Re: Lauryn Hill Makes Me Feel Unwell


Jason Witherspoon (arzachel@best.com)
Sat, 6 Mar 1999 00:19:06 -0800



At 9:50 PM -0800 3/5/99, Paul Berger wrote:
> BTW, while on the subject, has Wyclef ever done an original tune? I
> thought his 'cover' of "STAYIN' ALIVE" was a musical massacre bested
> only by Puff Daddy's slaughter of "KASHMIR".

Have you actually heard The Carnival? It's a pretty great album.
It's got probably the best opera loop I've heard in a hip-hop song
("Apocalypse", loosely based on Ambrose Bierce's "An Occurrence at
Owl Creek Bridge"-- & hey, I'd love to hear of better hip-hopera
melanges, bring 'em on!), & the rootsy, Haitian/Reggae (? pardon the
ignorance) folksongs really fit in nicely. Bonus points for sampling
Manu Dibango, & I the non-Dylan version of "Gone Til November" is
quite fine. "Anything Can Happen" is a great tune, there's an ace
cover of "Guantanamera", & the skits are kinda funny!! As usual, the
most ass song is the first into heavy rotation, but damn, why's
everyone playa hate 'Clef so much?

Speaking of opera + hip-hop, wasn't there supposed to be a
compilation of just that released a few years back? Oh, my girlfren
just told me, it's call Rapsody (sp?) Anyone heard it?

                                         Jason Witherspoon

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