Jul 30 2007
Wyclef - Scratch magazine

Wyclef Speaks on Fugee Non-Reunion: Lauryn Hill’s the Problem

On one hand you hear of a new Fugee album and think, “Umm, aren’t they called the Black Eyed Peas now.” On the other you realize that BEP are like the little cousins that soaked up the Fugee formula, yet something was left in the sponge. The Fugees had the perfect blend of commercial, soul, and hip-hop that has yet to be truly duplicated. Given the right circumstances a new Fugee album would prove that and inject a welcome dose of creative spirit into hip-hop.

Lauryn Hill

Of course with Lauryn Hill looking as off-center as ever since shunning the celebrity life for babies and hard-to-grasp spiritual beliefs, that reunion might not be such a great idea. And who knows where Pras stands - although I suspect his only job would be to do just that, stand in the right spot.. thanks Pras.

Despite their problems with each other, since the surprise performance on Dave Chappelle’s Block Party, there have been talks of a Fugee reunion that’s seemingly on an on again/off again diet.

The latest being.. it’s off.

In the new issue of Scratch magazine Wyclef reveals the reason for the delays: Lauryn Hill wanting to make beats.

What’s up with the Fugees reunion, or lack thereof?

“I’m officially Paul McCartney from the Beatles now. If the Fugees wanna come back you can’t break the format. Don’t come back and be like, ‘I wanna produce a beat.’ That’s like me saying I wanna sing an R&B vocal. When we was working on the album, I was like, [to Lauryn], ‘You need to do this like this.’ [And] she says, ‘How do you know what’s relevant? I haven’t heard anything from you in the past like three, four years?’

The minute she said that I was like, I gotta go back to working [on my own.]”

So what’s ultimately holding you guys back?

“Lauryn is straight up the problem, bro. She wants to be a producer. Don’t come telling us how to chop up beats so you can get credit for it.”

What makes you think she would take the credit?

“We did a remix with Lauryn Hill for John Legend, for the record “How High.” John was saying our names. You know what she had him do? She was like, ‘Take off Wyclef and Jerry’s names.’ Because she wanted people to think that she was the one doing the beat. I’m a producer and a beatmaker with my cousin Jerry Wonder..

I’m a writer. She’s a writer, a vocalist, and a great composer. She’s great at picking out samples - she got 20 billion samples but can’t chop em up to save her life.”

So she hasn’t made any of the beats she got credit for?

“It’s real simple - if you did the beats, where are the beats?

Show us one beat that you did.

If you bring Clef in to the studio, put an MP, put an SP, .. bring a bunch of cameras and say, ‘Clef do a beat in two minutes.’ The beat’s done! Bring Lauryn Hill in the studio with the same camera - say we give you three hours. Matter fact, fuck it, we’ll give you a month - do a beat. She can’t put it together!”

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Lauryn Hill Unplugged

Hmm, maybe that’s why she was strumming a guitar for 90 minutes straight on her last solo album.


☼ What's Your Opinion? ☼

1 Sarah B Mon, Jul 30, 2007 - 11:29 pm

Where does Pras stand?  He made it pretty clear to Billboard recently - “Me and Clef, we on the same page, but Lauryn [Hill] is in her zone, and I?m fed up with that sh*t. Here she is, blessed with a gift, with the opportunity to rock and give and she?s running on some b*llshit? I?m a fan of Lauryn?s but I can?t respect that.”

I saw it on HearingTest, but they got it from Billboard:

HT:
http://www.musicnewsculture.com/fugees-dead-to-pras/07/2007/

2 ofknowimportance Tue, Jul 31, 2007 - 1:02 am

i have to say Wyclef is stretching to be so critical of Lauryn, that 90 minutes of her strumming a guitar was worth about tree times as much as whatever his last [wack] album was…

3 yourtheonemshill Tue, Jul 31, 2007 - 12:52 pm

When ou have a talent like this all I can say is f*ck wyclef and pras.  Rock on Ms Hill your the one.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aA0bbct1BUo

4 danzenie Tue, Jul 31, 2007 - 2:38 pm

As much as a like L, I must say there is something inside of me that just has more respect for Wyclef as a “person”.  Lauryn is off-skewed for sure.  If it was your ghetto next door neighbor you would have claimed drugs.

5 cutiew/dafatbootey Wed, Aug 01, 2007 - 9:53 am

who really gives a f*ck! i am tired of hearing about this shit. Wyclef is all washed up-trying to create another fugees band with them “city-high” kids—flopped. Lauryn and is just all fck’d up i have no respect for her after hearing that wack ass unplugged album that i returned to the bootlegger that sold it to me (so you knwo it was bad). And Pras….PRAS who? he never did anything…and you know what i don’t blaime ‘em get yo cake and let wyclef and lauryn war over nothing! get it together people this shit is ridiculous….

6 Jah Wed, Aug 01, 2007 - 9:04 pm

Can’t we all just get along?

7 Tash Thu, Aug 02, 2007 - 3:20 pm

Nobody will ever know the real story behind what went on between the fugees, there are three sides to that story and the TRUTH.  I am a big Lauryn Fan, although that Unplugged albulm was (not lauryn), I’m still behind her…. so, Lauryn if you are reading this… girl you were at the top of your game, take a deep breath, exhale and get back on top!!!!!!

8 Ms Hill Speaks, Belgium July 27th Thu, Aug 02, 2007 - 4:47 pm

Here is an interview were Ms Hill dicusses her new album,  fugees and more.  Please post this and give it as much attention as you did Wyclef and Pras.

Ms Hill Interview, July 27, 2007

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGdQHoeg2ow

9 Dr, Thrill Thu, Aug 02, 2007 - 5:47 pm

Lauryn Hill is at a stage in her life/ career where she wants everything done her way. And i believe she deserves that.

The only anticipated artist and (real star) in the group is Lauryn. neither Pras nor Wyclef can make a hit on their own. They need Lauryn and She doesn’t need them. (Wyclef never never had a huge SOLO hit)

Wyclef is afraid that when the Fugees’ album came out everyone would be praising hill and overlooking him just like they did for ‘Blunted On Reality’ and ‘The Score’, and just like Lauryn’s solo effort by far overshadowed Clef’s.

10 LOL Thu, Aug 02, 2007 - 6:59 pm

Lauryn got torched.

“Matter fact, f**k it, we?ll give you a month”. LOL.

11 LOL Thu, Aug 02, 2007 - 7:01 pm

Fujitsu’s need their own unreality show - would be classic…

CallOut, baby!

Peace to my peeps on the bbs (all three of you).

12 l Moore Fri, Sep 07, 2007 - 3:20 pm

Lauryn Honey i don’t know if you ever read this stuff!!! but Pleeeeeease come back with or without the fugee, with or without your own beats. with or without your guitar your voice and your lyrics alone can touch millions. whatever you went through that made you leave the industry use that to make a come back all your songs in the past were relevant and all you did was spoke on what you knew what you were going through and almost every woman in the world could relate. so come back . screw what he say you can do it allthe beats the lyric. hell you can can work in thefctory that makes the cd’s for all i care. just go ahead and make come back!!!!
st louis

13 mygalmshill Sun, Sep 30, 2007 - 12:29 am

The talent of the fugees was in Ms. Hill.  She is trying hard to grow in her music and Wyclef keeps talking about the fugees.  SHUT UP already!  The few tracks you guys put together with Lauryn’s most masterful lyrics should feed you and Praz a little longer. Now shut up and let her get on with telling her story the way she wants to.  I heard Guarding the Gates (new song) and Loose Myself and, guess what, I like both of them.  Ms. Hill is real versitle.

14 sandile Wed, Jan 02, 2008 - 4:23 am

A systimic deprivation of truth plagues humanity and when by the grace of God you get to know the truth and start reflecting it people don’t understand and wish you were still your old self. Lauryn you have been blessed with the knowledge of truth and my God continue to shine on through you, for man is in darkness and has failed to comprehend the light. Mis L keep on transforming to being his reflection, the unplugged no 2.0 is beautiful.
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17 JUDAH Thu, Jun 21, 2012 - 12:38 pm

JUDAH


LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE

YOU LAURYN HILL.


JUDAH

JUDAH

TO YOU LAURYN HILL - YOU ARE WELL LOVED

UNIQUE WOMAN UNIQUE HEART UNIQUE BEAUTY UNIQUE CHILD OF THE ONE TRUE AND ONLY LIVING GOD   SAVED BY THE SAVIOUR OF THE WORLD CHRIST JESUS
REMEMBER THE BLOOD SO PRECIOUS SHED TO CLEANS AND WASH AWAY ALL SIN USE IS CONSISTENTLY.

FOR THE JUST SHALL LIVE BY FAITH.  BUT WITHOUT FAITH IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO PLEASE GOD FOR THOSE WHO COME TO HIM MUST BELIEVE THAT HE IS AND THAT HE IS A REWARDER OF THOSE WHO DELIGENTLY SEEK HIM.  WALK IN HIS FAITH.  AS HE WALKED IN THE FAITH OF HIS FATHER. (SEE WHAT HE ACHIEVED HE DESERVES THE GLORY AND THE HONOR)

SHAME ON YOU D…L YOU LOOSE ALL THE TIME)

BLESSED ARE THOSE WHO HAVE NOT SEEN YET BELIEVE

LAURYN YOU BEAT YOUR ENEMIES AS FINE AS THE DUST.  I LOVE YOUR MEDITATIONS IN THE LIVING WORD GO DEEPER CHILD OF GOD STAY IN HIS PRESENCE AND RECEIVE ALL YOU NEED FOR LIFE AND GODLINESS

LOVE YOUR BEAUTY GRACED BY THE CREATOR.

YOU ARE A TRUE PROVERBS 31 WOMAN.

MAY GOD GIVE YOU ON A DAILY BASIS GREAT SPIRITUAL DISCERNMENT TO SEE THROUGH YOUR ENEMIES AND TO OVER POWER THEM WITH WORDS OF JOY WORDS OF WISDOM WORDS OF PEACE WORDS OF LOVE WORDS OF COMFORT WORDS OF REBUKE WORDS OF LIFE JUST LIKE JESUS DID.  CHECK OUT WHEN THEY WANTED TO PUSH HIM OVER THE EDGE! OR WHEN THE ENEMIES OF GOD WANTED TO HAVE THEIR WAY WITH HIM! THEY COULD ONLY DO SO WITHIN THE WILL OF THE FATHER. THY WILL BE DONE O LORD THY KINGDOM COME….....................

TAKE COURAGE CHILD OF THE KING HE HAS OVERCOME THE WORLD. YOU ARE MORE THAN A CONQUEROR HE IS ABOVE ONLY AND HAS THE NAME THAT IS ABOVE   ABOVE   ABOVE ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL ALL NAMES..

LOVE UP SISTER AND STAY IN TRUTH, HUMILITY, RIGHEOUSNESS PEACE, LOVE GRACE AND GREAT GLORY. FEAR NOT! FEAR NOT! FOR HE IS IN YOU AND WILL BE WITH YOU EVEN UNTILL THE END.

MAY THE MIGHTY ANGELS OF THE ALMIGHTY GOD SURROUND YOU AND THE CHILDREN EVERYTIME .,  MAY YOU HAVE THE WISDOM, POWER AND STRENGTH OF GOD TO TRAIN THEM UP IN THE WAY THAT THEY SHOULD GO AND WHEN THEY GROW UP THEY WILL NOT DEPART FROM THE WAYS OF THE LORD. (LIKE DANIEL, LIKE ANNA & SIMEON IN THE TEMPLE, LIKE MOSES LIKE JOSHUA LIKE THE THREE HEBREW BOYS, LIKE PAUL.

FULFILL YOUR PURPOSE IN CHRIST AND STAY IN HIM.


LOVE YOU LAURYN. LET YOUR SPRIT RISE IN CHRIST.

JUDAH. 
YOU CAN DEPEND ON ME TO PRAY FOR YOU.

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