Lauryn Hill
Lauryn Hill
Lauryn Hillis an American singer, songwriter, rapper, record producer, and actress. She is best known for being a member of the Fugees and for her critically acclaimed solo album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, which won numerous awards, broke several sales records and was listed by Rolling Stone as one of the greatest albums of all time...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionR&B Singer
Date of Birth26 May 1975
CityEast Orange, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
Being young and female in America, you watch a lot of T.V., and you grow up on false images of what love truly is. We think the man with the best rap will protect and save us, about it's not usually that way. Then you learn love is something deeper and purer in form.
If they only showed Love, they would own love.
Since those who believe they need a hero/celebrity outnumber the actual heroes/celebrities, people feel safe and comfortably justified in numbers, committing egregious crimes in the name of the greater social ego. Ironically diminishing their own true hero-celebrity nature in the process.
Like Cain and Abel, Caesar and Brutus, Jesus and Judas, back stabbers do this
I'm a mess but God is dealing with me every day. That's what all these songs are about: problem, cause and solution.
Wow, this is so amazing. I thank God. This is crazy because this is hip-hop music.
I have a couple of all-time favorites: Donny Hathaway and Roberta Flack, Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell.
With The Fugees initially, and even with 'Miseducation', it was very hip-hop - always a singing over beats. I don't think people have really heard me sing out. So if I do record again, perhaps it will have an expanded context. Where people can hear a bit more.
I had to learn the hard way some really important life lessons. There was really no one there to say, don't do this or don't do that.
I keep letting you back in,how can I explain myself,as painful as this thing has been,I just can't be with no one else
My mother has all my awards, because if I walked downstairs every day and saw all my achievements it would be so easy to become complacent.
Everything takes place in a season. There was a season when that's all I did was listen to the music. Now I'm just in a place where I don't listen, I create. And if I do listen there are specific things that I listen to, and for specific reasons.
I rarely listen to the music for the sheer pleasure. I'm listening for the tool, I'm listening for the instrument, I'm listening for the art.
I'm making music for other people to listen to for pleasure. And hopefully, later on maybe they'll listen to it and go, "That bass line, boy, did you hear the way those drums interacted with that?"