HIP HOP CLASSICS: Fugees - The Score Album

Happy Sunday people! For hip hop classics this week, we’re heading to the 90s and gonna talk about the album that brought Wyclef, Lauryn and Pras to the global stage: Fugees The Score

Sound off below on what you think of this classic. Do you remember Killing Me Softly being everywhere? Was it obvious from the off the Lauryn was the star of the group?

@Henry to pin

 

obv it doesnt need to be said but Killing Me Softly... has one the best vocal deliveries ive ever heard in a song

 

I think Lauryn and Wyclef are equally awesome, though he hasn’t made an album quite as good as The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill. Then again very people few in this world have. Pras definitely got outshined though.

Regarding the album, I have to admit I was never big on The Fugees as a group. Just never really grabbed me. I know this album is a classic regardless though.

 

This is a big blind spot for me, I’ve never listened to it

 

Yassss. Fu Gee La and Zealots have some of my favorite verses ever

 

I’ve jammed this like 15 times in past two weeks and there isn’t a single second of this album I dont love.

Manifest/outro is a perfect closer and has my fav verses

 

I think this came out when I was in 6th or 7th grade. Absolute monster middle school album.

 

I feel like you worded this wrong! At least I hope so!

 

forgot a very key word lol ooops

 

hell ya, actually been listening to this a lot the last week or so

 

hell yeah. haven't spun this in forever but I loved it in college. gonna go back to it tomorrow

 

I’ve only heard the singles, very excited to dive into this

 

I was about 12 or 13 when Killing Me Softly came out and I didn't like it straight away. I think my music nerdery started around then and anything that was played on the radio all the time like that was was bad to me haha. It was only after Ready or Not came out that I started to pay attention to the Fugees and my dislike of Killing Me Softly started to fade. That's when I got the album, although never really played much of it outside the singles and the first couple of tracks. And I still don't think KMS is as good as the original, but it does make me think of a very specific time in my life and makes me smile

I always forget that the cover of No Woman, No Cry was on this too. Wyclef was always guilty of using too obvious samples or covers of songs that are already huge. Pras' solo stuff was guilty of that too, as was Wyclefs first solo album. Which had some bangers tbf.

Wont speak too much on The Miseducation of... as I feel as if that will definitely be a classic thread of its own one day. Just dunno if it'll be an hip hop one or an RnB one haha.

 

Lauryn Hill is so god damn talented.

 

Killing Me Softly, Fu-Gee-La and Ready or Not bring me right back to middle school. Amazing singles on this album all around. It wasn't until later in life that I gave the rest of the album its due. It's one of those classics I frequently forget about but thoroughly enjoy every time I put it on.

 

“everybody wear the mask but how long it will last” INDEED LAURYN

 

probably a mt. rushmore album from the genre for me. unreal how both lauryn and wyclef caught lightning in a bottle on the same album.

 

wow this album... I can definitely see why it's a classic.

 

thanks again to everyone who thought to do these classics threads, such a great idea. this record is fucking phenomenal!!!

 

We have them for R&B too

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This record is still obviously unbelievable.

Kind of off topic, but I decided to go back and start listening to some of Wyclef’s old albums and I did not enjoy The Ecleftic at all. The Kenny Rogers song was especially bad. I also had completely forgotten about the song with the Rock. Just a strange album.

 

Inside Fugees’ The Score, 20 Years Later, With Its Collaborators

 

Some of the beats on this still sound so fresh and bang hard. And yet it still amazes me how the same Wyclef that made it turned into everything I hated about rap and RnB in the mid noughties.

 

I love Diamond D's contribution at the end haha. Anyone know the story behind that?

 

"I love that Cymande album. I made those dudes half-a-millionaires from sampling that record. It was [one of my biggest songs financially] up until the paperwork got sorted out, and Cymande got their cut, rightfully so. When it was recorded, Wyclef didn’t clear the sample. So they came after us, and it was a big mess, but everything is sorted out now. I don’t even really like talking about it. Working with them was a cool experience, and I’ll just leave it at that."