THE SCORE won the 1997 Grammy Award for Best Rap Album, and 'Killing Me Softly' won a 1997 Grammy for Best R&B Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal. Recorded at The Booga Basement Studio, East Orange, New Jersey The Crib and Quad Studios, New York, New York Anchor Recording Studios, Kingston, Jamaica. Producers include: Wyclef, Shawn King, Lauryn Hill, Salaam Remi, John Forte. NME (Magazine) (12/21-28/96, pp.66-67) - Ranked #21 in NME's 1996 critics' poll.ДЇugees (Refugee Camp): Lauryn Hill, Prakazrel 'Pras,' Wyclef.ДЄdditional personnel: Garfield 'Gus' Parkinson (vocals) Red Alert, Ras Baraka (spoken vocals) Handel Tucker (keyboards) Robbie Shakespeare (bass) Sly Dunbar (drums, programming) John Forte (programming) Backspin (scratches) Forte, Omega, Diamond D, Pace 1, Young Zee, Ra Digga. Village Voice (2/25/97) - Ranked #2 in the Village Voice's 1996 Pazz & Jop Critics' Poll.

Rap Pages (3/96, p.31) - 8 (out of 10) - '.THE SCORE.effectively incorporates the energy of a hype stage show to wax.the Fugees have succeeded in creating one of the most innovative rap albums in recent memory. Vibe (12/99, p.162) - Included in Vibe's 100 Essential Albums of the 20th Century Q (4/96, p.109) - 4 Stars (out of 5) - '.an impressively panoramic soundscape, mixed into a 13-track seameless whole.' Q (12/99, p.90) - Included in Q Magazine's '90 Best Albums Of The 1990s.' And unlike much East Coast rap, THE SCORE feels warm and intimate-partly because the instruments are live but also because the Fugees sound so relaxed and casual.' - Rating: A sense of organic interaction is the hallmark of this album.the album's most important factor.is its beats-chest-shaking, obscure-texture-having, freestyle-friendly beats.'Д®ntertainment Weekly (2/16/96, p.62) - '.showcases their acrobatic lyrical technique and restless intelligence.

Spin (1/97, p.58) - Ranked #2 on Spin's list of the '20 Best Albums Of '96.' Spin (9/99, p.126) - Ranked #17 in Spin Magazine's '90 Greatest Albums of the '90s.' Rolling Stone (3/21/96, p.96) - 3 Stars (out of 5) - 'The Fugees are a Neapolitan treat, sweet in three layers: rhyme, sample, and groove.the hip-hop threesome cops a grim veneer but escapes gangsta cliches by playing around with the formulas.' Rolling Stone (1/23/97, p.44) - Ranked #10 on Rolling Stone's list of the 'Ten Best Albums' of 1996. The Score has remained a classic and seminal album for every serious music lover.Rolling Stone (5/13/99, p.74) - Included in Rolling Stone's 'Essential Recordings of the 90's.' Lauryn Hill became an icon in her own right with her solo album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (also available on Music On Vinyl,, Pras successfully released singles 'Ghetto Supastar' and 'Electric Avenue' and started pursuing a career in Hollywood while Wyclef went on to become Hip Hop's political conscience (with a possible run for Haitian president as well).

Internal tension and individual success made this the last album they produced. On The Score the Fugees stay true to themselves and deliver one of the most groundbreaking & influential Hip Hop albums of the nineties in the process. It is political without being pretentious, commercially appealing minus the sell out. Smartly blending Hip Hop with Jazz & Reggae & throwing in some classic R'n'B on the way, The Score is an album that couldn't not seduce the masses, but it doesn't pander to them. The album's appeal seemed endless young people bounced to it, older generations could lovingly croon along to 'Killing Me Softly With His Song', critics were running out of adjectives to praise the lyrical prowess and productional skills of Lauryn Hill, Prakazrel 'Pras' Michel and Wyclef Jean. In 1996 The Score was omnipresent: you could hear it in the clubs, on the street, blasting from cars & high windows.

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