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[Auset]

I have always wondered about this and so I have recently decided to do me a lil research. what caused the break up of the group? Was it Wyclef ego or his and Lauryns affair? Tell me what you think and i've got some interesting articles to post. the first on is from www.sohh.com

In part two of SOHH's two-part Pras expose', the former Fugee speaks on the group's future, the Wyclef and Lauryn Hill affair, the deteriorating state of Hip-Hop and his company, Guerrilla Entertainment.

Heads have been fiending for a new Fugee record for the past seven years. As all members continued to drop solo efforts, the hope of seeing the trio reunite became dimmer. Though Clef extended his hand on 2000's "Where The Fugees At," the legendary group hasn't recorded collectively since 1996's The Score. "I mean anything can happen. Dude came back to repent, wash his sins, you know be like I was wrong. But I don't see dude doing that. His ego is too big," Pras told SOHH.com. The Fugees' contract stipulates that they still owe albums to Columbia Records, but Pras is rather pessimistic about a new album from the trio. "I doubt that they gon get it."

Though there are various theories on what went wrong in Fugee land, many pinpointed the Wyclef and Lauryn affair as the catalyst for the break up. And while many still speculate on the verity of Clef's claims, Pras put any doubts to rest. "I mean everybody knows that, no speculation," Pras said regarding Lauryn and Clef's relationship.

Meanwhile Pras confirms that the Refugee camp's first internal diss doesn't come from Clef -- but is aimed at him. "Her [Lauryn's] whole album was geared towards that dude. Even the title of the album Miseducation of Lauryn Hill," Pras shared. "She felt like being in this situation with this dude everything she thought she was or thought she knew about herself was really misinformed. It's a deep title man. It's a deep concept, deep album."

Beef aside, Pras' plate is quite full. Last year, he made a noteworthy appearance on Fox's Fast Lane and he currently has three movie deals on the table. Also, he is set to release a mixtape album with Cut Master C and Big Mike next month while his follow up LP Cold Fire is near completion. Furthermore, Pras' newly founded company, Guerrilla Entertainment, is currently negotiating a distribution deal. "I'm doing the sh!t my way, f#@$ the refugee sh!t. f#@$ all that other bullsh!t. This is Guerrilla and it's very serious and we're coming as a force and as a movement, Pras said excitedly. "And it's indie in a sense that it's my sh!t. It's just going through a major channel. They just put my sh!t out there, but it's not like Pras is signed to Columbia."

Though Pras is on a mission, he's the latest veteran to voice his displeasure on the current state of Hip-Hop. "I think it's f#@$ed up because ni99as are scared of being themselves. Everybody feels like they got to be the next man," Pras explained. "The industry, for real, for real, they're more groupies than groupies on the road. That's why I can't f#@$ with ni99as in this game, they all pussies man. Cause a lot of these ni99as is frauds, they fake, they wack."

While the industry makes Pras sick, Hip-Hop's newest school really makes his stomach turn. "Young ni99as right now are on some beeyatch sh!t rhyming like they're gay and all that wack sh!t man," Pras said visibly disgusted. "The new generation, they're wack because they don't really understand hip hop, they come in there cause they're like I want to get some rides and the beeyatches. I'm like money... that's not what hip hop is about."

Pras's mixtape album in collaboration with Cut Master C and Big Mike is set for an August release while his second solo LP, Cold Fire will drop later this year.

[Auset]

Wyclef jean is supposed to be making like Sting today, but instead he's just making it up. Wyclef (he's primarily known by his first name) is sitting behind a drum kit on the sixth floor of the Hit Factory, a recording studio in Manhattan, tapping out a jazzy rhythm while his cousin and frequent producing partner Jerry Duplessis plays along on bass guitar. The pair, who are here to tape a rendition of the Police song Walking on the Moon for the pilot of an mtv series on musical influences, are indulging in an unscheduled jam. Wyclef, who with Lauryn Hill and Prakazrel ("Pras") Michel made up the Grammy-winning hip-hop trio the Fugees, pounds out a rock beat, shifts to something funkier and finally settles into a reggae groove that sounds distinctly like Bob Marley's skittering Lively Up Yourself. Then Wyclef, who is more of a guitarist than a drummer, puts down his sticks and walks away laughing, like he just got away with something.

That's Wyclef: you can't pin him down, not to one instrument, not to one style, not even to one country. He was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, but raised in Brooklyn, N.Y., and Newark, N.J. He's a rapper and a singer, an entertainer with an ear to the streets and an eye on the top of the charts. He has written and produced hits for Santana and Whitney Houston and has also worked with Destiny's Child and Sinéad O'Connor. "He's like a chameleon," says Melky Jean, Wyclef's sister and frequent supporting vocalist. "He can adapt from rap to pop to country because, growing up, that's what he used to listen to; he never limited himself."

With the Fugees, whose 1996 record The Score sold more than 5 million copies, on indefinite hiatus, Wyclef has ventured out on his own. His 1997 solo debut, The Carnival, sold almost 2 million copies. Now his new CD, The Ecleftic-2 Sides II a Book (Columbia), is garnering some of the best reviews of any rap release this year. Rolling Stone called it "the most pleasingly direct yet musically adventurous hip-hop long-player you're likely to hear all year." The hip-hop magazine Source gave it 41Ž2 microphones out of 5-half a mike more than Eminem got in the same issue. "I wanted this album to be really musical, but with an edge," says Wyclef. "I wanted to bring in people from the projects and college kids in the dorm. I didn't want to skip over anybody."

Fame and fortune could easily have skipped over Wyclef, 29. "I grew up poor," he says, recalling his childhood in Port-au-Prince. "I had two pairs of pants for the whole year, one pair of shoes. Sometimes I'd go to school barefooted." When he was nine, the woman he thought was his mother told him she was actually his aunt and that his real parents, who had left the country when he was four, were ready to take him to the U.S. Instead of feeling betrayed, he was overjoyed. "I always felt I would be in the ghetto forever," he says. "Then they said, Someone else is your parents and they're taking you to America. I said, ŒYeah!'"

Artistically, Wyclef is still on the move. His sonic curiosity has broadened since The Carnival, and his songwriting skills have sharpened. He's like a pop-music search engine, filtering through genres, highlighting what's melodious and spirited. For Wyclef, it's important to come up with varied material that showcases his skills as a rapper and a singer. His reasons are personal: "My mom, she's not impressed with any of the rap stuff that I do. She's always, like, ŒWhat songs are you singing?'"

Ecleftic boasts cameos from country star Kenny Rogers and pro wrestler the Rock. A Marley-ish protest song about police brutality (Diallo) is balanced by a lighthearted tribute to marijuana (Something About Mary). Along the way, there's a sexy duet with hip-hop soul singer Mary J. Blige (911) and a nostalgic, rap-infused cover of Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here. The CD's most striking song, however, may be its first, Where Fugee At, a blunt call for Wyclef's bandmates to come back together: "Lauryn, if you're listening/ Pras, if you're listening/ Give me a call I'm in the lab in the Booga Basement ..."

There have been reports of tension among the Fugees after the critical and commercial success of Hill's 1998 solo album, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. So will the Fugees ever record another album? "People welcome you into Jerusalem to crucify you," says Wyclef. "If we just go into the studio and the s___ is garbage, the same people [calling for a reunion] will be, like, ŒThis is garbage. They should have just kept doing what they were doing.'" But Wyclef's cousin Duplessis predicts the Fugees will get together again because "everyone will get a big check."

Although Wyclef just talked to Pras a few weeks ago, he says he hasn't had a conversation with Hill in two years. There have been rumors that Wyclef and Hill had a romantic fling earlier in their careers. Is that old affair the true source of their current estrangement? Wyclef smiles, almost shyly. "I think so," he says. "I think that's really the heart of it." For her part, Hill declines to comment.

Typically, when band members release solo albums, one individual reveals himself to be the Simon of the group, and the others are uncovered as mere Garfunkels. When the Police broke up, Sting turned out to be a Simon; Andy Summers was a Garfunkel. So far, both Wyclef and Hill have turned out to be Simons, and Wyclef's new CD only further confirms his Simonhood. Why should Wyclef let the pressure to reunite get to him? He's duetting with Mary J.; he's got half a mike on Eminem; and he's following in the footsteps of his idol, Sting. Wyclef may be traveling solo these days, but he's walking on the moon.

[Smooth]

okay, this is an awesome subject. Great articles.

This is how it goes.

NO MATTER what anyone says, Lauryn Hill is the best female MC to have ever graced my ears since I've been a fan of hip hop! And even though there was a controversy when her album came out that she didn't write her lyrics, it doesn't even matter. She was the most talented female artist in the hip hop game with Missy and Rah Digga coming at a distant second.

WyClef, no matter what ... . ... .... ... homeboy knows how to entertain. Some could say that he is a better entertainer than P.Diddy (cause Diddy... well, Diddy is Diddy love him or hate him)

Recently I had the pleasure to support San Diego's Z 90.3 Jingle Jam. Mainly because the proceeds were going to the victims to that nasty fire that messed up hundreds of homes and thousands of families. Well, there was a crazy line up. I mean I think there were more aritist on one billet than the grammys. My future wife Mya was there, Lil John and the Eastside Boyz, Missy, Loon, Yin Yang Twins, Lil Rob, Baby Dash, 50 cents wit G-Unit, Beyonce, Chingy, Ludicris, Nelly, etc.. , etc..

But the guy that took the show was WyClef. A surprise indeed. The only notable performances in the whole night (besides the fact that Mya could hum all night and I'll be entertained) were WyClef and Missy. Even though Lil John is on crack half the time, those two artist know how to put on a show. Wow.

For the following two weeks after the event, the radio station and everybody that went all agreed, that WyClef did his damn thing. Homeboy knows the meaning of music.

Concerning the Fugee's, they should get back together. but only if they are going to make a better album than the Score. Which I doubt, but hopefully they can. The Fugee's first album...... what do you think of that?

[Auset]

I loved Mona lisa, I don't remember the rest of the album but I loved that song.

[Smooth]

I wear my sunglasses at night, so I can spy on my girlfriend. [that's right]


Mona Lisa,


can I get a date on Friday

and if your busy,

then why don't we make it Saturdaaaaayyy hey hey

day hey hey



Round up the posse, come coming around my way,

Hey,