"To tell the powers that be: I'm not a charactachure (Sp?) I can't fit into a sterotypical identity that makes me comfortable for you" - YOU SAID IT GIRL!!! WE LOVE YOU!!
Lauryn Hill is amazing. I think she broke out of being a gimmick, before it happened. I am proud of her and I want her to do whatever makes her happy. And she is.
What's sad is how people in general treat artists and each other. Building up their careers and gloating over their downfall. How about some support and sensitivity when they go through changes? She's a brilliant artist who happens to be in pain over how crazy the world can be. That's where the problem is: WICKED PEOPLE.
@antidote2010 wicked people?...so is she not familiar with reality?do you personaly think that you can up and become a fuckin twisted person and live off the money you made from the same crooked system you preach about?..hmmm..as a signed artist she still has a tight grasp of that music industry machine she speaks about...the enormous amounts of money she spends on her and her "leader" stains her image.....its sad..i see the video of her at the apollo and just trip out
Just because you lack the intellectual capacity to comprehend and empathize with her emotional turmoil, doesn't make her "Freak of Nature."
You have no proof that she's doing drugs. She's suffering because the world is fucked up, and people treat her badly. How about some empathy for a change?
@antidote2010 first off..the world has been fucked up..never really was there good times all over...its something that happens forever..doesnt mean you cant have your chin up and keep moving..people dont treat her badly..her record company wasted millions on her..waiting on a album..she then start hocking her music videos...that you can only see three times..yeah,thats weird..and the whole brother anthony cult...dont confuse enlightenment with insanity..she treats her fans bad with rants
If Lauryn Wants to sang about her spirtual and intellcual growth and her personal issues with the media that is not a crime she is just speaking her truth, if you dont like what she sangs about dont listen.
Damn ,,,so that's it ,no more singing for her ,,,I loved her voice and would have knocked off a senior citizen just to sing like her ,,,lol. I hope it's not too late for her to get herself together.
I will never pay to see her perform live again! She not only disrespected The Bay Area crowd by arriving on stage 2 1/2 hours late, her voice was absolutely atrocious. I WAS THERE! I have never heard such a horrible performance from her ever. I don't care what her personal issues are, as a performer she is obligated to ENTERTAIN and that she did not do. THAT is her job. When she FELL flat on her back and laid there I gagged! You didn't see half the sold-out crowd walk out in dissapointment.
so many ignorant people in the world...so sad reading these ignorant comments. for those who are unable to disect what she saying, how bout opening up a dictionary and look up what she saying instead of belittling her intelligence.
I don't care how much of an intellectual you are..you cannot intellectualize the fact that you have been on powder for years!! Face the facts Lauren!.. It doesn't take damn near a decade to "clean your house".
scicne your broke ass isnt nor has nor will ever be in the postition she was in in which hyour a publc figure and have fame thrust apon uou with undesirables are put in your circle then you can say what she should or should not have done you mouth breathing dumbass
Please stop fooling yourself...she needs to address the actual toxic behaviors that she was indulging herself in and take accountability for her own demise. You can't blame a 10 year "hiatus" on "media pressure" forever. It's clear that she is to prideful to be forthright and lay all her cards ont he table.
She's not blaming the media for shit, what she is saying is that she doesn't want to be in the media. I doubt that she is doing any drugs, but I am for sure that she realized that with her success of MOLH, that she was becoming a product and loosing herself. If you listen to her unplugged album, you'd understand. If she is not what you're looking for, go to a Beyonce concert, maybe there, you'll get your entertainment.
I guess you conveniently forget all of the reports of her "erratic" behavior both on and offstage..she is an addict..plain and simply.That's why she is trying to intellectualize her aloof behavior, rather than confront her demons and progress forward. She's just playing herself. She's too talented to be acting like this.
I want to point out something you said, "Reports", which means reported, which means, it may not neccessarily be true. She is signed to Columbia for god sakes, that's the worst lable for an African American artist to be signed to, they treat them as products. So she goes off on someone, guess what? That's life, that's human. And that's what she is trying to get everyone to understand.
dmanigo77, you have no proof that she's on drugs. It's pure conjecture. She's raising her kids, being a good mom and a devoted wife; leave her alone! Just because an artist doesn't capitalize on their fame doesn't make them crazy. She's in the league of Erykah Badu, i.e. conscious artists.
Since the re-emergence of Lauryn Hill I've noticed that she has been subjected to a raft of criticism, like all you haters on this site who diss her but pay money to go and see her concerts and search for her videos on YouTube to make absurd claims.
The truth is her talent, intelligence, and intellect is way beyond yours which is why you cant receive her message!
U Guys r idiots! If u listened to anything she said u'd know she wasn't crazy! She's trying to open ur minds to the truth and its said how u people have recieved her! She is truely exceptional and a genius at what she does! Just because u dont understand her doesnt mean she's crazy! GET A GRIP!
wtf? Lauren used to be the shit but i swear she needs to stop ranting and raving about cleaning herself up and do the damn thing. Im getting kind of tired of hearing about her crying and whining about people trying to change her when nobody has even SEEN her in the last few years. Just shut up and make some music.
she chick has lost it...used tolove her but now all she does to rant about how the media is making her "seem" crazy...the truth is SHE IS A F*CKING NUT
It's been 9 years since her last successful album and she shows no signs of getting it together. I think she has crossed over into "washed up" has-been status.
this bitch is a tran wreck waiting to happen. Bitch i didn't pay 2 hear ur explanations about ur sorry ass life, shut up and sing or either shut up and take off ur top.
This concert was horrible! Voice was horrible! Half the audience walked out! We were sitting below....still mad about the waste of time and money.Waiting 10yrs for nothing. I had so much respect for her until this fiasco.
Lauryn you have support you are not even aware of. Please stay strong; because, there are those with ears that do hear exactly what you are saying. You are truly one of a kind. Lauryn you will always have an audience you may lose some supposed fans along the way, but I am confident you will gain some new ones. Its your journey enjoy the walk.
poor Rohan...give me a break that is one of the major reasons she's been Buggin'. He's just as confused if not More and a major egotistical womanizer. His first wife took the 2 kids got away quick and remarried, moved on, new life. Ms. Hill should of done the same! Instead she had 4 of his babies in 5 years and was having problems with him after the first one so should of know better. For all that, Rohan didn't even marry Lauryn.
Lauryn Hill is as real as they get!
ih8pyramids 1 year ago
Lauryn the great!
Lacey1Spytfiyah 3 years ago 7
"To tell the powers that be: I'm not a charactachure (Sp?) I can't fit into a sterotypical identity that makes me comfortable for you" - YOU SAID IT GIRL!!! WE LOVE YOU!!
muslimahkiki20 4 years ago 8
cariacature...
JasonK1992 3 years ago
Lauryn Hill is amazing. I think she broke out of being a gimmick, before it happened. I am proud of her and I want her to do whatever makes her happy. And she is.
frasie71 4 years ago 2
why the fuk r those idiots clapping ...they dont hear what shes saying.... they watch too much jerry springer. clapping for the hell of it.
hym456 4 years ago
i feel sorry for her parents. they must be disappointed
with the freak of nature their once beautiful baby girl has become.
message: say no to drugs
maestro285 4 years ago
You are such a rude, ignorant bastard, and I'm sure the video owner will delete your ignorant comment.
tcphilosopher 4 years ago
I feel sorry for your sad ass, why dont you say no to drugs you freak!
jamesbarber4 4 years ago
What's sad is how people in general treat artists and each other. Building up their careers and gloating over their downfall. How about some support and sensitivity when they go through changes? She's a brilliant artist who happens to be in pain over how crazy the world can be. That's where the problem is: WICKED PEOPLE.
antidote2010 3 years ago
@antidote2010 wicked people?...so is she not familiar with reality?do you personaly think that you can up and become a fuckin twisted person and live off the money you made from the same crooked system you preach about?..hmmm..as a signed artist she still has a tight grasp of that music industry machine she speaks about...the enormous amounts of money she spends on her and her "leader" stains her image.....its sad..i see the video of her at the apollo and just trip out
83backbreaker 2 years ago
Just because you lack the intellectual capacity to comprehend and empathize with her emotional turmoil, doesn't make her "Freak of Nature."
You have no proof that she's doing drugs. She's suffering because the world is fucked up, and people treat her badly. How about some empathy for a change?
antidote2010 3 years ago 4
@antidote2010 first off..the world has been fucked up..never really was there good times all over...its something that happens forever..doesnt mean you cant have your chin up and keep moving..people dont treat her badly..her record company wasted millions on her..waiting on a album..she then start hocking her music videos...that you can only see three times..yeah,thats weird..and the whole brother anthony cult...dont confuse enlightenment with insanity..she treats her fans bad with rants
83backbreaker 2 years ago
If Lauryn Wants to sang about her spirtual and intellcual growth and her personal issues with the media that is not a crime she is just speaking her truth, if you dont like what she sangs about dont listen.
weebals 4 years ago
i was at this concert and it was totally shit i feel that the band was way to loud so you could not hear here if you AGREE let me know
GHDHUSX 4 years ago
I Love This Woman
Thank You ...4 Helping us
x
IvyEnt 4 years ago
The only singer/writer gifted with divine spirit and prophecy since bob marley. Thank you for such a spiritual gift in Ms. Hill. Jah Bless!
kalifp 4 years ago
Damn ,,,so that's it ,no more singing for her ,,,I loved her voice and would have knocked off a senior citizen just to sing like her ,,,lol. I hope it's not too late for her to get herself together.
safari33 4 years ago
I will never pay to see her perform live again! She not only disrespected The Bay Area crowd by arriving on stage 2 1/2 hours late, her voice was absolutely atrocious. I WAS THERE! I have never heard such a horrible performance from her ever. I don't care what her personal issues are, as a performer she is obligated to ENTERTAIN and that she did not do. THAT is her job. When she FELL flat on her back and laid there I gagged! You didn't see half the sold-out crowd walk out in dissapointment.
YouBettaWerqBitch 4 years ago
She said on Unplugged that she is not a performer. She's not going to dance because YOU want her to. You don't owe her anything.
muslimahkiki20 4 years ago 6
she's in the archives like D'Angelo. At least D'Angelo made 2 great albums
PhuckHue 4 years ago
so many ignorant people in the world...so sad reading these ignorant comments. for those who are unable to disect what she saying, how bout opening up a dictionary and look up what she saying instead of belittling her intelligence.
get free or die trying!
RebelWitACauze 4 years ago
I don't care how much of an intellectual you are..you cannot intellectualize the fact that you have been on powder for years!! Face the facts Lauren!.. It doesn't take damn near a decade to "clean your house".
reeree212 4 years ago
scicne your broke ass isnt nor has nor will ever be in the postition she was in in which hyour a publc figure and have fame thrust apon uou with undesirables are put in your circle then you can say what she should or should not have done you mouth breathing dumbass
cushe83 4 years ago
Please stop fooling yourself...she needs to address the actual toxic behaviors that she was indulging herself in and take accountability for her own demise. You can't blame a 10 year "hiatus" on "media pressure" forever. It's clear that she is to prideful to be forthright and lay all her cards ont he table.
reeree212 4 years ago
how the fuck would you know
cushe83 4 years ago
She's not blaming the media for shit, what she is saying is that she doesn't want to be in the media. I doubt that she is doing any drugs, but I am for sure that she realized that with her success of MOLH, that she was becoming a product and loosing herself. If you listen to her unplugged album, you'd understand. If she is not what you're looking for, go to a Beyonce concert, maybe there, you'll get your entertainment.
frasie71 4 years ago 3
I guess you conveniently forget all of the reports of her "erratic" behavior both on and offstage..she is an addict..plain and simply.That's why she is trying to intellectualize her aloof behavior, rather than confront her demons and progress forward. She's just playing herself. She's too talented to be acting like this.
dmanigo77 4 years ago
I want to point out something you said, "Reports", which means reported, which means, it may not neccessarily be true. She is signed to Columbia for god sakes, that's the worst lable for an African American artist to be signed to, they treat them as products. So she goes off on someone, guess what? That's life, that's human. And that's what she is trying to get everyone to understand.
frasie71 4 years ago 3
dmanigo77, you have no proof that she's on drugs. It's pure conjecture. She's raising her kids, being a good mom and a devoted wife; leave her alone! Just because an artist doesn't capitalize on their fame doesn't make them crazy. She's in the league of Erykah Badu, i.e. conscious artists.
antidote2010 3 years ago
that marley boy fucked her head up 4real!
preaching all of this positive shit and having
children by a married man.
lauren need 2 shut the fuck up,
find a bar of soap and some hot water,
some chick 2 twist or perm her damn
head and get back 2 making good music.
stop all that damn preaching because
we all know that she practice what her crazy
ass preach.
slackpakas 4 years ago
Preach...
ladypierre 4 years ago
lord people like you are why are why black folks have no where headed now.
cushe83 4 years ago
black people that cant put a damn sentence
together is why some of us are headed nowhere=)
slackpakas 4 years ago
I guess you putting your two scence in on youtube makes you feel like youve done your part huh retard. sit your dumbass down
cushe83 4 years ago
No. It's time for you to sitchore dumbass down because your sentence structure is severely lacking! Since when is "scence" even a word? Damn!
avebynd115 4 years ago
bitch who the fuck was talkign to you, you just mad becuase you got rejected from match . com for having to many kids hood rat, sit down.
cushe83 4 years ago
go to school!
RebelWitACauze 4 years ago
go lauryn!!
ricardito 4 years ago
I think Lauryn shoul stop talking and do what she does best......Dress funny and sang.
billyshonuff 4 years ago
that made me chuckle
nsr0802 4 years ago
hi durr
billyshonuff 4 years ago
Since the re-emergence of Lauryn Hill I've noticed that she has been subjected to a raft of criticism, like all you haters on this site who diss her but pay money to go and see her concerts and search for her videos on YouTube to make absurd claims.
The truth is her talent, intelligence, and intellect is way beyond yours which is why you cant receive her message!
jamesbarber4 4 years ago
Yeah, uh huh, drink, smoke, and coke make u a geniUS!
avebynd115 4 years ago
Can someone transcribe this? I couldn't catch a few lines of what she said.
NoirFemme 4 years ago
what she's sayin is it's better to burn out than to fade away!
9 years since miseducation and it obviously shows
hooperpiccalero 4 years ago
Oooo lawd Ms Hill you do you and SING BYTCH!!! We dont need any explanation....just sing..work those vocals..GODDAMNIT!!!
AFRICANBRO 4 years ago
This woman has gained a premature wisdom, she is so gifted and talented.... can't wait to see her new album
tdidddy 4 years ago 2
U Guys r idiots! If u listened to anything she said u'd know she wasn't crazy! She's trying to open ur minds to the truth and its said how u people have recieved her! She is truely exceptional and a genius at what she does! Just because u dont understand her doesnt mean she's crazy! GET A GRIP!
cuntysasha 4 years ago
wtf? Lauren used to be the shit but i swear she needs to stop ranting and raving about cleaning herself up and do the damn thing. Im getting kind of tired of hearing about her crying and whining about people trying to change her when nobody has even SEEN her in the last few years. Just shut up and make some music.
malissav 4 years ago
i totally agree w/you ...she is the only one trying to change herself...just sing man!! dayuum...
AFRICANBRO 4 years ago
EMINEM said it best when he said... "i bought lauren hills tape so her kids could starve"
loganthedog 4 years ago
LOL @ coked out, funny.
jazzfunkshizzle 4 years ago
i do lyk laurens music bt ders nt bin mch ov it recentli n she as every right 2 b protective bt she is a bit rasist 2 us wite folk!
beckiroo1phamad 4 years ago
still a great artist
KO2HH 4 years ago
Thats what the Marley brothers will do to yea! lol... das some good shit she was smoking...
seen53 4 years ago
OKKKKKKKKK CRAZY...
LANELLO 4 years ago
I agree she never said where she been and who is Lauren stylist he/she needs to be FIRED!!!It's ashame 10 yrs. and still no great comeback.
rvcrews 4 years ago
lawd yall shoulda saw her outfit. this aint the half.
i still love ya lauryn even if u didnt really explain where the hell u been.
damone56 4 years ago
she chick has lost it...used tolove her but now all she does to rant about how the media is making her "seem" crazy...the truth is SHE IS A F*CKING NUT
jamnina23 4 years ago
omg i so agree with you, she has f****** lost it.
malissav 4 years ago
Listen I just did a few grams this weekend son!!!This bitch is coked tha fuck out!!! "An....Iconic...Identity" my ass, she is fuct up son!!!
benamukee 4 years ago
Its sad that we been giving her chances since that awful unpluged.. Sorry yall she needs to retire
sexylatino6518 4 years ago
HA she aint comming back!
miaangel247 4 years ago
It's been 9 years since her last successful album and she shows no signs of getting it together. I think she has crossed over into "washed up" has-been status.
dredlockesq 4 years ago
this bitch is a tran wreck waiting to happen. Bitch i didn't pay 2 hear ur explanations about ur sorry ass life, shut up and sing or either shut up and take off ur top.
enigma35 4 years ago
This concert was horrible! Voice was horrible! Half the audience walked out! We were sitting below....still mad about the waste of time and money.Waiting 10yrs for nothing. I had so much respect for her until this fiasco.
QueenGabrielle 4 years ago
God bless her!
Afrofoxy 4 years ago
Lauryn you have support you are not even aware of. Please stay strong; because, there are those with ears that do hear exactly what you are saying. You are truly one of a kind. Lauryn you will always have an audience you may lose some supposed fans along the way, but I am confident you will gain some new ones. Its your journey enjoy the walk.
truthis1934 4 years ago
I applaud her for coming forward and being honest with her fans about what was going on in her life.
blakchik25 4 years ago 2
Poor Rohan.
tanyaknows 4 years ago
The U!
scatman44 4 years ago
poor Rohan...give me a break that is one of the major reasons she's been Buggin'. He's just as confused if not More and a major egotistical womanizer. His first wife took the 2 kids got away quick and remarried, moved on, new life. Ms. Hill should of done the same! Instead she had 4 of his babies in 5 years and was having problems with him after the first one so should of know better. For all that, Rohan didn't even marry Lauryn.
MsBitchy007 4 years ago
Dawn lauren cocaine is a power drug
PRIEST165 4 years ago
there's hope
mightymax019 4 years ago
Yes! I have faith in her.
LauryNet 4 years ago
she's still the shiznit. baddesst chick ever!!!
DerekCramer 4 years ago 2