1/23/2024 0 Comments Fugees ready or notYo, y'all ready for the show? (Wyclef in parentheses) Ready Or Not! (Yo!) - Wyclef Here we come! (Uh Huh) All the biting M.C.'s and the pirates, I go run! (Come on, come on) (Why?)'Cause they are old! (And.) And we are young! (Uh huh.and) And while we're young, yes we're gonna have some fun! (Yo!) (Here it comes) Here we go! Skippity bop bop bop, skippity whoa!! Swing! (Yo, Yo, Yo, Yo!) Skippity bop bop bop, skippity WHOA!!! SWING!! (Yo! Yo! Yo! Yo! Yo!) You should've have died before you reach this station, Refugees we run the border! Ay! Ay!.Ay! Ay! You should've have died before you reach this station, Refugees we all go murder! Now!!! Yo! Now that I escape, selling four million plates My beeper vibrates, like California earthquakes But I keep a balanced head, 'cause you're hot, they're not M.C.'s go Hollywood, then lose their spot on the jukebox Still ichi bang, wack M.C.'s get the gong! Lyrical tongue Wireless mics from Samsung Wyclef, seduced once by an actress Angela Basset wanted the head of Jean Baptiste Meanwhile across town, I steal no money to Carlito Mama always say don't gamble I'm trapped in casino No more money in my bags Nightmares, getting closer I slept on Elm Street, Freddy Kruger Woke up with a German Luger Black serial killer, man turns to gorilla Provoked I change faces like Michael Jackson's Thriller B-B-B-B-B-Boo! (Imitating young Michael Jackson) And you don't stop!!! Yo, L-Boogie where you at? I'm just adjusting my mic Come on, yo L-Boogie where you at?! I'm just adjusting my mic! Yo, L-Boogie where you at? Come on! Rapping along nerdily and enthusiastically in the privacy of your own home.I'm just about done. There are better verses elsewhere on the album, but these ones are solid, with tangential references to Elliot Ness, Nina Simone, Cassius Clay, and grandfather-to-Lauryn’s-eventual-kids Bob Marley. All three members put up good verses here. What kind of hip-hop producer goes through an Enya record looking for samples? Genius.ģ. Haunting and beautiful, it’s the Enya sample that made me love this song originally. According to Pras, she was in tears after recording the chorus for this song.Ģ. Sadly, it was the tumultuous relationship between Hill and Wyclef that eventually broke up the group. I already mentioned her singing voice, but her raps are better than her two male counterparts. She was the biggest part of what made this group both musical and marketable. Two decades later, I enjoy it just as much as I did when I was a lumberjack shirt-wearing, Hartford Whalers-loving, awful haircut-having teenager.ġ. (Incidentally, Tupac’s All Eyez On Me, the last album he put out before his murder, was released on the same day as The Score.)Īfter winning Grammys, selling millions of copies, and launching solo careers of varying degrees of success, The Score would prove to be their last work. In one person’s house, it could be sitting on the shelf next to Celine Dion, while in another house it could be next to Tupac. It crossed all borders and drew in all demographics. That last point might be the reason that I wasn’t the only one listening to The Score in 1996. As much as it’s a hip-hop record, it’s got elements of pop, soul, and reggae.It plays to each member’s strengths: Lauryn Hill gets to sing, Wyclef gets to play live instruments, and Pras gets half as many bars as everyone else.There are zero lyrics that demean women.Listen to the three-against-four of songs like Zealotsor Family Business. It samples from a wide range of sources, but still sounds cohesive.To name just a few things I love about it: I simply cannot get enough of this album. This year, with the 20th anniversary of its release, I’ve been reading lots of retrospective pieces discussing The Fugees’ place in hip-hop history. The movie “Twister”.īut one of my mid-nineties obsessions has enjoyed far better staying power than small-market hockey teams or Bill Paxton’s acting: The Score by The Fugees. Having hair that’s long, but shaved underneath. Many of the things I was into in 1996 are, at best, embarrassing.
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