The Score: Refugee Camp - Fugees

There are some CDs that you just want to hear over and over again while family and friends plead "Oh please no, not again". Fugees - "The Score" deserves all the superlatives that have been heaped upon it and more. You like hip hop rap style? You'll love this! Lauryn Hill, Wyclef and Pres in the Fugees come together to produce a range of songs from covers to original which will revive in you that cool reactionary you always wanted to be. Despite the totally unnecessary and intrusive introductions to songs you will find that after just a few listenings, this CD is one you want to revisit over and over again and add to your list of ...  Read the complete review

Released in 1996, the Score was the Fugues only major success, their elevation from the ghetto to megastardom creating "artistic differences" resulting in Pras, Wyclef, and Lauren Hill all going their separate ways to varying degrees of success. This album shows, like many other cases that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. The cd is probably chiefly remembered for their covers of Killing me Softly and No Woman No Cry - both of which feature their trademark sound of a rapping combined with a lovers rock melody highlighting Laurens voice a by product of their Haitian roots. When they stick to this formula on Zealots, cowboys and Fu-gee-la ...  Read the complete review

The Score was of course the acclaimed album from the Fugess from 1996, and includes the hits Killing Me Softly, Ready or Not and Fu-Gee-La. The album is a really good mix of hip hop/rap, with elements of Dance, and instrumental stuff. The album also has some skits which generally aren't too bad but don't actually add anything to the overall score. I bought the CD version and on there there are no less than 4 versions of Fu-Gee-La meaning that almost 19 minutes are the same song. That is the worst part of it, as I don't need all the versions, as most of them are rubbish, especailly when that makes up almost 1/4 of the album.... Generally ...  Read the complete review

I am angry that the Fugees split up for one reason: If they kept up with the music they were making, they would have been great. The lyrics they had were just genius. They would have raised the eyebrows of the rap industry. They were great rappers and they had great lyrics. They were like the Rage Against The Machine of the rap world. With lyrics about Rastafarianism, prejudice, and mostly social injustice in the rap world, these rappers were great because they were (for all I know) the only ones who had the balls to bring up these kind of issues. Now they were good rappers. But they weren't the best. I like fast rapping. Rapping where you can ...  Read the complete review

Lauryn Hill is a great singer and I’ve always loved her songs which she did when she was in the fugees, I loved the mellow, pop songs on the fugees album but there are only about 3 of them. It’s a great chilling out CD, and although all the songs aren;t the like the classics we all know of, they are still brilliant. If ya like lauryn hills work you love this albumn and i recomend it to any one whos in r&b, hip hop or sole music...it has my mark! ...  Read the complete review