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“We set out to put our thoughts and musical ideas out there, hoping they’d be appreciated. That’s proved to be true”: Sampled by Grandmaster Flash, De La Soul and the Fugees, Cymande shaped the sound of hip-hop. Now they’re back to claim their legacy

Cymande’s influence on hip-hop culture is huge. But with new album Renascence, the spotlight returns to the funk institution, and Patrick Patterson is here to play

Guitar World

Lauryn Hill and Stevie Wonder lead tributes to Roberta Flack in memorial full of music and memories

Flowers filled the Abyssinian Baptist Church in New York as a service open to the public was held in honour of the legendary artist

The Independent UK

Music flows as Stevie Wonder and Lauryn Hill lead tributes at Roberta Flack memorial

Grammy winner, who died last month at 88, remembered at New York service with series of star performers

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"Quincy told her, 'Ro, don't sing that doggone song no more until you record it'": A music professor breaks down Roberta Flack's Killing Me Softly with His Song

“I can’t think of another major hit with a fourteen-bar chorus”

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Roberta Flack’s enduring legacy

Flack, who died Monday at 88, is being honored by her peers as one of the greatest soul singers of all time

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“We have no problem with sampling. If it hadn’t been for that you probably wouldn’t be interviewing us today”: Cymande bassist Steve Scipio on how the funk pioneers were almost buried before crate diggers like De La Soul and the Fugees brought them back

Ahead of a brand-new album, Scipio reveals what he’s kept and what he’s changed over 50 years of playing bass – and why he still only needs one pedal

Guitar World

Pras Michel 'never wanted to be a spy'

The Fugees star Prakazrel ‘Pras’ Michel has declared he "never wanted to be a spy" after being convicted of 10 charges in an international fraud case which included accusations he acted as an unregistered agent of a foreign government.

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'I'm done with that': Pras quits Fugees after suing Lauryn Hill

Pras says he is having nothing more to do with Fugees amid his legal row with bandmate Lauryn Hill.

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Lauryn Hill sued by Fugees bandmate for fraud over tour. She says the lawsuit is 'baseless'

Fugees rapper Pras is suing his bandmate Lauryn Hill for fraud over the group’s shortened 2023 reunion tour

The Independent UK

Lauryn Hill responds to ‘baseless’ lawsuit from Fugees co-founder over failed 2023 tour

Hill argues the lawsuit against her ‘is full of false claims and unwarranted attacks’

The Independent UK

Lauryn Hill sued by Fugees co-member Pras Michél over failed tour

The singer is at the centre of a lawsuit accusing her of fraud and breach of contract over the collapse of an arena tour

The Guardian - US

Judge Denies New Trial In Rapper's Political Conspiracy Case

Judge denies new trial motion in high-profile case involving rapper Pras Michel; AI program use not unfair.

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Judge rejects claims that generative AI tanked political conspiracy case against Fugees rapper Pras

A judge has rejected a push for a new trial in a multimillion-dollar political conspiracy case against rapper Pras Michel of the Fugees

The Independent UK

Fugees Rapper Pras Michel Not Entitled to New Trial Based on Lawyer's Use of AI to Help Craft Closing Argument

Among other things, "Michel does not explain how ... the [AI-generated] mistaken attribution of a Puff Daddy song in the closing argument" sufficiently undermined his case.

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“We were blessed with a mini impromptu concert and it was lit!!” Lauryn Hill performs at her high school reunion

Lauryn Hill turns up to her high school reunion and performs an impromptu set

The Guardian - UK

Lauryn Hill blames ‘clickbait headlines’ for low ticket sales and cancelled US tour

Tour featuring Hill and her reunited group Fugees was due to begin this week, but Hill blames media sensationalism for impacting sales

The Independent UK

Lauryn Hill blames media ‘sensationalism’ for tour cancellation

Musician said the way that previous cancellations have been reported has put fans off buying tickets for her new shows

Evening Standard

Lauryn Hill and Fugees fans fear for UK Miseducation Anniversary Tour after US dates mysteriously cancelled

It’s not the first time that the iconic hip hop trio have cancelled on fans

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The Independent UK

Lauryn Hill and The Fugees abruptly cancel Miseducation US tour dates

Fans said it was ‘disheartening’ to be a fan of Hill

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Lauryn Hill And Fugees Reunite For Epic Coachella Performance

Experience an electrifying Coachella set by YG Marley featuring Lauryn Hill, Wyclef Jean, and Busta Rhymes, paying homage to Bob Marley with iconic perform...

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“We made somebody 8 million dollars”: Wyclef Jean reflects on The Fugees’ version of Killing Me Softly earning big money for someone else, and how he ended up on “the other side of the game” when DJ Khaled revived a 1999 song he wrote for Santana

“It could be a billion streams of Khaled and Rihanna, but the composition itself is the real estate”

The Independent UK

Backstage with the Fugees: Pras on his hip-hop legacy as he awaits sentencing in conspiracy case

Backstage at the second Los Angeles show of Lauryn Hill and the Fugees' anniversary tour, Pras Michel was optimistic

The Independent UK

Lauryn Hill defends famous lateness to her own concerts: ‘Y’all lucky I make it on this stage every night’

American rapper and singer-songwriter is currently on tour for the 25th anniversary of her debut album ‘The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill’

Chicago Sun-Times

Lauryn Hill postpones Philadelphia concert to rest her voice

A few days before her tour’s Chicago stop, singer says doctors left her no choice but to take the break.

Reason

Fugees Rapper Pras Michel Claims His Defense Lawyer Ineffectively Used AI Program That Led to Botching Closing Argument

"Kenner used an experimental AI program to write his closing argument, which made frivolous arguments, conflated the schemes, and failed to highlight key weaknesses in the Government's case."

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