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  • New Music From Lauryn Hill? Repercussions

    Recently, as in the last day or so, a previously unreleased Lauryn Hill track was leaked and as is usually the case with anything unreleased by an artist of Hill’s stature, the Internet blew up.

    Ok, I’m hyperbolizing a bit and I think I just created a new verb. What makes this more intriguing than most leaks is that Hill’s career is as mysterious as a previously unreleased track itself.

    After being one of the most revered artists in the late 90s, her career went off the deep end.

    There was that infamous unplugged album that she dropped in the early 2000s that showed her in a stage of her life that was much different from the perception of what a brilliant artist should be. She seemed, well, crazy. And she was fine with showing that.

    Then there was the supposed Fugees reunion that started and stopped. There was even an iTunes single called Take It Easy that left a lot to be desired. Wyclef and Pras both publicly blamed the situation on Hill and said she was hard to work with and never on time.

    But recently, there has been hope for Lauryn fans. She has started performing live here and there and is slated for the Rock The Bells tour. The timing of this unreleased track is interesting simply because it seems that she’s trying to come back into the public eye, even if it’s been in slow motion so far.

    This song is probably not necessarily “new”, because supposedly Lauryn has a ton of unreleased material from previous restarts of her career that stopped for whatever reason.

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  • They Put Me In The Mix – JSlow 6: A New Beginning

    JSlow 6 means one thing for me. It means the birth of my first son Brian. The year was 1999. This was also the first JSlow that wasn’t recorded on audio tape. My wife at the time bought me a CD recorder.

    But back to Brian for a second. As I reflect back to when he was born, it really seems fantasy-like. It’s like he was born, and now he’s 9 years old. Where did all the time go? We have a pretty special relationship and he always knows how to put me in the right mood. I hope I do the same for him.

    Who knew Lark Voorhies was in this video?

    JSlow 6: A New Beginning (circa late 1999)

    1. Crazy Over You – 112
    2. One Day You’ll Be Mine – Usher
    3. My Love Is Your Live – Whitney Houston
    4. Silly Man – Tony Rich
    5. Don’t Rush (Take Love Slowly) – K-Ci & JoJo
    6. Right Here Waiting – Monica featuring 112
    7. These Are The Times – Dru Hill
    8. If You’re An Angel – Tony Rich
    9. Angel – Sarah McLachlan
    10. Ex Factor – Lauryn Hill
    11. When A Woman’s Fed Up – R. Kelly
    12. Never Say Never – Brandy
    13. Show Me The Way To Your Heart – Brian McKnight
    14. Ribbon In The Sky – Stevie Wonder
    15. Half On A Baby – R. Kelly
    16. To Zion – Lauryn Hill

    It’s funny looking back at these tapes and seeing what I was listening to back then. I’m not sure that I’ve listened to Monica’s version of Right Here Waiting in years. And that might’ve been the last Whitney Houston song that I liked.

    • Two Tony Rich songs? Dude was talented, but still, two Tony Rich songs?
    • Usher would go on to cut at least 10 slow jams that were better than this one.
    • That Sarah McLachlan song threw me for a loop. I forgot I had some SM on my slow jam tapes.
    • Man, when do the R. Kelly songs end on my tapes?
    • But at least I found a way to add some more Stevie.
    • Look at your career they said, Lauryn baby use your head, but instead I chose to use my heart.

      To Zion – Lauryn Hill (Featuring Carlos Santana)

    The next JSlow was a Jodecidal JSlow.

    Previous JSlows
    Jam Slow
    JSlo 3
    JSlow 4
    JS5 (JSlow 5)

  • Friday Throwback – Ex-Factor

    When I think of what some of the most emotional songs I’ve heard are, I always come back to a song by Lauryn Hill from her solo album The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill. Though I’ve never been in quite the relationship that she describes, I think to anyone who has been in a really powerful relationship, some of this probably resonates.

    It could all be so simple
    But you’d rather make it hard
    Loving you is like a battle
    And we both end up with scars

    – Wyclef thought this song was about him. I wonder if Lauryn should’ve redone You’re So Vain. But then again, maybe it is about Wyclef.

    – The video is simple, but so is the song. There’s no need to show anything other than Lauryn.

    – The line is, “To get some reciprocity” but the way she says it, I always wondered if there was a word ciprocity.

    – Sing it Lauryn; “No one loves you more than me, and no one ever will.”

    – The “care for me, there for me, cry for me, give to me” part of the song is just awesome.

    – The video is nearly ruined by the light show at the end, but we can forgive.

    While Lauryn may be as crazy as Michael Jackson nowadays, she created one of the more emotional relationship songs of our time. I blame the Marley dude.