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In 1994, two Hatians and a hot chick from New Jersey, who was then better known as Rita from SIster Act 2 (and as an elevator operator from Steven Soderbergh's early film King of The Hill), released their debut album as The Fugees. Their CD,, was released by Ruffhouse/Columbia to almost zero fanfare, yet somehow it sold over two million copies worldwide. I'm just guessing here, but I believe that most of the two million buyers thought that their debut was just more of the same from their breakout album The Score.

But they could not have been more wrong. You see, The Score is, for the most part, entertaining. Has given me a terrible fucking headache that I'm still trying to recover from. From what I understand, The Fugees's live shows were pretty, well, live, and that led to their eventual record deal. Lauryn Hill had not yet found that perfect balance between rapping and singing, instead opting to go the emcee route. Wyclef Jean wasn't yet ubiquitous and annoying as shit. (Full disclosure: I liked Clef's The Carnival, so this shouldn't be read as an attack.) And Pras sucked.

(You can read into that whatever you want.) The album spawned three singles, two of which folks in the underground were looking out for, caring and nurturing them as if it were their own seed. The leadoff twelve inch, ' Boof Baf', if easily one of the worst first singles I have heard in my years as a hip hop historian. If you heard this song, and then listened to, fuck, anything from The Score (except for ' Killin' 'Em Softly, a cover which I cannot stand), you would be hard pressed to find any similarity between the two groups. 'Nappy Heads', the original, sounds passable, with some hard ass drums and a great horn sample, but the rhymes aren't polished; it sounds as if they woke up that morning and decided that rapping would be a good source of income.

The Fugees released a version remixed by Salaam Remi (now known for his awesome work with Nas) which is the best song on this waste of plastic. As for the third single, 'Vocab', this is the song that has caused me the most grief. You see, the video version was a fucking remix, one that doesn't appear on this CD. (In fact, it wouldn't surface again until Bootleg Versions, their EP of rare and unreleased material.) The remix sounds great, starting off with Lauryn's voice, which just invites you into the Refugee world, before the drums kick in. 10th tamil book pdf.

The original version, in contrast, has a more acoustic sound with the same guitar lick, but the song doesn't work, as the rhymes seem forced. The beats presented here aren't very distinctive, either. 'Refugees On The Mic' and ' Livin' Like There Ain't No Tomorrow' sound exactly the same to me.

Clef sounds like he's rhyming with his last breath during every single bar. Lauryn Hill doesn't really sing here, which is weird, since her voice is one of the most distinctive things she has going for her musically. Pras, well, there isn't anything I can really say other than he wasn't any good back then, either. Is puzzling in that, somehow, The Fugees were allowed to record a second album, and then their career took off. This album isn't very good, and I wouldn't recommend this to anyone, since life is too short. Go get The Score instead.

That's a fair question, I guess. The answer would be, for the last twenty-six years. The point of my blog, as a whole, is to bring up albums that are either considered to be 'classics' to see if they still hold up, or to point out that your favorite artists have had missteps along their way to greatness.

I'm not one of those hip hop stans that claims that every single song from my favorite artists is the best shit ever, as evidenced by my Wu-Tang reviews, and they're my favorite fucking group ever. And yes, I listened to it recently and wrote a review on it. That's the fucking POINT. And it doesn't hold up at all. My opinion stands.