The Score

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B1 produced for Dashiki Productions, Inc. Recorded and mixed at The Crib in NYC. Contains a replayed sample from "Ooh La La La" (McGrier/Marie), McNella Music/Midnight Magnet Music. Used by permission. And while she would evolve into something bigger than hip-hop on her 1998 solo debut The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, her work on The Score remains unparalleled in the genre; no MC has ever sung with such soul, power, and grace, nor has any singer ever spit as hard as she does here. If that statement sounds histrionic, just try to come up with a list of her peers that sing and rap even remotely as well as she did. Cee-Lo? Pharrell? Drake? It’s laughable. There’s a reason why everyone freaked out when Azealia Banks dropped “ 212”; the skillsets just do not often intersect, despite the AutoTune crooners that have since flooded the pop charts. And even the OGs place her at or near the top of their best-ever MC lists. Yet even after all the praise and recognition, she still felt somewhat unseen, somehow unappreciated. This would manifest itself in Miseducation, both in its powerful expressions of vulnerability and in her tyrannical exclusion of her collaborators from that album’s writing and production credits. Sony/ATV Tunes LLC/Tete San Ko Publishing/Obverse Creation Music/McNella Music/Midnight Magnet Music (ASCAP)

Italian album certifications – Fugees – The Score" (in Italian). Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana . Retrieved December 12, 2022. Select "2022" in the "Anno" drop-down menu. Select "The Score" in the "Filtra" field. Select "Album e Compilation" under "Sezione". Japanese album certifications – Fugees – The Score" (in Japanese). Recording Industry Association of Japan . Retrieved February 10, 2020. Select 1998年11月 on the drop-down menu Fu-Gee-La" contains a sample of " (If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want to Be Right" by Ramsey Lewis, and an interpolation of " Ooo La La La" by Teena Marie.

LOS 50 TÍTULOS CON MAYORES VENTAS EN LAS LISTAS DE VENTAS DE AFYVE EN 1996" (PDF) (in Spanish). Anuarios SGAE. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 18, 2012 . Retrieved May 27, 2022. Kot, Greg (March 14, 1996). "Fugees: The Score (Ruffhouse)". Chicago Tribune . Retrieved March 1, 2015. Reasons Lil Uzi Vert Could be Headed for Album of the Year Grammy Nomination". Billboard. March 23, 2020 . Retrieved February 24, 2021. B3 Produced for R.C.E. co-produced for R.C.E., recorded and mixed for R.C.E. at the Booga Basement Studio, NJ, engineered for R.C.E. Fox - Gimble Productions, Inc. (BMI)

Boucher, Geoff (August 31, 2000). "Wyclef Jean's 'Ecleftic' Debuts in Top 10". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved June 2, 2022. Canada's Top 200 R&B; albums of 2002". Jam!. Archived from the original on November 6, 2003 . Retrieved March 28, 2022. Smartly blending Hip Hop with Jazz & Reggae & throwing in some classic R'n'B on the way, The Score is an album that couldn't not seduce the masses, but it doesn't pander to them. It is political without being pretentious, commercially appealing minus the sell out. The Score was birthed at those early sessions with Remi. Not long after the “Nappy Heads” remix dropped, he played a beat originally made for—and snubbed by—Fat Joe, flipping a Ramsey Lewis sample into a boom-bap film score that inspired Wyclef to spontaneously shout his prophetic opening bar: “We used to be number 10/Now we permanent at one.” It was Lauryn that brought the “La,” riffing on hooks until she landed on Teena Marie’s 1988 hit, christening the ineffable “Fu-Gee-La.” The song would serve as the spiritual center of the new record, and their new sound. Boucher, Geoff (November 28, 1998). "Singles Only? No Longer for Billboard's 'Hot 100' ". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved June 2, 2022.

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The 25 most important hip hop albums from the '90s". Yardbarker. February 11, 2022 . Retrieved February 14, 2022. A5 Produced for R.C.E. co-produced for R.C.E., recorded and mixed for R.C.E. at the Booga Basement Studio, NJ, engineered for R.C.E. Sony/ATV Tunes LLC/Tete San Ko Publishing/Obverse Creation Music (ASCAP)