Many have questioned the decisions, music and mind state of Lauryn Hill over the past few years. Numerous think pieces and discussions have perpetuated public debate about the former Fugees member.
Recently taking to Medium, long time admirer and supporter Talib Kweli wrote about Hill, coming to her defense.
In the piece, Kweli asserts that Lauryn and any other musical artists doesn’t owe their fans anything and are allowed to tryout whatever they want to. He also took aim at Stefan Schumacher’s recent Medium piece about Lauryn Hill, which blasted the emcee/poet and asserted that the public should “stop caring” about her and her artistry.
“In Schumacher’s incredibly self-absorbed takedown of Ms. Hill he describes her as ‘an artist who hasn’t produced anything of relevance in the last two decades,’ Kweli writes. “Because of this $88 is too much of a ticket price, even though he goes through pains to explain that he isn’t broke. I wonder how much Rolling Stones tickets are going for these days? What was their last “relevant” hit?”
Talib also writes that real fans of artists should appreciate what has already been released and shouldn’t expect more than what has been given.
“True fans celebrate what they have already received, they don’t whine like spoiled children about not receiving things they were never owed in the first place,” he wrote.
Talib Kweli created a song about Lauryn hill back in 2005 with “Ms. Hill” and has a long history of supporting her and her music. Read the full piece here.
Lauryn Hill sucks live and hasnt dropped a project in ages,those are facts,whats the problem here exactly?Why is this groupie defending this washed up hoe?
^ White boy/Eminem groupie alert.
or he is just rational? lil nig groupie
Don’t you get bored responding to your own posts it’s a little sad if you don’t mind me saying
Definite white boy comment.
Black people are subhuman apes
Do you feel better now it’s a little bit pathetic at your age
You clicked this because you were interested in the black people who’s names are in the headline and got mad when the comments below were not favorable to white people. lol
Lauren Hills Miseductaion is still a classic n she still Fine
Talib is being a dumbass.
As usual.
Talib, one of the dumbest people to have ever made money in the rep game.
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there are two sides to this. Obviously, Lauryn can tour as a semi-“nostalgia” act like any number of musicians from her zenith era of the mid-late 1990s. As long as the live performance is engaging, then people will come. if tickets “start” at $88, then I’d say that’s steep.
At the same time, Lauryn is what, in her late 30s now? She “stopped” making records circa 2000/01. So this is a 13-15 year run of no studio albums, no official singles. So part of the reaction is that an artist has chosen to deliberately be devoid of catalog at a young age despite insistence that what they do is about pushing envelopes.
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I think Talib’s missing the point. The Rolling Stones have a few more hits than Hill has. They can put on a 2 hour show, and still have enough hits left for another hour. Since I doubt she’s performing anything from Blunted On Reality, she’s singing songs from 2 albums (The Score, and Miseducation…). Plus, she has a history of being late as fuck, then storming off the stage for people being angry she’s hours late. Someone is supposed to pay $88 to wait hours for her to arrive, watch her belt out snippets from 6-12 songs before she storms off the stage for being a cunty diva?
Fuck that. Love Talib but he’s way off on this one.
A big problem is that her taste in music has changed and her original fans have a hard time embracing her new sound. I loved her early work and that’s why I went to see her live. She showed up almost two hours late and put a doo wop, Aretha Franklin spin on all of her songs and I just didn’t feel it. I have no hate for her but I will not be going to another one of her concerts.
them grammies can go to your head if you’re not mentally strong.
lauryn hill is basically the same as ja rule or any other washed up early 2000s rapper except she won 8 grammies by luck of the draw and people have been fooled into thinking she is a revolutionary
Talib is making Lauryn AND himself look like an asshole. sit down nigga
same with tupac. that faggot bitch used the most publicity stunts of any celebrity to sell his bullshit wack all eyez on me album and then the biggest publicity stunt, to die, to make his next even wacker half finished album sell. the only reason ppl talk is tupac alive is because those are the remnants of the publicity stunt to promote the killuminati (trash) album. now we cant speak ill of the dead so this womanizing drunken degenerate retard is a revolutionary as well.
Another wack no-talent artist is Michael Jackson. That faggot can’t even dance all his choreography for Thriller and Beat It was done by homo Michael Peters who died of AIDs who had to be jacksons bitch and let him take credit, notice how after smooth criminal (and he was really reaching in that video) there were no more dance numbers. cuz the homo only knows one or two dance moves and can barely sing. publicity stunt after publicity stunt to keep his name relevant because the talent and money arent matching up and now he’s some kind of freaking black icon. yall are fooled. black people lost.
Just to let yall know my comments against Tupac, Lauryn Hill, and Michael Jackson were purposeful troll comments with nuggets of truth to make them seem legit. The truth is every female I have ever approached has visciously and ruthlessly destroyed my self-esteem, instead of merely saying “no”, so I am very unhappy and upset, and I saw a video of a guy hating on Beyonce “I Still cant stand Beyonce (or her stans)” where he went in so deep on Beyonce hate (after defending the towel he was wearing over his face for 20 minutes) I learned the thrill of trolling to escape from my life problems and the fact that every woman hates me. Thank yall.
Coming from the same dude who was mad at the gay CNN anchor don lemon for not saying hi to him, totally crushing the black man image on live tv with that interview- yeah ok – CLOWN
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I see people talking about Kweli like he said something wrong…fact is, he’s right. People love to think, in their arrogance, that artists owe them something. They don’t. No one forces you to go to shows, buy albums or support artists in any way shape or form. It’s a choice. Artistry is what it is. No one has the right to interfere with it. It’s like listening to the radio, you don’t like it, either change the station or turn it off. People need to get perspective…if you don’t like the idea of people telling you what to do, why turn around and do that to someone else?
lauryn hill, killer mike, scarface, lord jamar and now add talib kweli to the list. If im forgetting names let me know
I just hate you.