3/17/2024 0 Comments Common retrospect for life tidalThat’s more than you can say for “Gone Till November” or “Everything is Everything.” Being a one-hit wonder means you lack the critical respect, but you own more hearts and minds. Kids born between 19 will forever have “Ghetto Superstar” at every turn up function they have, from grad parties to weddings to funerals (I hope). However, he’s the only Fugee with a solo song that will forever signify “the ‘90s!” in a way that Wycelf and Lauryn-despite releasing way more lasting, classic LPs-don’t. Pras has had the least distinguished musical career post-the Fugees. Here’s hoping that happens no one has come close to filling the Lauryn-sized hole in music since she decided to quit. Rumors abound that she’ll drop a new album soon-partially to pay the I.R.S. Her version of “Feeling Good” was especially stunning. She did some new music in 2015: she did three tracks on the Nina Simone tribute album, Nina Revisisted. Since she got out of jail, she’s been playing more frequently, but the reviews have been mixed, to say the least. Lauryn’s been mostly a recluse since that album she’s lived around the country and in Jamaica with Rohan Marley and their five kids, the man she dated from before Miseducation until sometime around when she did a three-month prison sentence in 2013 for tax evasion. It’s a forgotten near-classic that deserves to be held in higher esteem now. It’s all but forgotten now, but it sold a million copies when it came out. Which is totally true, that’s what it was, and in retrospect, it’s the rawest, best Unplugged performance this side of Nirvana’s. She has released only one album in the 18 years since Miseducation 2002’s MTV Unplugged 2.0, which was lightly derided when it came out because it seemed like Hill was only performing half-finished, raw songs on an acoustic guitar. Her career since then has been a confounding, disappointing interminable wait. I can’t really write anything about Miseducation that hasn’t been written a million times already it’s a classic, Important album, and if you seriously haven’t listened to it, leave this right now and get yourself to Spotify. Lauryn Hill had the most impactful post-Fugees career, but I don’t need to tell you that, since eight million Americans bought The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill before it was the first rap album to win Album of the Year, and before it got put in the Library of Congress. Some of his music has been pretty corny since he left the Fugees, and he’s worked hard to not be taken seriously, but he’s also the only Fugee to commit to moving with the times and make music that is vital to the pop charts and vital to the times. He’s also the only person to be both on The Chapelle’s Show and Nashville. In 2014, he had a huge EDM hit with Avicii in “ Divine Sorrow,” which insanely, is the most popular Wyclef song on Spotify. The Carnival II was underrated when it came out in 2007-it featured Paul Simon!!!!-and “ If I Was President” was such a big hit he ran for president of Haiti for real. Wyclef has done eight more albums since then, all of them an increasingly more mixed mélange of Caribbean, hip-hop, and whatever other music Wyclef has decided to dable in that year. The Carnival is a weird artifact it’s an album that sold 5 million copies when it came out, but virtually no one remembers anything except for “Gone Till November.” But The Carnival feels like a lost classic an album that helped bridge the gap between hip-hop and the rest of the world, and I’m sure you can trace the seeds of hip-hop’s global popular culture takeover to The Carnival. He started his post-Fugees career fast, dropping Wyclef Jean Presents the Carnival a year after The Score. Of all the Fugees, Wyclef’s post-Fugees musical career has been the longest tenured and most varied, if not the most successful. They lasted through one okay first album and their classic sophomore effort, and then, with the exception of a reunion tour in 2006, they split up to their varyingly successful solo careers.Īs part of your continued education in all things the Fugees before your copy of our April Album of the Month shows up at your doorstep, here’s a compendium on the post-Fugees career of all three Fugees. We’ve already told you all about how important the Score is, but what you might have missed is that it was the last artifact that Fugees ever made together.
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