right - the no-nonsense beat and then that cold, contemptuous "it's funny how money change a situation" BAM.

― lex pretend, Tuesday, January 6, 2009 2:41 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark

It's funny how repetition change a situation.

tell me who I have to be
to get some re-

ciprocity

A Simple Breakdown from the Ex Factor single is <3

i love love love this album. if i had voted for this poll i don't even know what i would have voted for. and yes, lost ones is an amazing opening track. once i misheard the line as "you just lost won."

Man, those first four tracks are strong.

A Simple Breakdown from the Ex Factor single is <3

do you have an mp3 of this?

lauryn baby use your head

but instead she chose to use her heart

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMYd1Ums4HE

where did this come from? is it from the miseducation sessions?

yeah i think so its been all over the internet for like a week

wait, the chatter is so awesome!

superstar def should've got a vote

I really think "Superstar" could have been an 'incredible' song instead of just a 'good' one if they had replaced the Doors-interpolation chorus with something a lot better. the verses are so much better.

"Without you I go through withdrawal, 'cause nothing even matters... at all."

-- still one of my favorite love songs. Nihilism as bliss-out and vice versa.