The Fugees "The Score"

Posted on 10.25.2004

The Fugees
Album: The Score
Release : Feb 06, 1996
Label : Ruffhouse

Review:
Their remake of "Killing Me Softly" was the hit, but that’s only the beginning of the story. A hip-hop trio whose talents reach out into the world of the pop song (Wyclef Jean is a fine guitar player, and Lauryn Hill’s a heck of a singer), the Fugees are also all distinctive, inventive rappers—you find yourself waiting for each of them to take the next verse in turn.

The beats are the familiar crossed-armed boom-bip, but the group’s understated grooves and subtle effects lie low in the mix. Aside from two kicky covers of classics (the other is Marley’s "No Woman, No Cry"), The Score’s focus is on the stars’ rhyming with the free-form grace of performance poets and showing that they’ve thought deeply about the issues they raise. —Douglas Wolk

Tracklisting :
1 Red Intro
2 How Many Mics
3 Ready Or Not
4 Zealots
4 I Only Have Eyes For You
5 The Beast
6 Fu-Gee-La
7 Family Business
8 Killing Me Softly With His Song
8 MEMORY BAND
9 The Score
10 The Mask
11 Cowboys
12 No Woman, No Cry
13 Manifest/Outro
14 Fu-Gee-La
15 Fu-Gee-La
16 Mista Mista