One third of hip-hop group The Fugees, Lauryn Hill went solo in 1998 with the her only real album ‘The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill’, which has to be one of the best hip-hop albums of the nineties. From that album, this is track is ‘Lost Ones’.
‘The Miseducation..’ featured heavyweights like D’Angelo, Carlos Santana, Mary J. Blige and John Legend. It topped charts around the world, got Lauryn Hill ten nominations at the Grammys (She won five). Columbia records and Lauryn Hill got into a protracted legal battle about the credits for the album. (Credits are really important because they dictate who gets paid how much)Read more…
So. Earlier this month I snagged a pre-release copy (cough… piratebay… cough) of soul singer Musiq Soulchild’s new album ‘ONMYRADIO’.
Despite the fact that he never really made it big, this crooner from Philly is still one of my favourite soul singers from this decade. (The others being D’Angelo and Jill Scott)
He had his fifteen minutes back in 2000 with his debut album Aijuswanaseing off which the hit single ‘Just Friends’ still has to be one of the coolest, funkiest combos of hip-hop and soul ever with its brilliant beat-box intro’d bass line. Too bad it was the on the soundtrack for one of the shittiest films ever: Nutty Professor 2. Watch the video here, since Youtube has disabled embedding of the clip.
He followed it up with the albums Juslisen,SoulStar and LuvanMusiq. (He dropped out of school before they got around to teaching spelling and grammar obviously) He had a few more hits and all of them had the same, distinctive if slightly repetitive sound which led to more than a few hit singles.Read more…
