Best Selling Albums Series: Fugees - The Score

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The Score is the second and final studio album by hip hop trio Fugees. The album was released on February 13, 1996 on Columbia Records. The album was primarily produced by the Fugees themselves, erry Duplessis and Warren Riker, with additional production by Salaam Remi, John Forté, Diamond D and Shawn King. The album was recorded between June and November 1995. The album features a wide range of samples and instrumentation, with many aspects of alternative hip hop that would come to dominate the hip-hop music scene in the mid- to late-1990s.

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The Score was a huge commercial success, selling more than 21 million copies worldwide. It also topped the US Billboard 200 chart upon its release. And it also topped the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart for eight weeks, the longest stay at number one for a hip hop group, and also topped the 1996 year-end chart. The album The Score became the third best-selling album of 1996 in the United States and led to the group gaining worldwide recognition.

The album received generally positive reviews and was nominated for Album of the Year at the 39th Grammy Awards, winning the Grammy Award for Best Rap Album and Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal for the song "Killing Me Softly". Additionally, the album was included on the list of 200 Definitive Albums in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. As of February 2021, The Score has been certified seven-times platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). And it is the best-selling album by an American hip hop group in France, and the album was certified Diamond. If you want to learn more about The Score album, you can check it out here. If you want to know more about Fugees, you can check it out here.

Information about The Score Album

Released : February 13, 1996
Recorded : June–November 1995
Genre : Alternative Hip Hop - Progressive Rap
Length : 60:52
Label : Columbia Records - Ruffhouse Records
Producer : Prakazrel "Pras" - Wyclef - Lauryn Hill - Jerry "Te Bass" Duplessis - Diamond D - John Forté - Shawn King - Warren Riker - Salaam Remi

Track Listing

"Red Intro"
"How Many Mics"
"Ready or Not"
"Zealots"
"The Beast"
"Fu-Gee-La"
"Family Business"
"Killing Me Softly"
"The Score"
"The Mask"
"Cowboys"
"No Woman, No Cry"
"Manifest"/"Outro"
"Fu-Gee-La" Bonus tracks (CD only)
"Fu-Gee-La" Bonus tracks (CD only)
"Mista Mista" Bonus tracks (CD only)
"Fu-Gee-La" Bonus tracks (CD only)

If you want to listen to all the songs in The Score Album: Spotify Playlist - Apple Music Playlist - Youtube Playlist

To evaluate The Score album in general; The album is truly amazing and has received critical acclaim over the years, becoming one of the best albums of the 1990s as well as one of the best hip hop albums of all time. There are great songs on The Score album, but my favorites are "Ready or Not" and "Killing Me Softly". Really, both are great songs, it's hard to say which one is more great.

Fugees - Ready or Not

"Ready or Not" is a song that advocates life-changing reflections on incarceration, exile, and bravado. Wyclef Jean's opening verse captures the harrowing reality of prison life, Pras Michel shares deep insights into the refugee experience, and Lauryn Hill's closing lines are a testament to her unrivaled presenting skills. "Ready or Not" is a hip hop classic that a trailblazer in a sea of mediocrity and undoubtedly cemented its place in music history.

Lyrics

[Chorus: Lauryn Hill & Wyclef Jean]
Ready or not, here I come, you can't hide
Gonna find you and take it slowly
Ready or not (Uh-huh), here I come, you can't hide
Gonna find you and make you want me (Yo)

[Verse 1: Wyclef Jean & Lauryn Hill]
Now that I escape, sleepwalk awake (Yeah)
Those who could relate know the world ain't cake
Jail bars ain't golden gates, those who fake, they break
When they meet their four hundred-pound mate
If I could rule the world (If I ruled the world), everyone would have a gun
In the ghetto. of course, when giddy-upping on their horse
I kick a rhyme drinking moonshine
I pour a sip on the concrete for the deceased
But, no, don't weep, Wyclef's in a state of sleep
Thinking 'bout the robbery that I did last week
Money in the bag, banker looked like a drag
I want to play with pelicans from here to Baghdad
Gun blast, think fast, I think I'm hit
My girl pinched my hips to see if I still exist
I think not, I'll send a letter to my friends
A born again hooligan only to be king again

[Chorus: Lauryn Hill & Wyclef Jean]
Ready or not, here I come, you can't hide
Gonna find you and take it slowly
Ready or not (Uh-huh), here I come, you can't hide
Gonna find you and make you want me (Yo, yo, yo, yo)

[Verse 2: Lauryn Hill & Wyclef Jean]
I play my enemies like a game of chess
Where I rest, no stress if you don't smoke sess
Lest I must confess, my destiny's manifest
In some Gore-Tex and sweats, I make treks like I'm homeless
Rap orgies with Porgy and Bess
Capture your bounty like Eliot Ness, yes
Bless you if you represent the Fu
But I'll hex you with some witch's brew if you're doo-doo
Voodoo, I can do what you do, easy
Believe me, fronting niggas give me heebie-jeebies (Ha)
So while you imitating Al Capone
I'll be Nina Simone and defecating on your microphone

[Chorus: Lauryn Hill]
Ready or not, here I come, you can't hide
Gonna find you and take it slowly

[Bridge: Lauryn Hill]
You can't run away from these styles I got, oh, baby
Hey, baby, 'cause I got a lot, oh, yeah
And anywhere you go, my whole crew gonna know, oh, baby
Hey, baby, you can't hide from the block, oh, no

[Verse 3: Pras, Pras & Lauryn Hill]
Ready or not, refugees taking over
The Buffalo Soldier, dreadlock Rasta
On the twelfth hour, fly by in my bomber (Drop bombs)
Crews run for cover, now they're under, pushing up flowers
Superfly, true lies, do or die (He's super fly)
Toss me high, only puff lye with my crew from Lakay
I refugee from Guantanamo Bay
Dance around the border like I'm Cassius Clay (Yes, sir)

[Chorus: Lauryn Hill & Wyclef Jean]
Ready or not, here I come, you can't hide (Ayo, nobody move)
Gonna find you and take it slowly
Ready or not (Uh-huh), here I come, you can't hide (Ayo, nobody move)
Gonna find you and make you want me (Come on)
Ready or not, here I come, you can't hide (You know the—)
Gonna find you and take it slowly (You know)
Ready or not (Uh-huh), here I come, you can't hide
Gonna find you and make you want me

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Songwriters: Roma Ryan / Eithne Ni Bhraonain / Nicky Ryan / Thomas Randolph Bell / William Alexander Hart

Fugees - Killing Me Softly

While "Killing Me Softly" is a remake of Roberta Flack's classic, The Fugees have managed to imbue it with their own captivating spin. And the Fugees turned this R&B song into a hip-hop classic. "Killing Me Softly" is about a woman who listens to a singer perform a song that reaches her. This amazing song is the Fugees' signature song and award-winning song.

Lyrics

[Chorus: Lauryn Hill]
Strumming my pain with his fingers
Singing my life with his words
Killing me softly with his song
Killing me softly with his song
Telling my whole life with his words
Killing me softly with his song

[Ad-libs: Wyclef Jean & Lauryn Hill]
(Ah!) Yooo! (Yeah! Yeah!)
This is Wyclef, Refugee Camp (L-Boogie up in here)
Pra'zrel, (Pra'zrel up in here! Ha! Ha!)
Lil' Base sits up there on the base (Refugees up in here)
While I'm on this... I got my girl L (Ah, ah)
One time (One time), one time, (One time)
Ayo, L, you know you got the lyrics

[Verse 1: Lauryn Hill]
I heard he sang a good song
I heard he had a style
And so I came to see him
And listen for a while
And there he was
This young boy, stranger to my eyes

[Chorus: Lauryn Hill & Wyclef Jean]
Strumming my pain with his fingers (One time, one time)
Singing my life with his words (Two times, two times)
Killing me softly with this song
Killing me softly with his song
Telling my whole life with his words
Killing me softly with his song
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[Verse 2: Lauryn Hill]
I felt all flushed with fever
Embarrassed by the crowd
I felt he found my letters
Then read each one out loud
I prayed that he would finish
But he just kept right on

[Chorus: Lauryn Hill & Wyclef Jean]
Strumming my pain with his fingers (One time, one time)
Singing my life with his words (Two times, two times)
Killing me softly with his song
Killing me softly with his song
Telling my whole life with his words
Killing me softly with his song

[Interlude: Wyclef Jean]
Yo, L-Boog, take me to the bridge

[Bridge: Lauryn Hill]
Woah
Woah-oah-ah-ah-ah uh, uh
La-la-la, la, la, la
Woah, la
Woah, la (Ha, ha, ha, ha)
Laaaa

[Chorus: Lauryn Hill]
Strumming my pain with his fingers (Yes, he was singing)
Yes he was singing my life with his words
Killing me softly with his song
Killing me softly with his song
Telling my whole life with his words
Killing me softly with his song
Strumming my pain, yeah (Strumming my pain)

[Outro: Wyclef Jean & Lauryn Hill]
Yo, put your hands together for L-Boogie from the Refugee Camp (Yeah, yeah)
(Singing my life)
Up in here, you know how we do, L-Boogie up in here
Wyclef, Pra'zrel, said L-Boogie up in here
Wyclef up in here
My man Lil' Base (Pra'zrel up in here)
Jerry one time (T Rocks up in here, we got Warren up in here)
This is how we— (Warren up, up in here, Outsiders up here)
Refugee Camp, Refugee Camp (We got Fallon up in here, Mulaney, Mulaney's up in here, we got Val' up in here)

[Skit]
Everybody got a breaking point, kid, and they'll rat on you
The family niggas'll rat on you
That's why we gotta be prepared to take out whoever we need to (Man, motherfucker, I told you I was gonna get you next)

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Songwriters: Charles Fox / Norman Gimbel

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