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when i was a freshman in 1994, i didnt know that the fugees were not popular yet. this album was so hot in the suburbs of dc where i grew up. it was perfect. i remember riding in my moms car bobbing my head to this song. this song fit into perfectly to the music that we were listening to at the moment. spare. unique. lyrically militant. man, it has been a long time since i thought of myself as militant.

we did not think of it as unusual that a woman would rap with a bunch of guys. nor did they seem like they were a studio company constructed group. they seemed like they could be chilling on a block (much cooler) like ours in our little suburban neighborhood.

anyways a few years later the fugees blew up and everyone was talking about them and i read in article after article how their first album had been ‘unsuccessful’ but check this video. dear god. may i be this unsuccessful someday.

in college we used to judge folks if they had this album ‘blunted on reality’ or if they just had the commercially successful next album.