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...cousin and frequent producing partner Jerry Duplessis plays along on bass guitar. The pair, who are here to tape a rendition of the Police song Walking on the Moon for the pilot of an MTV series on musical influences, are indulging in an unscheduled jam. Wyclef, who with Lauryn Hill and Prakazrel ("Pras") Michel made up the Grammy-winning hip-hop trio the Fugees, pounds out a rock beat, shifts to something funkier and finally settles into a reggae groove that sounds distinctly like Bob Marley's skittering Lively Up Yourself. Then Wyclef, who is more of a guitarist than...
...duet with hip-hop soul singer Mary J. Blige (911) and a nostalgic, rap-infused cover of Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here. The CD's most striking song, however, may be its first, Where Fugee At, a blunt call for Wyclef's bandmates to come back together: "Lauryn, if you're listening/Pras, if you're listening/Give me a call I'm in the lab in the Booga Basement...
There have been reports of tension among the Fugees after the critical and commercial success of Hill's 1998 solo album, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. So will the Fugees ever record another album? "People welcome you into Jerusalem to crucify you," says Wyclef. "If we just go into the studio and the s___ is garbage, the same people [calling for a reunion] will be, like, 'This is garbage. They should have just kept doing what they were doing.'" But Wyclef's cousin Duplessis predicts the Fugees will get together again because "everyone will get a big check...
...going you a goner/I spit more rhymes than silicone in California" from "Straight Spittin', Part II." Unlike other female rappers, Rah Digga does not rhyme about sexuality or the gangster life: she is a B-girl of the classic mold. In this respect, one could compare Rah Digga to Lauryn Hill, although Rah Digga is probably the better...
...lyrical roots of Afro-American culture run deep and wide. From Louis Armstrong to Lauryn Hill from Marvin Gaye to Michael Jackson, the Afro-American tradition has been infused with rhythm and blues, fervor and funk. Thus it seems only appropriate that the Afro-American Studies Department has been endowed with a chair for a permanent professorship dedicated to the study of black music. We wholeheartedly welcome the new addition...