Lauryn Hill is opening up again about her artistic silence.
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The iconic singer responded to a post from the social media platform FRAIM World.
The post listed potential reasons she never released a follow-up to The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, her 1998 debut.
Hill first wrote “I disagree” before offering a lengthy explanation. Taking to Instagram, the Fugees frontwoman wrote:
“When you’re inspired and desire to be principled, what doesn’t get talked about enough is the drain… nor the challenge to find safety so that you can create with integrity.”
Continuing, she added:
“Most see opportunity as dollars only and often exclude the ‘sense.’ The Score nor the Miseducation were made because we were ‘allowed’ to represent what we did, we fought for every inch. Wild success can cause greed that begins to degenerate the art for the money. We’re people living through all this.”
Hill also called herself a “Harriet Tubman figure,” stating she was “running to speak the difficult truth to power before certain forces tried to close those doors.”
She further questioned:
“If it was so easy to do, where is that expression now on the world stage? Systems fear what they can’t control. Creativity is most potent when it’s free. If I did nothing else, I introduced standards and possibilities to a generation that didn’t know they could operate on that level before then.”
In a 2021 interview with Rolling Stone, Hill said no one from her label ever called to ask how they could help her make another album. “Ever! Ever!” she emphasized.
And with all that freedom since the album she never had any inspiration again or what?
Stop complaining garl, u made millions and could have done it again and work with anyone you wanted. Almost 30 years!!!!! Garl STFU please
Great album though
She’s toʻ lazy and can’t be bothered to support her fans.
She could have gone independent or release singles
Yeah! After all these shes couldve been did another album.
Also, im sure if they offered her the right amount of money shell do it, after all thts what it sounds like shes saying.
In addition, to that they’re artists that release two to three albums a year or at once and its ok. So she can make another album, she doesn’t want to.
Makes no sense whatever. She literally reached her peak. She could have done so much more if she didn’t want to pursue singing. Acting…. Philanthropy…. Time management
In comparison and no shade to CiCi but Ciara has more longevity than lazy Lauryn
Miseducation was a middle finger to Wyclef. Then, her ego took a hit when producers disputed her “I made the album all by myself” claim. Then, she was asked to sacrifice her unborn child for more fame and fortune. And right before 911, she got out of the system to such lyrics:
“I Get Out”
[Singing Chorus]
I get out, I get out of all your boxes
I get out, you can’t hold me in these chains
I’ll get out
Father free me from this bondage
Knowin’ my condition
Is the reason I must change
[Verse 1]
Your stinkin’ resolution
Is no type of solution
Preventin’ me from freedom
Maintainin’ your pollution
I won’t support your lie no more
I won’t even try no more
If I have to die, oh Lord
That’s how I choose to live
I won’t be compromised no more
I can’t be victimised no more
I just don’t sympathize no more
Cause now I understand
You just wanna use me
You say “love” then abuse me
You never thought you’d loose me
But how quickly we forget
That nothin’ is for certain
You thought I’d stay here hurtin’
Your guilt trip’s just not workin’
Repressin’ me to death
Cause now I’m choosin’ life, yo
I take the sacrifice, yo
If everything must go, then go
That’s how I choose to live
[Pause]
[Singing rest of Verse 1]
That’s how I choose to live…
Hehehehe, awhh
No more compromises
I see past your disguises
Blindin’ through mind control
Stealin’ my eternal soul
Appealin’ through material
To keep me as your s****
[Singing Chorus]
But I get out
Oh, I get out of all your boxes
I get out
Oh, you can’t hold me in these chains
I’ll get out
Oh, I want out of social bondage
Knowin’ my condition
Oh, is the reason I must change
[Singing Verse 2]
See, what you see is what you get
Oh, and you ain’t seen nothin’ yet
Oh, I don’t care if you’re upset
I could care less if you’re upset
See it don’t change the truth
And your hurt feeling’s no excuse
To keep me in this box
Psychological locks
Repressin’ true expression
Cementin’ this repression
Promotin’ mass deception
So that no one can be healed
I don’t respect your system
I won’t protect your system
When you talk I don’t listen
Oh, let my Father’s will be done
[Singing Chorus]
And just get out
Oh, just get out of all these bondage
Just get out
Oh, you can’t hold me in chains
Just get out
All these traditions killin’ freedom
Knowin’ my condition
Is the reason I must change
[Singing Verse 3]
I’ve just accepted what you said
Keepin’ me among the dead
The only way to know
Is to walk then learn and grow
But faith is not your speed
Oh, you’ve had everyone believed
That you’re the sole authority
Just follow the majority
Afraid to face reality
The system is a joke
Oh, you’d be smart to save your soul
Oh, when escape is mind control
You spent your life in sacrifice
To a system for the dead
Oh, are you sure…
Where is the passion in this living
Are you sure it’s God you servin’
Obligated to a system
Getting less then you’re deserving
Who made up these schools, I say
Who made up these rules, I say
Animal conditioning
Oh, just to keep us as a s****
[Singing Chorus]
Oh, just get out
Of this social purgatory
Just get out
All these traditions are a lie
Just get out
Superstition killing freedom
Knowin’ my condition
Is the reason I must die
Just get out
Just get out
Just get out
Let’s get out
Let’s get out
Knowin’ my condition
Is the reason I must die
Just get out
All members of the Fugees are thieves and sketchy AF