Hill granted a rare interview on the making of Miseducation as well as what happened after. More recently, she has found herself back on the road more frequently, sporadically releasing music but mostly basking in the collective love and power of Miseducation through special performances of the album.įor the latest episode of Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums podcast, Ms. In 2012, she was charged with tax fraud, and went on to serve three months in prison. After the album’s release, some of Hill’s collaborators filed a lawsuit claiming she did not properly credit them for their contributions that suit was settled out of court three years later on undisclosed terms.

The years that followed Miseducation have been complicated. Vincent has cited Hill as having heavily influenced their own music. Beyond that, the album’s impact on multiple generations of musicians is unmistakeable. Many of her songs continue to permeate culture, like the single “Ex-Factor,” which has been sampled or interpolated on major hits by Drake and Cardi B. More than 20 years after its release, it is still regarded as one of the best albums ever made, landing at Number 10 on Rolling Stone‘s voter-based 500 Greatest Albums of All Time List this past fall. The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill lives on. 2.0 from 2002, where she performed new songs in an acoustic style to a largely tepid reception. She has never released another studio album her last full-length release was MTV Unplugged No. Hill left behind the fame and the industry almost entirely. Miseducation took home five Grammy Awards and led to a huge tour. Hill herself became as big as her music, appreciated in the fashion world and sought after by movie executives for roles she would eventually decline. Released in 1998, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill filled clubs, radio stations, and MTV with her smooth voice and biting rhymes.

Then, at just 22 years old, Hill took a huge leap and decided to go solo.

She first rose to fame as an actress and a member of the Fugees, whose second and final album, 1996’s The Score, remains one of that decade’s biggest albums. In the late Nineties, the story of popular music became the story of Ms.

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