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...born in Washington but grew up in various towns in Maryland, was just 18 when her first album, Mya, was released. After the modest success of that album, a follow-up single, Ghetto Supastar (on which she performed alongside Pras of the hip-hop group the Fugees), from the sound track to the Warren Beatty movie Bulworth, landed her in near constant rotation...
...that film in which Hill's character reels off a rap as her classmates look on. "None of that was scripted," says director Bill Duke. "That was all Lauryn. She was amazing." While in high school, she formed the rap trio the Fugees (short for refugees) with classmate Prakazrel ("Pras") Michel and Wyclef Jean, who went to a nearby school. The group's debut album, Blunted on Reality, sold poorly. Hill spent about a year at Columbia University but left school when the Fugees' second album, The Score, took off. It has sold more than 17 million copies worldwide...
...feel like there are too few true artists with record deals that actually expose them beyond their area code. Hip-hop dinosaurs everywhere agree: what we need is an independent label to push a slammin' act that just wouldn't flop--even in a world where a track by Pras reaches number one in the pop charts. So when rumors about a Black Star album first seeped through the math, everyone saw the skies clear. The buzz actually proliferated some'm ridiculous. Might as well quote the 18th Letter: "Nobody been this long awaited since Jesus...
Hill is one of the performers set to take hip-hop into the new millennium. Born and raised in South Orange, N.J., she met her fellow Fugees, Pras and Wyclef Jean, in high school, then spent two years at Columbia University before dropping out to pursue music. On the old-school-funky Every Ghetto, Every City, one of Miseducation's best tracks, she pledges to remember her roots: "Way before the record deal/ The streets that nurtured Lauryn Hill/ Made sure that I'd never go too far." Hill isn't out to create bourgeois hip-hop lite; she constantly...
...Texas, Austin, who has written about hip-hop and black films, notes, "The interest generated by hip-hop culture has cleared the way for more black people to express themselves in other areas of pop culture." All three Fugees have recorded solo albums. Wyclef's went platinum, and Pras' forthcoming CD, Ghetto Supastar, has generated a No. 1 single in Switzerland, Belgium and several other countries. Hip-hop mogul Sean ("Puffy") Combs is preparing to co-star in a movie with Al Pacino and planning to launch a line of urbanwear in 1999. Beastie Boys has a record label...