Trina: I don't consider Lauryn Hill a female rapper (VLAD TV)

[CASHAPP]

I said "growing up" because I was a kid during the Fugees era. My parents are fans and for the most part, Lauryn Hill's singing stood out more than her rhymes when I was listening to the music. I'm conceding to the fact that I wasn't old enough to know how she was perceived in the Hip-Hop community

I'm still standing by my statement that most of her commercial highlights before Miseducation had to do with her singing.

The score and blunted reality had to do with singing? Tell me what besides killing me softly...

 

[feelosofer]

She's right Lauryn Hill was one of the few women that were complete artists, she could bring you to tears with her singing and spit rhymes with the best of them. She really was a talent years ahead of her time.

 

[onlylno]

Yeah, I remember those arguements and I changed my views since then.


IMO, Stack the greatest non ghostwritten verses by any female MC then decide who's in the convo. If Lauren's in than she's in.

I've gotten over this whole great rapper but not enough solo album material rule in general. It's dumb to punish great rappers like Jay Elec.

 

[Judo]

Trina you the hometown hoe and all, but you got no business going anywhere near Lauren.

You might not consider her a rapper, but she's still a better rapper than you.

Yup. VLAD TV always has click-bait titles.

 

[onlylno]

Yup. VLAD TV always has click-bait titles.

Vlad Click bate titles get an automatic neg from now on. This dude's the buzz feed of Hiphop aka cancer.

 

[Nigerianwonder]

She's right Lauryn Hill was one of the few women that were complete artists, she could bring you to tears with her singing and spit rhymes with the best of them. She really was a talent years ahead of her time.

She is talented but are we going to pretend that wyclef wasnt writing most of her records.

 

[feelosofer]

She is talented but are we going to pretend that wyclef wasnt writing most of her records.

As part of the Fugees yes but she wrote the vast majority of Miseducation.

 

[EA]

The score and blunted reality had to do with singing? Tell me what besides killing me softly...

So you're gonna pretend that all of the singles from The Score didn't have Lauryn singing on them?

 

[CASHAPP]

Lol @Nigerianwonder yeah im sure clef gave lauryn better rhymes than his own.

Yeah, I remember those arguements and I changed my views since then.


IMO, Stack the greatest non ghostwritten verses by any female MC then decide who's in the convo. If Lauren's in than she's in.

I've gotten over this whole great rapper but not enough solo album material rule in general. It's dumb to punish great rappers like Jay Elec.

Thats the shyt that gets me. Dudes wanna hate on her and say female emcees who had actual ghostwriters like kim and foxy are the best.

Bigging up missy elliot's wack ass....latifa didnt even write her own verses...same with mc lyte.

Best female emcees of all time are rah digga and l boogie.

 

[EA]

Btw, if we're purely speaking about female rappers, Jean Grae is the GOAT.

 

[CASHAPP]

So you're gonna pretend that all of the singles from The Score didn't have Lauryn singing on them?

So singing choruses on ready or not and fu gee la means she wasnt rapping on the songs? Yall never talk about the tracks like zealots on the album.

 

[EA]

So singing choruses on ready or not and fu gee la means she wasnt rapping on the songs? Yall never talk about the tracks like zealots on the album.

I'm not disregarding them, I think we're arguing two different points. I'm saying that when it comes to commercial/mainstream exposure (singles/movies/features/whatever), she was getting shine as a singer that rapped. She was still a great rapper but for the folks that weren't copping the Fugee albums, I'm sure they viewed her as a singer first from even back then.

 

[Zero]

and then when brehs realize that this video is more than a year old (which makes you wonder why OP posted it)....

 

[Newportbox]

I find it weird that people always want to downplay Lauryn on the mic, even if it's in a complimentary way.

 

[ottorocket]

As part of the Fugees yes but she wrote the vast majority of Miseducation.

She got sued for 5 million for not crediting her writers on Miseducation..

And I really only hear her being touted as a rapper online..shes primarily a singer, imo