Ready or Not here I come (The Score: Refugee Camp - Fugees)

Member Name: brownp1

Product:	The Score: Refugee Camp - Fugees
Date:	26/04/01 (72 review reads)
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Advantages: Great singles

Disadvantages: too much filler

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 the songs sound great, however when they just perform conventional rap only Ready or Not still sounds fresh.

The downsides to this album are the pointless intros which are just an excuse for some muthaf**king swearing, including a potentially offensive chinese restaurant scene, and the fact that of the 4 bonus tracks 3 of them are different mixes of fu-gee-la.

If possible download the singles and avoid the album

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