From Spotify Studios, this is Dissect, long form musical analysis broken into short digestible

episodes. I'm your host Cole Kushna. On February 26,

26, 1997, a rumor circulated among the attendees of the 39th annual Grammy Awards.

The breakout hip-hop trio The Fugies were up for three awards including album of the year and

word on the street was that the 21-year-old star Fuji member Lauren Hill was pregnant.

During Thursday's recording session, Fuji Lauren Hill confirmed a rumor that had been running rampant through the Grammys on Wednesday.

Are you with child?

Uh... Don't blush on me now.

Actually yes, yes I am.

Congratulations.

This is something that was planned and are you excited about it?

And in the sense of, you know know 21 years old and going around the world

no but plans in the sense that you know I'm very much in love and and very happy I

mean I see birth as motherhood has a been addiction so I'm just blessed with another responsibility

Amidst external pressures to have an abortion this pregnancy and Miss Lauren Hill's choice to keep the child would begin a sequence of events that would eventually alter the trajectory of popular music forever.

Unbeknownst to the public, Miss Hill and fellow Fuji member Wycliffe Jean, who was married at the time, had been

romantically involved throughout the creation of their breakout album, The Score.

However, the Child was not Wycliffe's, and what will detail this complicated situation in due time,

suffice it to say for now that Wycliffe and Miss Hill's personal relationship

would become strained to the point that the Fugis would never record another album together again.

You know, I had intended to be in the group forever until I found myself in circumstances where

I felt the inner desire to express myself freely and openly without any constraint, you know,

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