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

Maybe it's better she played to an empty stadium

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by Anonymousreply 43July 8, 2025 3:43 PM

Who?

by Anonymousreply 1July 7, 2025 3:45 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 2July 7, 2025 3:47 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 3July 7, 2025 3:49 PM

She always looks like she smells really bad.

by Anonymousreply 4July 7, 2025 3:50 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 5July 7, 2025 3:54 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 6July 7, 2025 3:58 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 7July 7, 2025 4:01 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 8July 7, 2025 4:04 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 9July 7, 2025 4:11 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 10July 7, 2025 4:12 PM

Hefty, Hefty, Hefty!

by Anonymousreply 11July 7, 2025 5:08 PM

Empty! Empty! Empty!

by Anonymousreply 12July 7, 2025 5:28 PM

I thought she was in jail for tax fraud.

by Anonymousreply 13July 7, 2025 5:35 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 14July 7, 2025 5:37 PM

Girl really needs to get it together.

by Anonymousreply 15July 7, 2025 6:00 PM

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.

by Anonymousreply 16July 7, 2025 6:01 PM

She's never done another album.

by Anonymousreply 17July 7, 2025 6:18 PM

She’s certifiable.

by Anonymousreply 18July 7, 2025 7:01 PM

Her sophomore album is almost finished, you guys!

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by Anonymousreply 19July 7, 2025 7:08 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 20July 7, 2025 7:10 PM

Poor thing.

by Anonymousreply 21July 7, 2025 7:12 PM

She fascinates me.

by Anonymousreply 22July 7, 2025 7:13 PM

Bitch stole my look!

by Anonymousreply 23July 7, 2025 7:17 PM

Is she an alchie?

by Anonymousreply 24July 7, 2025 8:34 PM

Addaperle in the1987 bus and truck company of The Wiz.

by Anonymousreply 25July 7, 2025 8:37 PM

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.

by Anonymousreply 26July 7, 2025 8:45 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 27July 7, 2025 9:16 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 28July 7, 2025 9:29 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 29July 7, 2025 9:35 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 30July 7, 2025 9:37 PM

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.

by Anonymousreply 31July 7, 2025 9:38 PM

Ms. Cleo?

by Anonymousreply 32July 7, 2025 9:38 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 33July 7, 2025 9:39 PM

What's Target got to do with this?

by Anonymousreply 34July 7, 2025 9:40 PM

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.

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by Anonymousreply 35July 7, 2025 9:44 PM

more info about the Boycott.

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by Anonymousreply 36July 7, 2025 9:46 PM

Poor Lauryn . She just can't ctach a break

by Anonymousreply 37July 7, 2025 9:51 PM

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.

by Anonymousreply 38July 8, 2025 2:52 AM

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.

by Anonymousreply 39July 8, 2025 3:13 AM

I swear, some people are so ghetto.

by Anonymousreply 40July 8, 2025 3:59 AM

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?

by Anonymousreply 41July 8, 2025 5:30 AM

[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.

by Anonymousreply 42July 8, 2025 3:29 PM

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

by Anonymousreply 43July 8, 2025 3:43 PM
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