Somber signer Lauryn Hill was spotted leaving a Newark, New Jersey court Monday (April 22) after a judge postponed her sentencing and gave her two weeks to pay $504,000 she owes the IRS in back taxes. Hill, 37, fell behind in her taxes after claiming she took a 3-year hiatus from show biz to find herself. Prosecutors charged the Grammy winner with “willfully failing to file income tax returns with the IRS” for 3 years. According to Hill, she wasn’t obligated to pay taxes for those 3 years since she wasn’t working. But the judge disagreed, saying Hill earned a modest sum of 1.8 million dollars from 2005-2007. She faces up to 5 years in jail and an additional $100,000 in fines.
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Damn she looks bad. All that talent.. gone to waste.
She looks like Chris Rock’s crack head character in New Jack City.
Man, I just don’t care™ says:
She looks like Chris Rock’s crack head character in New Jack City.
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OH EM GEE
SHE DOES!!!!!!!!!
Maybe Wyclef can set up a phoney “charity” for orphan kids or puppies or something so she can take care of this bill.
*vibing* Daymn Lauryn get it together and come BACK!!!
The sweetest thing I’ve ever known
Was like the kiss on the collarbone
Soft caress of happiness
The way you walk, your style of dress
I wish I didn’t get so weak
Ooo, baby, just to hear you speak
Makes me argue just to see
How much you’re in love with me
See, like a queen, a queen upon her throne
I rEAD she signed a deal to tour w/an advance and is taking out a loan ON WUT IONo . .
She can start by selling that handbag…I’ve got no sympathy for these greedy ass celebs…u have all that money but don’t wanna part with any of it. This woman tours heavily. She got that money…
these folks gone learn to stop fcuking with the IRS…they will ALWAYS get their money
That bag
Rohan DROVE LAUREN BATT SHYTE KRAY
Victoria says:
She can start by selling that handbag…I’ve got no sympathy for these greedy ass celebs…u have all that money but don’t wanna part with any of it. This woman tours heavily. She got that money…
@ start by selling that handbag.
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I know she got a lot of complaints on tours though. Being late, acting erratic. Wonder how much of that tour money made it into her pocket VS what was refunded or forfeited.
This is the dumbest Chyt EVER. Have anybody ever thought of how this Chyt works. IRS- a volunteer accounting firm.
just sad, Good luck Lauren
<<<SMDH
I am so over Lauryn and Maxwell and their gazillion year hiatus trying to find themselves and so-called inspiration. They ain’t Sade!
@GaGa
What’s wrong wit her PocketbOOk 
lol
Rohan DROVE LAUREN BATT SHYTE KRAY
by luVn_liFe… on Apr 23, 2013 at 3:57 pm
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He revealed the crazy that was already there.
If somebody dont give Lauren them coins I know something
ER MAH GOSSSSH!
that_VA_thickchick says:
Victoria says:
She can start by selling that handbag…I’ve got no sympathy for these greedy ass celebs…u have all that money but don’t wanna part with any of it. This woman tours heavily. She got that money…
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@ start by selling that handbag.
I know she got a lot of complaints on tours though. Being late, acting erratic. Wonder how much of that tour money made it into her pocket VS what was refunded or forfeited.
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Well, she is a whole lot better than Erykah Badu and those 50-11 candles she lights between each sentence of each verse!
good luck with that..she would have it if she aint go all Natural Hair Crazy n shit.
@ Luvn it’s hideous
demons are real…
NaijaGal says: these folks gone learn to stop fcuking with the IRS…they will ALWAYS get their money
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Poor Lauryn tho…she’s been thru some thangs..and it shows!!
Damn, Only thing I can do is
for her.
From the looks of it, she was counseled to wear the worst looking thing to court.
#Damn
that’s the same look she was sporting when we all thought she went crazy and was playing that guitar on the stool
I don’t want any Marley dikc. They can keep that junk
mzwhang90210 says:
NaijaGal says: these folks gone learn to stop fcuking with the IRS…they will ALWAYS get their money
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Poor Lauryn tho…she’s been thru some thangs..and it shows!!
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Same THANG YO Po BISSH GOING THRU
these folks gone learn to stop fcuking with the IRS…they will ALWAYS get their money
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They ain’t Sade!
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I LOVE her
#obsession
Or that bag may be fake. I need to check the inside tags
FROM POST BELOW
This how I know the women fukking with Scrap aint chit. Warm urine packs are so easy to get. You wear it round your waist and snake the cord thru ya clothes. Warm fuzzy pee on demand.
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Done that for a couple times. My disclaimer was I hope they DON’T check to see if ya SICK, cause you is about to go into kidney failure.
I don’t want any Marley dikc.
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Our Father who R In heaven KNOWS!! ya hear meh!
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Yes laWD,I almost went on a date w/Rohan
@SANDRA ROSE
“Somber signer Lauryn Hill….”-Sandra Rose
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signer = SINGER?
Soooo Lauren hasnt always looked like this?
Girl been wearing dreads, afros and sofa blankets since 94 or something. 
“Somber signer Lauryn Hill….”-Sandra Rose
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signer = SINGER?
U KNOW WUT daHEll SHE MEANT!
According to Hill, she wasn’t obligated to pay taxes for those 3 years since she wasn’t working.
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U werent working but u still had income Lauren
Victoria says:
She can start by selling that handbag…
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And get what for it? Two Dollars fifty Cent. It’s looks of no value to me.
Same THANG YO Po BISSH GOING THRU
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SHADDUP LuvN!
Ive just always gotten an eccentric, ecletic vibe from Lauren. Never expected her to be traditional or even mainstream.
The appeal was that she was so different from the other R&B/ Rap ladies.
YA’ll GONNA LEAVE LAuRENS POCKETBOOk ALONE!
these folks gone learn to stop fcuking with the IRS…they will ALWAYS get their money
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Has anyone gotten away with it?
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Yes they do! Its called offshore accounts and dummy corporations and charities and “religions.”
I think at this point blacks supporting the whole country!
Aryanna says:
Damn she looks bad. All that talent.. gone to waste
I want to pick her hair out and oil her scalp 
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BRB
Done that for a couple times. My disclaimer was I hope they DON’T check to see if ya SICK, cause you is about to go into kidney failure.
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Aryanna says:
Damn she looks bad. All that talent.. gone to waste.
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Ive just always gotten an eccentric, ecletic vibe from Lauren. Never expected her to be traditional or even mainstream.
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Ive just always gotten an eccentric, ecletic vibe from Lauren. Never just straight I don’t Give a FUGG.
*hurt voice* Why y’all get the funny Teyanna and Chris post? I am in a meeting that won’t end
Random s Heyu;;: My foot goin 2 sleep and I don skinned my damn knuckle twice gratin these muh fuggin carrots!
I usually love houndstooth but, the bag pissed me off. Still jam the miseducation , love love love it. Concept, title and execution
According to Hill, she wasn’t obligated to pay taxes for those 3 years since she wasn’t working.
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U werent working but u still had income Lauren
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She prolly aint seen a penny of her “income.”
Just an estimation the tax man came up with.
Ty says:
According to Hill, she wasn’t obligated to pay taxes for those 3 years since she wasn’t working.
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U werent working but u still had income Lauren
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According to the most recent stuff I read, she’s claiming she went underground because she and her family were being threatened. Oh ok.
The gall. To think you can make money off of songs you aint write (DISCLAIMER: This is an opinion of mine. Me. Uno. Myself. Moi) and then expect not to pay taxes on the income? Karma is THAT bish aint it?
Whatever Ms. Hill. I am over you. And have been for quite some time. Pay up.
And get what for it? Two Dollars fifty Cent. It’s looks of no value to me.
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*kicks you under the table* Let her Fucci be great.
Its looks realer than the bodyguard’s LV beanie. 
Yes they do! Its called offshore accounts and dummy corporations and charities and “religions.”
I think at this point blacks supporting the whole country!
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Damn now I agree with the half stepper
Ty says:
Aryanna says:
Damn she looks bad. All that talent.. gone to waste
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I want to pick her hair out and oil her scalp WITH SOME WD40
#you’re welcome
Never just straight I don’t Give a FUGG.
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Yes they do! Its called offshore accounts and dummy corporations and charities and “religions.”
I think at this point blacks supporting the whole country!
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Righttttttt. But seriously, 
even the dope boys get charged with racketeering, laundering, evasion 
Hey @Cali and all the Roses :wave:
The gall. To think you can make money off of songs you aint write (DISCLAIMER: This is an opinion of mine. Me. Uno. Myself. Moi) and then expect not to pay taxes on the income? Karma is THAT bish aint it?
Whatever Ms. Hill. I am over you. And have been for quite some time. Pay up.
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This has been the whisper around my way..the reason Lauren cant make another Mis-Ed is cause she aint make that one..
Victoria says:
She can start by selling that handbag…I’ve got no sympathy for these greedy ass celebs…u have all that money but don’t wanna part with any of it. This woman tours heavily. She got that money…
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So she can stop touring.
Yeah but folks are walking out on her azz for trying to remix and forgetting the lyrics to her classics. Thats not the same Lauren by far
WITH SOME WD40
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So her scalp/hair squeaky?
Damn now I agree with the half stepper
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And they KNOW Ms.Hill aint got them coins! She got 50-11 Marley mouths to feed
X Factor still my song tho
It could all be so simple, but you rather make it hard 
We all need folks that ain’t chit. Value you added
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Im is kind. Im is smaht. Im is impotent. Im is neva gonna be chit.
JustLookkkkkk
Dubby
VaThick
MissTaken
I am
@ Ty’s gravi tho!
Never toured or was a recording artist of any type. How many venues paying folks under the table. Won prizes valued at $1200.00 about a month ago and I had to do a 1099.
NOTE: IT WAS NOT THIS SITE
how long till that Marley money run out cause her kids got that name for life, well 5/6 do…wonder if Rita like Lauryn and her bay-bays
I need some grease in my life
@OTB
“Righttttttt. But seriously, even the dope boys get charged with racketeering, laundering, evasion ”
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Yeah. They charge some small time folk. But think about it, they couldnt catch Bernie Madoff!
mzwhang90210
@OTB
“Damn now I agree with the half stepper
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Its been happenng all day!”
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They all want me.
Won prizes valued at $1200.00 about a month ago and I had to do a 1099.
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Cant even put our prizes in our mama’s name
Who you think penned them?
This has been the whisper around my way..the reason Lauren cant make another Mis-Ed is cause she aint make that one..
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I forget who they said really wrote them songs. But yes that is why there will never be a MisEd 2. The fact that she settled out of court rather than fight to save her name…umm says guilty to me. $5 million? She settled for $ 5million. Right after she settled too…the dude who just took her back TODAY; kicked her azz off his label. Tommy Motolla paid that $5 million most likely. The bulk of it anyway.
WHANG
that_VA_thickchick says:
Ty says:
Aryanna says:
Damn she looks bad. All that talent.. gone to waste
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I want to pick her hair out and oil her scalp WITH SOME WD40
#you’re welcome
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Niaja who is the last bd?
Im so nosey on that!
150 years, is caught to me.
I need some grease in my life
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They all want me.
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I saw your disclaimer *ignores it* Who you think penned them?
This has been the whisper around my way..the reason Lauren cant make another Mis-Ed is cause she aint make that one..
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I know she got sued by them folks who wrote it cause they wanted their grammys
Bernie Madoff!
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So fukking true! Thats cause he had they money too. I was just reading some bits on him in a mag article on the wife of the one who killed himself.
He is settling into prison life. The wife was there but now she done split too. Other son bout to kick the bucket.
For the love of other ppl money.
They all want me
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:slapupsidethehead: Second time today!
Naija
Niaja who is the last bd? Im so nosey on that!
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ion know dude’s name but NB’s site may have had pics of them last year
I’m still
at Rohan say “Dat aint my baby. I don’t know that lil nucca”
Also the lawsuit aganest Lauryn about her maybe not writing those songs way back when (01 I think)…was a fed case. Not sure what the fugg made it FEDERAL in nature…but it was. They don’t get their money in the next 13 days I PROMISE that the IRS is going to throw the book at her azz.
Not one but two instances where the Feds is in your shat?
@ otb…That might be true
The album was classic but after the songwriting issue she fell off. Hell she can barely perform those songs anymore without adding some dumb shyt or speeding up the tracks 
@ Pumpkin didnt Mohan leave Lauren for her cousin or something
I know he said they weren’t together and thinks one of the kids belongs to Wycleaf ashy speedo wearing azz
I forget who they said really wrote them songs. But yes that is why there will never be a MisEd 2. The fact that she settled out of court rather than fight to save her name…umm says guilty to me. $5 million? She settled for $ 5million. Right after she settled too…the dude who just took her back TODAY; kicked her azz off his label. Tommy Motolla paid that $5 million most likely. The bulk of it anyway.
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PUMKIN
you keep running in and out my life 
how are you luv 
OTB something fried that’s all
@ Naija But dont you know that I like having you around. In my life…Oh Baby
“Dat aint my baby. I don’t know that lil nucca”
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@OTB
One day, u goin be like…
@ Ty yeah Rohan implied that weren’t his Bebe
the reason Lauren cant make another Mis-Ed is cause she aint make that one.
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I think she can’t because she done lost her mind
Dow Jones?
<—–Lauren right now
They all really did want that nigga!
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Man, I just don’t care™ says:
She looks like Chris Rock’s crack head character in New Jack City.
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So here’s what I’m thinking, $500k is nothing. I thought it was more. All she needs is 10 of her friends to chip in 50K… do-able.
But then she has to pay them back, which means she gotta get back to work to make some music.