Yes when she sings those beautiful soulful hooks and choruses she comes across as this this sweet, extremely gifted pop sensation with the great voice, but when she gets on the mic she even tears it up harder than Wyclef and Pras, not to understate those guys, they all come together to deliver this amazing tag team and the chemistry between them is so great, and they each have a distinct voice.Of course Killing Me Softly is totally the queen of the album, and makes the other songs sound a little worse than what they are, with the exception of Ready or Not, which could be my favourite.John Fort Omega )5:43 (Produced by Wyclef Jean, Lauryn Hill, John Forte, Jerry Duplessis Pras) 4 - 4.5 8Killing Me Softly4:58 5 9The Score (feat.
Luckily (at first) for the group it worked, probably well beyond what they could have reasonably expected. This album made a star out of everyone, even Pras who doesnt really do anything mention worthy on this album other than be present and accounted for. Thus the story becomes Wyclef Jean and Lauryn Hills - for one shining moment - cohesive vision of hip-hop as a pop statement as much as street analyst. This album is a pretty explicit attack on the gangster rap phenomenon that was reaching its apex in 1996, but like Wyclef Jeans The Carnival its held back a little by playing it safe too often, clutching too tightly to its samples and wandering into a sort of open mic spoken word atmosphere too often to deliver a truly memorable impact. At the time that wasnt so easy to a statement to make thanks to Wyclefs impressively stoic leadership and Lauryns unheard of ability to empower and mobilize the female end of hip-hop in ways MC Lyte, Salt-n-Pepa and others had fallen just short of. Alongside Aaliyah, Miss Hill was a female artist firmly entrenched in the hip-hop scene who seemed not only capable but allowed to play with the boys at a time when the style was becoming pops dominant aesthetic, and as a result she was granted a sort of power few if any female MCs have enjoyed since. Unfortunately, the amount of ego and import contained by the band was too much for them to properly sustain the sort of subtle, easy access hip-hop The Score championed. Solo albums would lead to competition would lead to bad blood and the sort of power play The Score represented in the eyes of many (mainly outsider) hip-hop audiences came to represent the end of an era rather than the beginning of one. That no conscious act could properly replicate the slacker-activism on display here crippled many of the junior Native Tongues making moves in 1996 and beyond, while pop oriented acts found Puff Daddys method of paint by numbers not only easier but less stressful. Market value took precedent over simply desiring to sound this way, and the dream of a fun, socially conscious, internationally renowned hip-hop group was deaded forever under the cold, heavy fists of capitalism and industry. ![]() The Score is still a good album, so easily enjoyable its almost a crime, but its hard to ignore all the sad stories that come from it, nor the fact that for all its easy access its a harder and harder record to truly have emotion for the further we get from the moment it felt like The Score was also the solution. Thankfully, for those of us who lived it, well always have the immeasurable optimism of 1996, as hard as the memory of 1997 might knock on its door with intent to kill. Published. The song went mega on the radio and MTV, and its the kind of song you can imagine mums and dads absolutely loving and going out and buying the album straight up, and then being shocked to hear that the rest of the album is full on hardcore rap A good percentage of people that bought this album after just hearing that one song must have been horrified by all the swearing, the hard beats and the excessively absurd skits. Fugees The Score Album Serial Killers AndIt makes me wish Cannibal Corpse would just make a total red herring catchy commercial and really tame song for mainstream radio for their next album, and then fill the rest of the album with their usual brutal death metal about serial killers and zombie gang rapists, just to horrify the easily swayed public Commercial success aside, I still think that The Score is an incredible album and I actually really adore their formula of crossing over hardcore boom bap with commercial RB. The thing is they dont ever dumb down their sound or their rhymes. It has one of the illest beats ever made in the style of Primo, and yet every rapper brings their conscious rhymes real hard and tight. I have no problem with the use of sung hooks in hip hop as long as it fits the song and works, and all of these hooks are some of the best ever. Its a world away from the wack autotune choruses you hear now in mainstream rap. They just sorta got lucky with that one instant mega hit, which whilst well produced (surprisingly sparse and simple too) and with a great vocal performance from Lauryn Hill, isnt even one of the albums true standouts. One thing I absolutely love about Lauryn Hill is she has this rare schizophrenic ability about her.
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