Fans of The Fugees had to wait over three hours for the group to take the stage at their first reunion concert on Wednesday, September 22.
The iconic trio's first pop-up reunion show, ahead of a world tour, went down at the Roof at Pier 17, with more than 3,500 devotees in attendance, Variety reports
Lauryn Hill, Wyclef Jean, and Pras Michel were backed by a large band, including 13 horns and three background singers for their seven-song set.
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"We're still cooking it," Lauryn Hill told the impatient crowd.
Meanwhile, Wyclef addressed the Haitian immigration crisis at the Texas-Mexico border and he challenged U.S. Pres. Joe Biden to fix the problem during the set.
Among the songs the group performed were "The Score", "Fu-Gee-La", and their signature cover of "Killing Me Softly."
Wyclef closed the show with Bob Marley's "No Woman, No Cry", with Lauryn - the ex-partner of Marley's son Rohan Marley - backing him on harmony.
The band's reunion tour, "Diaspora Calling," kicks off in Chicago, Illinois on November 2, 2021, and concludes in Ghana on December 18.
Lauryn's verses are trending online for her critical take on the rise in social media and its influence on narcissistic tendencies.
"Now let me give it to you balanced and with clarity
I don't need to turn myself into a parody
I don't do the sh*t you do for popularity
They clearly didn't understand when I said I get out apparently
My awareness like Keanu in The Matrix."
Lauryn, 46, also address longstanding complaints about her lateness at concerts.
"I'm savin' souls and ya'll complainin' bout my lateness
Now it's illegal for someone to walk in greatness
They want the same but they don't take risks
Now the world will get to see it's own reflection
And the anointed can pursue their own direction."
Lauryn Hill's daughter Selah Marley says her mother's form of discipline was slave like.
Selah, daughter of Lauryn, 45, and musician Rohan Marley, 48, claims her mother's form of discipline involved a belt and lots of threats.
In a 2-hour video on Instagram, Selah, 20, described the beatings she suffered as a minor child.
"And then the threats, the constant threats. That belt man. That's that slave sh*t. That was some slavery sh*t. All Black parents were on that sh*t."
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Selah, pictured with Lauryn and her grandmother, Valerie Hill, praised her "amazing" mom, but she described the legendary singer as a single mother who wasn't always nurturing and often lashed out in anger at her children.
"My mom is an amazing woman, but she obviously didn't do everything right. She was just very angry. So, so, so, so, so, so angry. She was literally not easy to talk to and then half the time we didn't live with her. I lived with my grandparents half the time… It's crazy, I’m playing this trauma back in my head as I speak to you."
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She said the threats Lauryn used were meant to instill fear in her. ("You want me to embarrass you? You want me to give you something to cry about?")
Selah added: "I'm not mad at a little discipline, but what can a five-year-old do? What can a seven-year-old do?"
The fashion model and social media influencer also opened up about her "daddy issues" due to her absentee father, Rohan Marley, son of the late reggae legend, Bob Marley.
"Honestly guys, I'm just hurting. I can't even front that I'm not. I've been hurting for so much of my life and so much of my life has been me avoiding how much I'm really hurting just from the circumstances."
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Selah revealed she has a split personality, in addition to her daddy issues, which affects her relationships with men.
"I have a form of split personality to some degree, I mean not to like you know diagnose myself, but just a form of split because it's like, a part of me stopped growing at the age that my dad left. Whenever that stopped, I feel like something just stopped or maybe it never grew, it never developed... especially when it comes to men, like males in my life. They bring out this dark, dark, dark thing inside of me because I feel like I need them... like I hurt them because I'm mad at them, because I'm mad at my father for not being around but I need them because I don’t have a father so I need someone..."
Rapper Drake sampled Lauryn Hill's "Ex Factor" on his new track "Nice for What", so she returned the favor by remixing the song during a concert at the Apollo Theater in NYC. Watch the video after the break.
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Chastain Park Amphitheater will issue full refunds to Lauryn Hill fans who waited over 2 hours for the chronically tardy singer to perform on Saturday in Atlanta.
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Being Mary Jane star Gabrielle Union, 41, expressed her Love and devotion for her fiancé Dwyane Wade and his Miami Heat teammates, who defeated the Los Angeles Clippers in a nail biter last night at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. The rejuvenated Miami Heat beat the LA Clippers 116-112 to remain undefeated in February. While in town, Wade visited with his 2-month-old son, Xavier Zachariah Wade, whose mother is a longtime friend. Photo: London Ent / Splash News
Congratulations to friend of the blog Shawn "Tubby" Holiday who was promoted to Senior Vice President of Urban A&R at Columbia Records! Shawn will oversee the recording projects of celebrities such as T.I. "Tip" Harris (who signed a new record deal with Shawn at Columbia), Beyonce, Alicia Keys, Mariah Carey, Lauryn Hill, and rapper J. Cole, among others. Shawn previously held the position of SVP of A&R at RCA Records since 2011.
Shawn, pictured above left with T.I. Harris, has worked with superstars such as Akon, Keyshia Cole, Lady Gaga, Jennifer Hudson and Robin Thicke, among others.
Follow Shawn on Twitter.com if you believe you have what it takes to make it in the music business.
Singer Lauryn Hill, 38, celebrated her release from prison today with a new song entitled "Consumerism". Like most of Hill's songs, the single covers Hill's obsession with a materialistic society.
Hill was convicted of income tax evasion in May. She served three months in federal prison after paying paid $900,000 in back taxes.
"Consumerism is part of some material I was trying to finish before I had to come in. We did our best to eek out a mix via verbal and emailed direction, thanks to the crew of surrogate ears on the other side," Hill said in a press release. "Letters From Exile is material written from a certain space, in a certain place. I felt the need to discuss the underlying socio-political, cultural paradigm as I saw it. I haven't been able to watch the news too much recently, so I'm not hip on everything going on. But inspiration of this sort is a kind of news in and of itself, and often times contains an urgency that precedes what happens. I couldn't imagine it not being relevant. Messages like these I imagine find their audience, or their audience finds them, like water seeking it's level".
Troubled singer Lauryn Hill paid her overdue tax bill today, but that didn't save her from doing a time in the federal pen.
USA Today reports that Hill was sentenced to 3 months in prison for failing to pay $1 million in overdue taxes.
Prior to the hearing, Hill's attorney, Nathan Hochman, said in an email to TIME magazine Monday that Hill paid $970,000 to satisfy state and federal back taxes. Hill, but apparently that wasn't enough for the judge.
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. Photos: Kena Betancur/Getty Images
