Fugees - The Score - Gold and Orange Vinyl LP
The best-selling rap record in the world: ultra-cool but warrior in the soul, firm but never aggressive, and raised by Lauryn Hill’s delicious voice.
After a debut album classified in the ungrateful category “alternative rap”, that is to say, gone almost unnoticed, the Fugees set the upper speed and literally break the shack in 1996.
The Score succeeds in the dream connection of rap and reggae by combining root flavors and hip-hop minimalism: the impact is terrible. On this dozen mature and greyful songs, Wyclef, Pras and Lauryn create an unprecedented rap, popular and fragrant Haitian way. Because the patronymic of the group comes directly from the experience of refugees lived by the Haitian community (from which both of them come from).
Almost entirely produced by the New York trio, the album was catapulted to the top of the hit-parades by the grace of the rap-gospel adaptation of a standard popularized in 1973 by Roberta Flack (“Killing Me Softly”) and ends with the cover of Bob Marley’s “No Woman No Cry”.
Track Listing
Side 1
1 Red Intro
2 How Many Mics
3 Ready or Not
4 Zealots – Fugees / The Flamingos
5 The Beast
6 Fu-Gee-La
7 Family Business – Fugees feat. John Forté and Omega
8 Killing Me Softly With His Song
9 The Score – Fugees feat. Diamond D
Side 2
10 The Mask
11 Cowboys – Fugees feat. Outsidaz
12 No Woman, No Cry
13 Manifest/Outro
14 Fu-Gee-La – Fugees feat. John Forté
15 Fu-Gee-La
16 Mista Mista
17 Fu-Gee-La – Fugees feat. John Forté
