[Severian]

Originally Posted by louder

Yeah, that was one of the few songs I liked.

Lauryn's cover of the song took it to another level though.

Whoah, that’s not a cover man. That’s meta. I can’t really make out the lyrics but it sounds like she’s taking the piss a bit. “See this is Ex-Factor, he took the sample, my shit is classic, he’s an example of ... [how we... slice it up on a n****?]” I don’t know. Can’t really make it out.

She says “peace to Drake” at the end, but that could mean anything, I guess.

You know, I hate to sound like a misogynist asshole, but it’s a little jarring to see Ms. Lauryn after like 10+ years of only catching glimpses here and there. When she was active with Fugees and Miseducation, I thought she was the most beautiful woman in the fucking world. I was pretty sure she always would be, but damn... that was like 20 years ago. I was in high school. Guess it’s just to be expected that age would take its toll on that unspeakably beautiful face. She’s looks a little worse for wear, compared to that relentlessly dynamic and expressive woman who rocked the world between 1992 and 2000.

Would likely not be as much of a shock if she’d kept making music, but she turned her back on the world like it was fucking Wyclef’s bitchass.

I wish Courtney Love had vanished and Lauryn Hill has kept dropping an album every few years. She’s still got mad skills. That song she dropped in 2012 or 2013 — I forget the name, but it was really hard, and had kind of a freestyle/mixtape vibe to it — was amazing. Thought we were going to get a second coming, but nope.