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

I'm your host Cole Kushner. Today we

diseducation of the Miss Education of Lauren Hill.

On our last episode, we dissected Miss Hill's

eclectic upbringing in New Jersey

and a rise to prominence with the hip-hop trio the Fugies.

After the complications of Wycliffe-Shaugh and Miss Hill's personal relationship,

interfered with their creative relationship, the Fugies disbanded, and Miss Hill began work on a solo project.

Assembling a handful of New Jersey musicians and producers, Miss Hill and her team

would write a collection of songs that expressed her experience coming of age in the

Fijis, what she learned through the tumultuous disillusion of her relationship with Wycliffe and the

emotion she felt throughout it all.

It is really interesting because I didn't actually make a decision to be solo.

It really just happened.

I promise you that it's hard to explain, but 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.

I'd gone through a lot, you know, a huge emotional and spiritual battle

prior to the creation of that album. And the funny thing is that while I was going in the battle,

I couldn't see my hand spiked my face.

I mean, I really couldn't see anything

because I was so emotionally entangled

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