Lauryn Hill: Family, Faith & Hip-Hop

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🗓️ 15 February 2016

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Lauryn Hill has had an outsized impact on the world of hip-hop, soul and R&B. She entered the music world in the mid-1990’s as one third of the band The Fugees, and soon after released a solo album, “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill”. It was a phenomenon, and swept the Grammys. But then Ms. Hill pretty much vanished from music and public life, in an internal battle between fame, family and faith. On this episode you’ll hear the incomparable and enigmatic Lauryn Hill, speaking in 2000, just as she had begun her retreat. She’s open, honest, raw and very funny about the transformation she was undergoing. (c ) American Academy of Achievement 2016

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0:00.0	Madame, this child is gifted, and I heard that enough that I started to believe it.
0:08.6	If you have the opportunity, not a perfect opportunity, and you don't take it, you may never have another job.
0:15.0	It all was so clear. It was just like the picture started to form itself.
0:19.6	There was no way in which a lie could prevail over the truth, darkness over light,
0:26.1	the earth over life.
0:27.5	Every day I wake up and decide.
0:30.2	Today I'm going to love my life.
0:34.0	Decide.
0:39.0	My advice is if they don't break your leg once when you go in that place stay out of there. And then along come these differential experiences that you don't look for, you don't plan for,
0:46.3	but boy you better not miss them.
0:57.0	Y'all hip-hot. This is what it takes from the Academy of Achievement, I'm Alice Winkler. This is what it takes from the Academy of Achievement. I'm Alice Winkler. In the mid-1990s, this voice
1:08.0	arrived like a revelation to a whole generation coming of age as the millennium was about to turn.
1:16.0	Come on baby, lie my fire.
1:20.0	Everything you drop is so tired
1:27.0	Music is supposed to inspire
1:30.0	How come we ain't get The voice, Lauren Hills was
1:35.0	A Fire, how come we ain't getting no higher.
1:37.0	The voice, Lauren Hills, was powerful, deeply soulful with a perfect dose of grit.
1:45.0	Miss Hill fluidly switched between rapping and singing.
1:50.0	She was stylish and beautiful, which never hurts.
1:53.6	But more than that, she had beautiful things to say,
1:57.1	and funny things and profound political things.
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