The Score

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First single, ‘Fu-Gee-La’ is based on Teena Marie’s ‘Ooo La La La’ and ‘(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want to Be Right’ by Ramsey Lewis, the two songs reinterpreted and inconspicuously and masterfully brought together.

The instrumentation is as it should be for rock fans, a fairly obvious Bob Marley cover for stoners and college kids, and enough soulful vocals from figurehead Lauryn Hill to middle-aged listeners still on the fence about hip-hop. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. Zealots,’ one of my favourite tracks on the record makes great use of The Flamingoes’ ‘I Only Have Eyes For You.

the hip-hop threesome cops a grim veneer but escapes gangsta cliches by playing around with the formulas. In addition to receiving mostly favourable reviews upon its release, the album has garnered a considerable amount of acclaim over the years, with many music critics and publications noting it as one of the greatest albums of the 1990s, as well as one of the greatest hip hop albums of all time. And unlike much East Coast rap, THE SCORE feels warm and intimate--partly because the instruments are live but also because the Fugees sound so relaxed and casual.

Contains a replayed sample from " Ooh La La La" (McGrier/Marie), McNella Music/Midnight Magnet Music. We are grateful to Enya for her kindness and consideration in allowing us the use of her track "Song For Boadecia" taken from the album " The Celts" which appears on the song "Ready Or Not" which was initially used without her permission. The first of many of the band’s albums to be produced by Cameron Webb, 'Inferno' became Motörhead’s heaviest album. Sony/ATV Tunes LLC/Tete San Ko Publishing/Obverse Creation Music (ASCAP)/Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp.A breath of fresh air in the gangsta-dominated mid-90s, the Fugees' breakthrough album, 'The Score', marked the beginning of a resurgence in alternative hip-hop. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. They are often considered to be one of the definitive alternative hip hop acts, being one of the first alternative hip hop acts to break into the mainstream. gave birth to the Conscious movement of hip-hop which has become so important/prevalent in the last 20 years. The massive hit on the record was ‘Killing Me Softly With His Song,’ a reimagining of the Roberta Flack hit.