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She was a double threat, potentially triple threat if she had done more acting.

It's interesting though, watching the last 6 months of Hollywood being thrown under the bus, because this is partly what she was referring too as to why she didn't continue with her career.

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You don't know this, Lauryn didn't write her songs. That's why she was constantly sued for writing credits on the miseducation of Lauryn hill. The writers weren't given credit.

That's why she never matched that output again, they refused to work with her.

There's tons of articles about this.

Your knowledge of those lawsuits is very surface level. But I guess that's what happens when you try to debate based on info you got from Google University as opposed to having been around at the time everything went down.

Anyways, someone named after Beyonce should not be starting a thread like this anyway. Sure, Lauryn had one good album 20 years ago. But the fact that she's still able to headline around the world speaks to the impact of that album. Name one Beyonce album that is or will be as loved as Miseducation is either today or 20 years from now? Does Beyonce even have a classic album? At the end of the day, Lauryn will always be more loved for her one album than Beyonce with her entire catalog, even with the late appearances.

P.S. Speaking of writing, when's the last time Beyonce actually wrote an album by herself? She be having 50 dudes on one song.
 
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Your knowledge of those lawsuits is very surface level. But I guess that's what happens when you try to debate based on info you got from Google University as opposed to having been around at the time everything went down.

Anyways, someone named after Beyonce should not be starting a thread like this anyway. Sure, Lauryn had one good album 20 years ago. But the fact that she's still able to headline around the world speaks to the impact of that album. Name one Beyonce album that is or will be as loved as Miseducation is either today or 20 years from now? Does Beyonce even have a classic album? At the end of the day, Lauryn will always be more loved for her one album than Beyonce with her entire catalog, even with the late appearances.

P.S. Speaking of writing, when's the last time Beyonce actually wrote an album by herself? She be having 50 dudes on one song.


Interesting that you brought up Beyoncé and made this into a Lauryn vs Beyoncé thing.

What exactly are we comparing here?
 
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If you didn't understand it the first time, let me reiterate. No one named after Beyonce should be starting this thread about anyone being overrated.

Oh okay, I get you now. She the biggest African American r&b star in the world, the only one doing stadium tours, has been going platinum for 20 years straight, but your gonna do the typical online commentary and say she's overrated... gotcha

You're one of those. There's plenty just like you on this site.
 

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Oh okay, I get you now. She the biggest African American r&b star in the world, the only one doing stadium tours, has been going platinum for 20 years straight, but your gonna do the typical online commentary and say she's overrated... gotcha

You're one of those. There's plenty just like you on this site.

Going platinum for 20 years and how many of those albums have outsold Lauryn's one from 1998?
 

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She is very talented, but the legend came from the myth of her classic 1 and only album. She was walking around accepting the sayings that she wrote and produced the entire album by herself. After the album a lot of her writers and producers did not get paid or recognized so they bounced, which is why she never came out with anything else.
 
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