Lauryn Hill's 4th of July concert look...DL approved?

Who?

It’s definitely better she played to an empty stadium.

She’s been a mess now for 20x longer than she was a hit-maker.

She always looks like she smells really bad.

“mommy, why is that lady wearing a trash bag on her head?”

Lauryn was born late but this time it wasn't her fault.

Well, she is a credit to the Ooompa Loompa race, now, isn't she?

She looks like the love child of Della Reese and the Michelin Man.

Why is she dressed like that in New Orleans in JULY?

She's seriously talented but god is she fucking nuts.

Hefty, Hefty, Hefty!

Empty! Empty! Empty!

I thought she was in jail for tax fraud.

the road show tour of The Wiz you avoid like the plague

Girl really needs to get it together.

I never understood the appeal of her music. Either her solo work or with the Fugees. She was undoubtedly beautiful and had a stunning voice that stood out among the musical landscape at the time. I dutifully purchased The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill as a teenager, I saved up and paid $30 and for what? I listened to it once. It was very hard going.

She's never done another album.

She’s certifiable.

Her sophomore album is almost finished, you guys!

I think I’m seeing her in Gypsy on Broadway next week.

Poor thing.

She fascinates me.

Bitch stole my look!

Is she an alchie?

Addaperle in the1987 bus and truck company of The Wiz.

The festival promoters should have cracked the whip on the previous artists.

I'm surprised she was allowed to go on - there are usually city ordinances around stuff like that, or even location rules. Were there staff cleaning up the aisles while she was performing?

An embarrassment for the Essence festival - for sure.

You can tell by that look in her eyes that she's realizing she didn't get the memo.

She looks like Phaedra from Atlanta Housewives, starring in a community theater production of the Color Purple

It looks like she didn't want to pay any luggage fees.

The MEMO being that black people are boycotting the Essence fest because it is heavily sponsored by Target.

Incredibly overrated by music critics and it went to her head, which was otherwise empty. There has never been a second act and there never will be.

Ms. Cleo?

Lauryn looks a mess. Wtf. I thought she was on the up and up

What's Target got to do with this?

R34 They were one of the first companies to repeal all of their DEI regulations as soon as Trump became president. People have been boycotting them since February. That Essence Festival was pretty much empty all day, not just at 3am in the morning.

more info about the Boycott.

Poor Lauryn . She just can't ctach a break

R16 Lauryn Hill and The Fugees were authentic to hip-hop but accessible to white audiences during the age of “gangster rap.” They weren’t seen as “ghetto,” and the truth is, they weren’t.

White audiences have always had a complicated relationship with hip-hop. They claim to love “real music,” but often that “realness” is filtered through respectability. The Fugees fit into a version of “real” that white listeners felt comfortable with like conscious lyrics, live instrumentation, Afrocentrism, and covers of Roberta Flack and Bob Marley. Lauryn even sang Frankie Valli, and Pras sampled Dolly Parton.

They were still undeniably Black and rooted in hip-hop, but their image was intellectual, global, and polished. That gave them access to spaces — Grammy stages, mainstream radio, crossover charts — where other Black artists were judged more harshly simply because their image was more “street,” more raw, more honest in a different way.

To ME, growing up as a kid in the 90s and even today “The Score” and “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill” aren’t even close to the best hip-hop and R&B albums of the 90s. The legacy resonates with people today but I personally can name 20 albums that were better.

R31 More than critics, the black community lifted her into this untouchable status she didn’t deserve.

She never put out a second album cause the truth is that she worked with a group of musicians and took credit for the entire project and they sued her.

We heard the music she made on her own on MTV’s Unplugged and it’s obvious she doesn’t know how to write a song. She can write lyrics but she can’t write or play music or make chord progressions or arrange a song for shit on her own.

So that’s why there’s been a delay. The Emperor knows they’re bare ass naked.

I swear, some people are so ghetto.

I remembering loving the Score and then it hitting me years later that all the samples are from movie scores, duh! Didn’t the Fugees meet at Columbia or something when Lauryn was attending?

[quote]and covers of Roberta Flack and Bob Marley. Lauryn even sang Frankie Valli, and Pras sampled Dolly Parton.

And don't forget Teena Marie. That was their biggest hit.

The eye makeup inspired by either Agnes Moorhead ("Bewitched") or Kathy Kinney ("The Drew Carey Show").