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
You improve yourself and light up the corner that you live on. You may not touch a gazillion lives, but you can light up your own space, light up your home.
How you gon' win when you ain't right within. Uh uh come again
Who you going to tell when the repercussions spin, showing off your ass because you think it's a trend.
Tell me who I've got to be, to get some reciprocity
What was freely given to me, I freely give.
Being young and female in America, you watch a lot of TV and you grow up on false images of what love truly is.
I don't buy into that whole concept of success that I have this mountain with this moat around it and then I get into my big car and drive to my destination and never see people. That's not my concept of success.
I had an economic system imposed on me.
The only way to know is to Live, Learn, and Grow
So while you're imitating Al Capone, I'll be Nina Simone, And defacating on your microphone
Now the skies could fall Not even if my boss should call The world it seems so very small 'Cause nothing even matters at all
We call ourselves creators and we just copy.
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.
As musicians and artists, it's important we have an environment - and I guess when I say environment, I really mean the industry, that really nurtures these gifts. Oftentimes, the machine can overlook the need to take care of the people who produce the sounds that have a lot to do with the health and well-being of society.