I broke my head over Fugees’ Score in 1996. Their Roberta Flack cover, "Killing Me Softly", killed me softly every time, and I died. Over and over again. Some said Fugees was doing too many covers, but sampling is a part of the hip-hop music, and covers a form of sampling. You hear something you like, and then you retell it in your own way. It’s like telling a story; you can tell it as it was, and you can tell it as you would like it to be. And covers or not, the Score made me feel. Tremendous.

The Fugee Lauryn Hill doesn’t disappoint with her solo debut, the Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. The title drawn from Carter G. Woodson’s study, the Mis-Education of the Negro. She says she only writes about the important things in life. Motherhood, injustice, and her son, Zion. She’s trying to recreate a social consciousness, told through music, back from the 70s. And does it well.

I’m hooked, and glued to my desk when I enter the class of young Lauryn Hill, in between, songs. And in between class I’m in love, and in soul. Music couldn’t make me feel more.