Pras Reveals WHY A Fugees Reunion Will 'Never' Happen & Breaks Down Rumors On Lauryn Hill's Lyrics
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"Lauryn who?" - 
I didn't see the whole interview, but it did support pretty much everything I said about Lauryn Hill. People were quick to discredit and dismiss Lauryn as having written nothing, Pras is saying she did in fact write and produce. Where Lauryn was in error was not having her paperwork in order so everybody got their proper credit.This is what I was arguing and people wanted to insist that Lauryn was a "theif".
this nikka paid for a superbowl ad for Blacture and said or did absolutely nothing about it since.
you still on this breh? Pras wasn't in those sessions and she LOST THE LAWSUIT.
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dope ass interview 
you still on this breh? Pras wasn't in those sessions and she LOST THE LAWSUIT.
Robert Glasper wasn't in those sessions either, but his word was taken as gospel. Pras worked extensively with Lauryn as a member of The Fugees, so he's seen her work first hand.
Settling out of court =/= losing. That is a false equivalence.
He knows the musicians involved and he also worked with Lauryn and shared HIS OWN experiences with her.
You can't change the fact that she lost the suit no matter how you spin it. Say she only stole credit or omitted names however you phrase it it was stealing and she paid for it since 98. It affected her career and performances. We haven't seen her create on that level since. Unplugged wasn't even close.
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If I'm not mistaken, Pras knew them too and it is also of note of whom Glasper is referring to because te here was the New Ark group and then there was James Poyser. and Che Pope.
Her not losing the suit isn't a spin. There was never a judegement from a judge in which a decision was made in favor of either party. A settlement is a mutual agreement between disputing parties. So both parties mutually benefit from a conclusion reached by the plaintiff and the defendant. Whereas if you lose a case, you are forced to pay whatever amount is awarded by the judge.
Many factors affected her career and performances. And again, Unplugged is still a raw showcase of her writing. It was a live recording of material that she was performing for the first time. And that's not to say that she wasn't working on music. It just never came out. According to Salaam Remi, he has a lot of music with Lauryn that may never see the light of day. They were in the studio together right before she did Unplugged for MTV.
What Pras said exactly is she wrote 100% of the lyrics and SOME melody but production.... nah not on her own.
MIchael Jackson would compose the same way but he still credited other contributors so who's Lauryn to omit names and take all the credit because she hummed melodies?
You usually settle when you know it's a lost cause and/or you tryna keep something hush. We don't know the particulars of that settlement but we do know she hasn't performed those songs in the same arrangement as the album for over a decade. That's not a coincidence...
It was always understood that Lauryn had help. That credits reveal as much.
Why are we comparing Michael to Lauryn? Quincy Jones was his producer and Michael got some co-production credits. And even with those MJ credits, Quincy is out here calling MJ a thief (which again, I disagree with simply because Quincy is implicating himself and pretty much saying he stole from himself) .
You settle for various reasons. It being a lost cause isn't necessarily why this case was settled. Like i said in another thread, people settle because they are tired of fighting. This case dragged for three years and I'm sure it was more costly paying lawyers than to just come to a mutually beneficial agreement.
Her changing the arrangement of the songs is neither here or there either. The lyrics to them remain intact and she would be altering those too since they also claim writing credits.
And also, the talk of "why hasn't Lauryn created another album", the same question could be posed of her collaborators. They produced other hit songs, but not full on albums especially as acclaimed as Lauryn's. Che Pope and James Poyser already had credits on acclaimed albums prior to working with Lauryn and after.
EDIT: "It's so easy to blame the man" @ 14 mins...I'm done.
I couldn't even get to him talking about Lauryn. THIS is the problem with Hip-Hop, too.
Ebro broke that shyt down beautifully. And here come Pras with this "bootstrap" shyt.
I couldn't even get to him talking about Lauryn. THIS is the problem with Hip-Hop, too.
Ebro broke that shyt down beautifully. And here come Pras with this "bootstrap" shyt.
I got respect for Pras, but, he was spitting straight bullshyt for the first six minutes.
Rosenburg talmbout culture and he dissed Chuck D of all ppl
Another dope Pras interview that goes a little deeper and he talks about a crazy experience during a movie shoot
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