0091. Lauryn Hill
The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill
The first ex-Fugees member to hit it big was Lauryn Hill who, with this album established herself as an artist in her own right. The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill ranges from hip hop to gospel to r&b and makes it clear that she's a better singer than rapper, cause while most songs are good, the majority of the (few) rap tracks are full of strained rhymes.
Songs like I Used To Love Him makes a nice soundtrack to the day, but then there's some tracks where she goes a overboard into wailing and I don't know really what that's supposed to accomplish. Like To Zion, her hommage to her son. Cause, it's six minutes of a mother chanting her son's name like the kid was the second coming. That technique (or lack thereof) returns in some of the choruses where there's layer upon layer upon layer of vocals that builds up a soundwall that's hard to get through.
But it's still all in all a good album showing Lauryn as the first ex-Fugees member to hit it big and the only one to do it in style.
