The three official singles from that album are Doo Wop, Everything is everything and Ex Factor, Doo wop is the closest thing to a rap song out of those three.
She' "Draked" it as well, which is why she got sued and didn't drop another album once she alienated her team.
And the demo matters here because the success and appeal of the album outside of the rap demo is really the only thing that puts it in the conversation we are having. We aren't discussing the quality of the raps/rap songs on this record, we are discussing it's impact and acclaim, most of which were made possible by not really making a fukking rap album in the first place.
The majority of the songs on the album weren't rap, nor were the best songs...it transcended rap music...not because it was especially innovative but because it wasn't really a rap album and a lot of props that it got hinged on that. Doesn't change the fact that it was a great album but it does not belong, and has not ever been in the conversation with albums like "The Chronic".
The absolute closest thing to a classic rap album by a female MC actually dropping and competing with it's contemporaries would either be Hardcore or MAYBE Foxy's first album. You rattle off a list of the albums that dropped the year those did and they fit right in.
Out of the three singles, which one of them was the biggest?
Lauryn wrote her own raps, so she didn't Drake it. The people who sued her sued her because they wrote lyrics to the R&B records.
If we're discussing impact and acclaim, please enlighten me as to why one of the GOAT's of the genre is saying this about the album:
"There’s always a void when it comes to the female MC world, and she went beyond that. It checked me as an MC because she was pure. There was no chains, no fancy cars, she checked us on all of that. On songs like “Superstar” and “Lost Ones” and “Doo Wop,” she talked to us, she went into who we were as men and women. And that was needed at the time and to this day. To me it was like the soul of Roberta Flack, the passion of Bob Marley, the essence of Aretha Franklin, Michael Jackson and the essence of hip-hop wrapped up in one thing. All that was inside that album"--- Nas
Read More: Nas Reviews Lauryn Hill’s ‘The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill’ – XXL Issue 150 - XXL |
Nas Reviews Lauryn Hill’s ‘The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill’ – XXL Issue 150 - XXL
No matter how hard ya'll try to downplay it,
Miseducation is a Hip Hop album, point blank, period.
