(She conceived of the album at 22 years old, single and pregnant with her firstborn.) Musically it arrived as the conceptual confluence of three of the most powerful musical ideas in all of blackness: hip hop, Motown-era soul and reggae. It is an album of junctures: Between adolescence and adulthood, between Lauryn as ⅓ of the Fugees and Lauryn as a woman on her own, between being a child and being a parent. And it is a love letter to the liberated self, the maternal self and to God. It is a break-up letter to the bullshit routine of dealing with men who can’t stop hurting the women who love them. The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill is a declaration of independence.
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