Lauryn Hill

[miaedu]

Lauryn Hill hasn't performed live in nearly three years, but the reclusive rapper and soul singer surfaced on Saturday (Jan. 23) for a surprise performance at the Raggamuffin music festival in New Zealand. Hill performed "Doo Wop (That Thing)" -- a throwback from her Grammy-winning album "The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill" -- and a YouTube video of her performance is now reassuring fans that she hasn't lost her magic.

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZylfB36RgEg[/ame]

http://www.billboard.com/news#/news/lauryn-hill-surfaces-at-raggamuffin-music-1004061672.story

 

[miaedu]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFKIN8P2hE8[/ame]

 

[bostonboy20]

man the Miseducation of Lauryn Hill was a fantastic album...wish she didn't go all crazy and such...lol

 

[Anton98]

The Miseducation is always on repeat on my iPod. I remember being excited back in 2005, when the Fugees where going to get back together. Now none of them are talking to each other. She still signed to Columbia Records, but I doubt she will ever come back. She too far off the deep end.

 

[80KGold]

@ message #1: Oooooo! She said, "fuck" and "ass." I'm gon' tell it.

I liked the scratching.

Lauryn, two words: New material.

 

[jizzeater]

Ready or not, here I come, you can't hide. Gonna find you and take it slowly.
Ready or not, here I come, you can't hide. Gonna find you, and make you want me.

 

[miaedu]

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[miaedu]

a little better quality:

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMQouDhv3hk[/ame]

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[gogol2009]

Do you have any idea how much I love this womans voice?! I listened to "miseducation" from beginning to end at least once a day everday for a year! I'm so disappointed that she is throwing away her gift for music- sounds like she isn't caring for her voice either- she sounds horrible in that video

 

[EvilTwinTwo]

maybe this is baby steps. hope she comes back for good.

 

[miaedu]

Lauryn Hill, A Tribe Called Quest, Snoop Added to Rock the Bells

Lauryn Hill, A Tribe Called Quest, DJ Premier and Snoop Dogg have been added to the lineup of this year's Rock the Bells festival.

A Tribe Called Quest will perform its platinum-selling album "Midnight Marauders" -- which reached a peak of No. 8 on the Billboard 200 in its entirety.

Hill's set was "prepared exclusively for Rock the Bells" and spans her entire career, including songs from the critically-acclaimed "The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill" as well as her work with the Fugees.

Snoop Dogg will perform his No. 1 debut album, "Doggystyle," in its entirety, while DJ Premier will appear as part of a special "Tribute to Gang Starr." In April, DJ Premier's Gang Starr partner, MC Guru, died of cancer.

These artists join Street Sweeper Social Club, Slick Rick, Wu-Tang Clan and more for the 2010 Rock the Bells festival.

The four date tour stops in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, and Washington, DC in late August.

According to the official Rock the Bells website, more acts will be announced.

http://www.billboard.com/#/events/lauryn-hill-a-tribe-called-quest-snoop-added-1004096382.story

Los Angeles, CA
Saturday August 21, 2010
NOS Events Center – Doors @ 12pm
Featuring:
A Tribe Called Quest, Wu-Tang Clan, Slick Rick, Rakim, KRS-One, Street Sweeper Social Club, Murs & 9th Wonder, Wiz Khalifa, Clipse, Immortal Technique, Brother Ali, Jedi Mind Tricks, Supernatural, DJ Muggs with Ill Bill, DJ Rocky Rock

Very Special Guest Ms. Lauryn Hill

PLUS MORE TO BE ANNOUNCED!
Pre-Sale Friday June 11 @10am
On-Sale Saturday June 12 @10am

General Admission – $75 + fees
VIP $175 + fees
Includes: Artist Meet N Greet, 2010 Festival T-shirt, Backpack, Poster, Credential, 2 Drink Tix (Under 21 non-alcoholic), Red Carpet Entry, VIP Party, Private Full Bar, VIP restroom facilities.
High Roller VIP – $409 + fees
Includes: Artist Meet N Greet, 2010 Festival T-shirt, Backpack, Poster, Credential, 2 Drink Tix (Under 21 non-alcoholic), Red Carpet Entry, VIP Party, Private Full Bar, VIP Cabanas, Catering, Champagne, VIP restrooms.
(Limited) Private Cabana Package – $5,000 + fees
Includes: Private Cabana w/ view of stage, 8 passes, Artist Meet N Greet, Festival T-shirt, Backpack, Poster, Credential, Red Carpet Entry, VIP Party, Private Full Bar, Catering, 2 vodka bottles, VIP parking & restrooms.
Email: cabana@guerillaunion.com for details
Tickets available at local shops for LA show only. On-Sale Saturday June 12.
Alhambra – GCS – 626.282.2649
Anaheim – Music Rev – 714.447.9288
Azusa – Acrylick – 626.334.9922
Burbank – Backside – 818.559.7573
Costa Mesa – One World – 949.548.4030
Hollywood – Fat Beats – 323.655.8997
Los Angeles – Bower’s & Son’s Dry Cleaner’s- 213.749.3237
Montclair – Headstone – 909.626.3900
Moreno Valley – Headstone – 951.413.6500
Pasadena – Store 13 – 626.405.1968
Pomona – GCS – 909.620.2772
Riverside – Headstone – 951.689.4323
San Diego – Armory – 619.238.8151
Santa Ana – GCS – 714.541.0300
Sherman Oaks – Basement – 818.817.3114
West Covina – Store 13 – 626.430.6650
Whittier – Music Rev – 562.692.0281

San Francisco, CA
Sunday August 22, 2010
Shoreline Amphiheatre

Featuring:

Snoop Dogg, A Tribe Called Quest, Wu-Tang Clan, Slick Rick, Rakim, KRS-One, Street Sweeper Social Club, Murs & 9th Wonder, Wiz Khalifa, Clipse, Immortal Technique, Brother Ali, Jedi Mind Tricks, Supernatural, DJ Muggs with Ill Bill, DJ Rocky Rock
PLUS MORE TO BE ANNOUNCED!
Pre-Sale Friday June 18 @10am
On-Sale Saturday June 19 @10am

New York, NY
Saturday August 28, 2010
South Island Field | Governer’s Island – Doors @ 2pm
Featuring:
Snoop Dogg, A Tribe Called Quest, Wu-Tang Clan, Slick Rick, Rakim, KRS-One, Street Sweeper Social Club, Murs & 9th Wonder, Wiz Khalifa, Clipse, Immortal Technique, Brother Ali, Jedi Mind Tricks, Supernatural, DJ Muggs with Ill Bill, DJ Rocky Rock

Very Special Guest Ms. Lauryn Hill

Pre-Sale Friday June 11 @10am
On-Sale Saturday June 12 @10am

General Admission – $99
VIP $199
Includes: Artist Meet N Greet, 2010 Festival T-shirt, Backpack, Poster, Credential, 2 Drink Tix (Under 21 non-alcoholic), Red Carpet Entry, VIP Party, Private Full Bar, VIP restroom facilities.
High Roller VIP – $409
Includes: Artist Meet N Greet, 2010 Festival T-shirt, Backpack, Poster, Credential, 2 Drink Tix (Under 21 non-alcoholic), Red Carpet Entry, VIP Party, Private Full Bar, VIP Cabanas, Catering, Champagne, VIP restrooms.
(Limited) Private Cabana Package – $5,000
Includes: Private Cabana w/ view of stage, Artist Meet N Greet, Festival T-shirt, Backpack, Poster, Credential, Red Carpet Entry, VIP Party, Private Full Bar, Catering, 2 vodka bottles, VIP parking & restrooms.
Email: jasmine@maddogpresents.com for details

Washington, DC
Sunday August 29, 2010
Merriweather Post Pavilion

Featuring:

Snoop Dogg, A Tribe Called Quest, Wu-Tang Clan, Slick Rick, Rakim, KRS-One, Street Sweeper Social Club, Murs & 9th Wonder, Wiz Khalifa, Clipse, Immortal Technique, Brother Ali, Jedi Mind Tricks, Supernatural, DJ Muggs with Ill Bill, DJ Rocky Rock

Very Special Guest Ms. Lauryn Hill

Pre-Sale Friday June 18 @10am
On-Sale Saturday June 19 @10am
Tickets available @Ticketfly.com.

http://rockthebells.net/

 

[miaedu]

Live Review and Photos:

Lauryn Hill at the Harmony Festival, Santa Rosa, CA

The long-hoped-for resurrection of Lauryn Hill, a dream seeming to slip further away with each year and each incoherent concert, took a giant step closer to fulfillment tonight at the Harmony Festival in Santa Rosa.

We may never know what exactly has plagued Hill these last eight years, forcing her to shirk the limelight, cancel tours and sabotage her reputation, just as we may never know how she became capable of triumphantly returning to the stage in 2010. One thing is evident: in Santa Rosa, of all places, the 35-year-old singer finally showed she craves dearly to be taken seriously again. Reinvigorated with enthusiasm, she inhabited the music, conducted the band, belted improvised shout-outs and thanked the crowd—all in the first song. “I love you,” she exclaimed to a field of fans. “It’s so good to see you.”

If it weren’t for the harlequin outfit, bulky hoop earrings and heavy metal guitar solos, it was almost like seeing the Lauryn Hill of old.

Outwardly struggling with fame, Hill has long evinced a complete dread of pleasing the public (see: Unplugged 2.0), but in a 75-minute set of Fugees classics and Miseducation tracks in Santa Rosa, she refreshingly aimed to do just that. From breakneck set opener “Lost Ones” to the slam-dunk closer “Doo Wop (That Thing),” Hill showed a genuine desire to again fulfill her talent.

It started rough. Scheduled to go on at 6pm, Ms. Lauryn Hill, as she requires to be billed, came onstage only after her DJ bored the crowd with a half hour of clunky, unblended snippets from the likes of “Purple Haze,” “Another One Bites the Dust,” “Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough,” “Pass the Dutchie” and “Bam Bam.” The presence of two large teleprompters at the foot of the stage, for lyrics, added to the slowly mounting despair. By 6:29, when instructed to make noise for the umpteenth time, the teeming crowd could only wonder if Hill would arrive at all.


But grandly arrive she did, in an ’80s multicolored full-body jumpsuit that was only moderately silly in light of the get-ups donned by the average Harmony Festival attendee. “Lost Ones” set things straight in a ten-minute version that twisted through five different arrangements, and Hill’s recently-faded voice showed rejuvenated form with “When It Hurts So Bad.” By the beautiful “Turn Your Your Lights Down Low,” the crowd was in the palm of Hill’s hands, and comeback was in the air.

“We gonna do some old stuff,” Hill proclaimed, “but, but, but, but… there is a ‘but’… we gonna do some old stuff kinda new. Is that okay with you?” A medley of Fugees tracks followed, with Hill even taking over some Wyclef and Pras verses and singing OG sample material (“I Only Have Eyes For You”). And despite a generation’s collective memorization of the album versions, reworked songs with reggae and hard rock elements electrified Hill, who nailed every segue and spat out lightning-fast lines quicker than the crowd could sing along.

There were, sadly, two immediate drawbacks. One, Hill clearly has no concept at all of how live sound operates. Both between and in the middle of songs, she constantly complained about the stage and house mix, chiding the soundman to keep turning up every instrument and microphone according to her fleeting whims. The result was a washed-out din.

The other problem was that Hill is perhaps now too eager for public approval. From the ultra-fast tempos which, even with the teleprompters, she at times struggled to keep up with; to the claustrophobic arrangements for two guitars, two basses, two keyboards and three backup singers; to the “whooooo!”s and the “yeeaahhh!”s and the hasty leg-kicking, the concert had the effervescent taint of a Vegas show.

Realizing that Hill is simply giving people what they want—in preparation for her Rock the Bells dates, no doubt—is a blessing and a curse. She admirably tried for a time to break from fame’s mold, but it only resulted in bad music and psychological deterioration. With this greatest-hits set out on the road, her old fans are certainly satisfied, but what about staying true to one’s muse?

The question was forgotten each time Hill eagerly jumped into each song. “Pop this one, c’mon, let’s go!” she told her band, and “Doo Wop (That Thing)” set an entire field of festival goers aflame. “Thank you so much,” she said, as a sea of arms applauded wildly. “Thank you for your patience with us. Good to see you. Hope to see you soon.”

Lauryn Hill hasn’t made fans’ patience an easy task these last eight years, but let’s hope we see her in this kind of form again soon. Her emancipation might still not fit some people’s equation—I’ve already heard from people who were disappointed with the show—but the trainwreck curse is over and the resurrection is afoot. Now the fine-tuning begins.

Set List:

Lost Ones
When It Hurts So Bad
Ex-Factor
Turn Your Lights Down Low
How Many Mics / I Can’t Stand Losing You
I Only Have Eyes For You / Zealots
Fu-gee-la
Ready or Not
Zimbabwe
Doo Wop (That Thing)

http://www.bohemian.com/citysound/?p=3561

 

[miaedu]

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[miaedu]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Xbq5txJSJ4[/ame]

 

[Nocturnal]

Rejoice! Lauryn Hill is coming back!

Sqweeeeeeeee!


"I think it's just time," said Hill. "I'm starting to get excited again."


Article

 

[Nocturnal]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=key-E4WDFuo[/ame]

Sounds great, doesn't it?

The fashion, the voice, the sound...it's all on it's way back!

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMYd1Ums4HE[/ame]

 

[miaedu]

Lauryn Hill to Headline University of Miami Homecoming Concert

After some rumbling that Lauryn Hill could be making a rare live appearance at the Arsht Center turned out to be false, it turns out she's making a Miami appearance after all. The reclusive legend is set to headline this year's homecoming concert at the University of Miami on November 5 according to the student newspaper. The bad news for all "townies" though is that the event is "officially" open to UM students and alumni only.

http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/crossfade/2010/09/lauryn_hill_to_headline_univer.php#more

 

[miaedu]

Lauryn Hill Calls Rock The Bells 'Something Special'


Jay-Z, Beyoncé, Alicia Keys, Swizz Beatz and other famous admirers join the hometown girl onstage.

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1646731/20100829/hill_lauryn.jhtml

 

[miaedu]

Lauryn Hill 'closer' to releasing first studio album in 12 years

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/sep/02/lauryn-hill-closer-releasing-album

 

[Nocturnal]

Exciting huh, miaedu?! 2011 in music is shaping up to be great AND expensive 4 me! lol Bring it on, ladies!

Just 4 the record, I want *this* Lauryn style-wise. Not really feelin' the one at Rock the bells. smh No...