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Score
Participated by Fugees
Studio : Sony
by Sony
Brand : Score
Release Date : 1996-02-13
Publisher : Sony
Availability : Usually ships in 1-2 business days
EAN : 0074646714720
UPC : 074646714720
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 107 reviews)
List Price : $7.99
Our Price : $3.87
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Product Description |
No Description Available.
Genre: Soul/R&B
Media Format: Compact Disk
Rating: PA
Release Date: 13-FEB-1996 |
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Evangelismbookstore.com |
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Their remake of "Killing Me Softly" was the hit, but that's only the beginning of the story. A hip-hop trio whose talents reach out into the world of the pop song (Wyclef Jean is a fine guitar player, and Lauryn Hill's a heck of a singer), the Fugees are also all distinctive, inventive rappers--you find yourself waiting for each of them to take the next verse in turn. The beats are the familiar crossed-armed boom-bip, but the group's understated grooves and subtle effects lie low in the mix. Aside from two kicky covers of classics (the other is Marley's "No Woman, No Cry"), The Score's focus is on the stars' rhyming with the free-form grace of performance poets and showing that they've thought deeply about the issues they raise. --Douglas Wolk |
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True Classic! |
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The soulful sound of Lauren Hill's vocals is just amazing! The CD is an excellent mix of talent! I highly recommend for any diverse collection! |
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An abomination |
While tastes vary, it is impossible to excuse their remake of "Killing Me Softly"--one of the best love songs of the 70s, gentle, delicate, sweet. In their hands, it is overlaid with a loud, cheap, obscene hip hop beat that defiles the song (everything after 30 seconds in). They can do whatever they want with their own music, but they had no right to this. You can easily find the original by Lori Lieberman on the web.
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Classic Hip-Hop |
I heard this album for the first time about 10 years ago, and even then, it had been around for a while. I'm not a fan of long reviews, but I will say that this is a classic hip-hop album. You will hear Lauryn, Praz, and Wyclef lay down some of their best tracks.
If you liked either Lauryn or Wyclef's solo albums you should check this album out. Be warned that while there are some very beautiful songs on this album, it is definitely a rap/hip-hop album and you can expect a lot of interesting beats and rhymes.
I still listen to this album on a regular basis. Everytime I do it reminds me of the fact that Lauryn has more or less stopped producing music. A true tragedy, but sometimes life takes people in other directions. Wyclef still puts out some good music every once and while, but it's hard to imagine an album like this ever happening again. |
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Never received the CD- AWFUL |
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My credit card was charged promtly however I still have not received the CD. I bought 3 other CD's from other sellers that day and received all within a week. I will chalk it up to a bad experience and never use this seller again. |
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Fugees Score with "The Score" |
Although the Fugees as a group didn't hang together as long as the Wu-Tang Clan, no one can doubt that their rap style and obscure samples in "The Score" are like no other rap group's.
From the beginning, Wyclef lays down a monologue which would make mob actor Marlon Brando proud. At first, the concept album about Haitian refugees acting as Italian mobsters is somewhat weird. However, the Fugees are referring more to their African American "family" of lower class gangsters.
It all sounds really cool too. The song "Family Business" has an Italian guitar to set the mood of a New York world of mafiosos, where the Fugees rap about the dangers of drug hustling and gangster life.
The Fugees' freestyle raps are clearly top-notch as well. Lauryn Hill lays down awesome rhymes and sings an awesome chorus line in "Ready or Not." And there's nothing cooler than Praz's rhyme at the end, where he says, "With my crew from lock high I refugee from Guantanamo Bay/Dance around the border like I'm Cassius Clay." Of course, not even Praz could have predicted that America would hold prisoners in Guantanamo Bay, but nonetheless, the entire flow is just so entrancing.
All throughout the album is a cool, spacelike world of paranoia and frustration within the lives of the African-American mafioso character. Along the way, the Fugees aren't afraid to diss mafioso rap groups either. In the intro to "Fu-Gee-La," Wyclef and Pras play out a hilarious skit involving a Chinese restaurant, where the restaurant owner goes kung-fu on the Fugees.
The low key, bass-oriented vibe in this album is so entrancing that nobody can resist it. And the entrancing rhymes continue in songs such as "Fu-Gee-La," where Lauryn Hill raps, "Ha Ha Ha Ha, You shouldn't diss refugees and/Ha Ha Ha Ha, You whole sound set's bootie." This is one of the few albums where the low-key beats and rhymes just correspond so well with each other that the resulting sound is astounding.
Of course, Lauryn Hill's rendition of "Killing Me Softly With His Song" might be the spotlight of the entire album, making it an excellent album opposing the ghettoization of African-Americans. There's more than a few awesome intimate solo singing performances by Lauryn Hill and Wyclef Jean.
Finally, Pras did a good job collaborating with a diverse range of rappers in the song "Cowboys." Some of the awesome rhymers include Pacewon, Rah Digga, who was rapping with Busta Rhymes in the Flipmode Squad, and Young Zee from The Outsiders. All in all, they rock the house with freestyles on blazing guns, blazing in their saddles and, ahem, drug blazing.
While I did get a little tired of hearing the two remixes of "Fu-Gee-La," I still love this album, which distinctly blends the Fu-Gee-La raps of Wyclef, Lauryn Hill and Praz with the Italian vibe of "The Godfather." It's more melodic than a Wu-Tang Clan album could ever be, and it has so much more soul than any other rap album out there. |
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