Currently president and chief strategy officer for Sodo Mood Lab, Global, his new music tech app, Jean is busy working on another score: this time for Showtime’s hit drama series The Chi, which premiered its new season on May 23.īlack Music Month Album Appreciation: 20 Years After Destiny's Child's 'Survivor,' Told by Michelle… Earning a Grammy Award nomination for album of the year, The Score later won two statuettes in 1997 for best rap album and best R&B performance by a duo or group with vocal (“Killing Me Softly”).īillboard recently caught up with Fugees co-founder Wyclef Jean in Cannes, France where he was serving as the Entertainment Lions for Music jury president at the 2021 Cannes Lions Awards (June 21-25). Three popular singles were spun off: “Fu-Gee-La,” “Ready or Not” and the group’s intriguing cover of Roberta Flack’s 1973 classic “Killing Me Softly,” largely sung solo by Hill. 1 on the Billboard 200 for four consecutive weeks, The Score reigned for eight weeks at No. In addition to writing and producing the album themselves along with Wonda, the Fugees collaborated with other producers such as Salaam Remi, Diamond D and Shawn King. The hip-hop trio birthed the project inside Booga Basement, the New Jersey-based home studio established by Jean’s cousins, brothers Renel and Jerry “Wonda” Duplessis. Ĭritically acclaimed as one of the greatest albums of the ’90s - and certified by the RIAA as 7x platinum - The Scor e illuminates the disruptive, alternative magic that was the Fugees: Lauryn Hill, Wyclef Jean and Pras Michel.
Billboard wraps the series by riding the time machine back to 1996 and the release of the Fugees’ second and last studio album, The Score.
In honor of Black Music Month, Billboard has highlighted several seminal music albums that defined the last quarter-century: Drake’s Take Care, Rick Ross’ Port of Miami and Survivor by Destiny’s Child.
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