I was the kid that watched MTV music videos as I got dressed in the morning and never missed 106 & Park because of artists like Missy Elliot. "The fashion sense of female rappers has always been a powerful source of inspiration to me. A blend of hip-hop, rock, and soul, the bending and rebending of what hip-hop could be was eye-opening.” - Rissa Papillion, Producer The song felt like a ‘fuck you’ to the establishment that tried to contain this new and every evolving genre of music. A little too much or too little of everything.
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‘I don't beg // For no rich man // And I don't scream, and kick, when his shit don't fall in my hands, man //'Cause I know how to steal.’ I felt like this song validated who I was at 20 years old: a young Black woman who didn’t feel accepted in any facet of my life. But the standout track was The Seed 2.0.’ It became the song of my summer.
The playlist skewed Outkast but had some heavy hitters like UGK’s ‘Int’l Players Club’ and the majority of Mos Def’s Black on Both Sides. The song was released in March of 2003, but I didn’t hear it until the summer between my junior and senior year of college in 2010 when I lingered on campus for a few weeks after finals, and I begged my friend to send me playlist that I could listen to to take my mind off of the suffocating heat that comes with Philly summers. “‘ The Seed 2.0’ by Cody Chesnut & The Roots. No matter how late she shows up, I will ride for Lauryn Hill till the day I die for the gift she gave me with these lyrics!” - Kathleen Newman-Bremang - Deputy Director, Global Without these songs, the soundtrack of my life would be incomplete. I learned what love is - and isn’t - thanks to ‘ Nothing Even Matters,’ ‘ Ex Factor’ and ‘ I Used To Love Him.’ I learned how to stand up for myself, my worth, and what success should look like thanks to ‘ Lost Ones,’ ‘Superstar,’ and ‘Final Hour.’ I learned how to feel my feelings during heartbreak and pick myself back up again because of ‘When It Hurts So Bad.’ There are lyrics from this album that have acted like a guiding light throughout my adult life (‘everyday people, they lie to God too/ so what makes you think that they won’t lie to you?’) and ones that take me right back to when ‘I was just a little girl/ skinny legs, a press and curl.’ It’s hard to put into words what this album means to me because it gave me the words to find myself during my formative years. And I say that as no disrespect to my big brothers or my mom and dad who also did their part in shaping me into the person I am, but it was the bars on Miseducation that built me into writer, a creative, an intellectual, a lover, and a woman.
“ The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill raised me. A real hot girl inspiration.” - Ineye Komonibo - Culture Critic She’s exactly what hip-hop, that music, that pop culture needs: a ‘round the way girl who does whatever she wants, never loses, and always looks good doing her thing. You get it.) As she switches effortlessly from a syrupy, sexy flow (‘Cognac Queen’ and ‘Big Ole Freak’) to powerful anthems for the moments when you need to remember that you’re that girl (‘Running Up Freestyle’), Meg proves to be a close study of the Houston sound, embodying the very essence of one of hip-hop’s most important influences even from her early underground days while simultaneously injecting the genre with her own addictive special sauce.
(Well, if I was tall and thicker than a bowl of cold oatmeal and good at rapping. Growing up in Houston, I knew about all the greats - Bun B, Z-Ro, Paul Wall, Slim Thug, Pimp C - but Megan was a revelation because was just like me. “The very first time I heard Megan Thee Stallion’s ‘Stalli Freestyle,’ I was mesmerized.
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