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The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
She built an entire album around a classroom learning what love is. Some of us are still in that class, and that's okay.
Who it's for
The album is framed as an education: interludes of a teacher (poet and politician Ras Baraka) talking with children about love run between the songs, turning the whole record into a lesson plan on what love is and isn't.
Feelings it meets
What it is
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill is Lauryn Hill's 1998 solo album on Ruffhouse and Columbia, written and produced almost entirely by Hill, with Che Pope and Vada Nobles also credited as producers. It is a concept album about learning about love, covering relationships, interpersonal conflict, motherhood and faith. Interludes feature Ras Baraka as a teacher talking with a classroom of children about love.
Where to find it
Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, Amazon Music, Tidal; also on CD/vinyl.
Before you start
Heads up: Strong language and heartbreak.
Age: Not verified (strong language; suggested 14+)
Insist on yourself; never imitate.Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays: First Series, “Self-Reliance”
