The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill” tops Apple Music's list of the 100 best albums

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Prince, Michael Jackson, Beyoncé, The Beatles, Frank Ocean, Kendrick Lamar, Amy Winehouse, Stevie Wonder, and Nirvana all made the top 10.

Once every few years, a publication or some other entity must come out with a list of the greatest albums ever recorded. A few things are certain: It will invariably contain at least one album by The Beatles, it will have some very controversial choices, and Janet Jackson fans will be upset.

Apple Music's attempt is no different. Still, today, the streaming giant unveiled the top 10 in its list of the 100 best albums, crowning Lauryn Hill's landmark 1998 album, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, No. 1.

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'The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill'

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“This is my award, but it’s a rich, deep narrative, and involves so many people, and so much sacrifice, and so much time, and so much collective love," Hill said of the honor.

Billed as "a modern 21st-century ranking of the greatest records ever made," the list was curated by Apple Music’s team of experts alongside "a select group" of artists, songwriters, producers, and industry professionals.

To celebrate the top 10, legendary record producer and discosmith Nile Rodgersand beloved singer-songwriter Maggie Rogers sat down with Apple Music's Zane Lowe and Ebro Darden to chat the best of the best.

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'Purple Rain'

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"Lauryn brought everybody with her on this record," Rogers said of the No.1 pick. "She brought her community. She brought her friends and her family. You’re in the kitchen; you’re in the living room with her. You hear people; you hear the voices talking… It’s so open and so expansive and so direct… To have an artist like Lauryn Hill be the number one, that means a lot."

Rodgers simply added, "She’s amazing. This record is amazing."

Though Hill tops the list with her first and to-date only solo album, there are a handful of artists who have two entries on the 100 list, including The Beatles (Abbey Road at No. 3, Revolver at No. 21), Prince(Purple Rain at No. 4, Sign O' the Times at No. 51), Stevie Wonder (Songs in the Key of Life at No. 6, Innervisions at No. 44), and Beyoncé (Lemonade at No. 10, Beyoncé at No. 36).
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'Lemonade'

The top 10 in Apple Music's list of the 100 best albums:

1. The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill - Lauryn Hill
2. Thriller - Michael Jackson
3. Abbey Road - The Beatles
4. Purple Rain - Prince and the Revolution
5. Blonde - Frank Ocean
6. Songs in the Key of Life - Stevie Wonder
7. good kid, m.A.A.d city - Kendrick Lamar
8. Back to Black - Amy Winehouse
9. Nevermind - NIrvana
10. Lemonade - Beyoncé

All in all, not a terribly surprising list, perhaps with a few questionable placings here and there. After a while, these lists tend to look alike, anyway, but if they're good for anything, it's getting people to talk about music.
And as for Janet: No. 42 with Control. Not bad. Not great. But that's what you get when you qualify art.
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Was watching cnn when they talked about this questionable number 1 pick I’ve never heard of this nigger faggot and question how this is better than MJ or the Beatles.

 

[The Last Stand]

Go make more music instead of milking ghost written songs.

 

[Bassomatic]

It's always still amazing to me some how, people flat lie for attention and trying to sound like the emperor's new clothes are a good thing not a tale of arrogance.

She's a par and forgotten about 90s rapper FFS.

 

[Absolutego]

Pretty weird for it to be the #1 record, but it is a damn good album. Hill was the only member of the Fugees who went on to do anything good after they broke up (kind of proving she was the brains behind the group's success), and was pretty much the only female conscious rapper worth a damn. Though the people praising that record would absolutely rake her over the coals if Doo-Wop, aka "y'all niggas have horrible taste in men and your problems are your own damn fault", the single, came out today.

Too bad she had to do hood shit and piss off the IRS, and then lost all her mojo after going to tax evader prison.

 

[Larry David's Opera Cape]

Was watching cnn when they talked about this questionable number 1 pick I’ve never heard of this nigger faggot and question how this is better than MJ or the Beatles.

The album is decent enough but it is odd they would put it as number one. Lauryn Hill is a pretty interesting person- possibly a lolcow or a kiwi folk hero, depending on your perspective. She has named the J, condemned the rainbow mafia, and did time for tax evasion.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauryn_Hill

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

Sorry like.......where's Tragic Kingdom? Hounds of Love?

 

[Town Drunk]

Pretty weird for it to be the #1 record, but it is a damn good album. Hill was the only member of the Fugees who went on to do anything good after they broke up (kind of proving she was the brains behind the group's success), and was pretty much the only female conscious rapper worth a damn. Though the people praising that record would absolutely rake her over the coals if Doo-Wop, aka "y'all niggas have horrible taste in men and your problems are your own damn fault", the single, came out today.

Too bad she had to do hood shit and piss off the IRS, and then lost all her mojo after going to tax evader prison.

Wycleff was decent. Ruined his reputation with his Haiti charity scam, never kept up with him after that.

 

[TV's Adam West]

Wycleff was decent. Ruined his reputation with his Haiti charity scam, never kept up with him after that.

I was gonna say Wycleff was good, but never heard of this. If I was president was still a great treat on Dave Chappelle.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

Where's Scream Bloody Gore by Death, Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath, Powerslave by Iron Maiden, Number of the Beast by Iron Maiden, Stained Class by Judas Priest, Painkiller by Judas Priest, Dirt by Alice in Chains, Reign in Blood by Slayer, and De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas by Mayhem?

 

[Brenda Holiday]

Where's Scream Bloody Gore by Death, Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath, Powerslave by Iron Maiden, Number of the Beast by Iron Maiden, Stained Class by Judas Priest, Painkiller by Judas Priest, Dirt by Alice in Chains, Reign in Blood by Slayer, and De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas by Mayhem?

Metal doesn't count unless it's Master of Puppets or Paranoid.

 

[CharlesBarkley]

Sonichu and the hedgehog boys not number 1? FUCKING RIGGERS!!!

 

[The Hardest R]

The top 10 in Apple Music's list of the 100 best albums:

1. The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill - Lauryn Hill
2. Thriller - Michael Jackson
3. Abbey Road - The Beatles
4. Purple Rain - Prince and the Revolution
5. Blonde - Frank Ocean
6. Songs in the Key of Life - Stevie Wonder
7. good kid, m.A.A.d city - Kendrick Lamar
8. Back to Black - Amy Winehouse
9. Nevermind - NIrvana
10. Lemonade - Beyoncé

You can tell that this list was made by the most lily white of white girl hipsters. Lauryn Hill’s album is basically the only negress hip pop album that wasn’t a total embarrassment, compare it to Ice Spice and Sexyy Red. A once in a generation event so maybe there is an argument for it being on a chart like this due to how rare it is for a competent negress album but #1? Get the fuck out of here.

Lemonade is the other giveaway this was put together by white girls. This is when Beyoncé started moving away from appealing to black women to unintentionally appealing to middle class white girls. I’m surprised they didn’t list her cuntry album.

I don’t think a single black person would co-sign this list despite it being loaded with negro albums.

 

[Jobama]

I’m going to be honest, the only thing I knew about Lauryn Hill before today was that Kanye sampled her on All Falls Down and Believe What I Say. Just saying lists like this are just purposely designed to provoke controversy because they know putting a curveball in number once instead of something cliche like Thriller or Abbey Road will get more attention.

 

[Bonesjones]

Any top 10 album of all time that doesn't include Dire Straits is wrong

 

[MirrorNoir]

Pretty weird for it to be the #1 record, but it is a damn good album. Hill was the only member of the Fugees who went on to do anything good after they broke up (kind of proving she was the brains behind the group's success), and was pretty much the only female conscious rapper worth a damn.

Cue Peter Griffin loudly passive aggressively laughing in a loud mocking tone

Lauryn Hill is a MASSIVE fraud and her career self-destructed after a single solo album and got blackballed from the music industry because she broke the cardinal rule of being a talentless fucking hack in the music business: ALWAYS, ALWAYS pay your god-damn ghost writers what you owe them.

Hill was always an empty suit; a decent singer but one with not a single fucking original thought in her nigger brain. Wycleff was the brains of the Fugees and wrote their songs but Hill got uppity and wanted a solo career and her label basically quickly realized she had zero talent outside of singing other peoples works (something they should have known given that Hill only became famous doing a cover of Killing Me Softly). So they got all of the top young ghost writing talent they could find and paid them to basically write, produce, create TMOLH for Lauryn, who only did one thing and that was sing the songs. The music, the lyrics, the production? ALL GHOST WRITTEN.

But the kicker was that the Ghost writers, many of whom were new to the business but were aggressively head hunted to make Lauryn's album for her, were told point blank "You've created a masterpiece! Unfortunately you'll NEVER EVER fucking be allowed to take credit for it as we've decided we are going to lie to the world and say Lauryn wrote the music, lyrics, etc.". HOWEVER, the label told the ghost writers that they would be all handsomely compensated under the table by Lauryn Hill herself, as far as paying them money for their work and silence.... money Lauryn IMMEDIATELY refused to pay the ghost writers because "fuck them, I'm going to get all of the credit AND all of the money for the album!" type of evil behavior.

And since these guys were relatively new to the music world and who saw how Miseductation was a huge big titted hit making mad money, they refused to take shit laying down. They sued Lauryn Hill and the label for their cut of the profits and exposed how Lauryn was a fraud. Lauryn was ready to fucking fight the case on the grounds that she felt she could beggar them and kill the case by outspending them and dragging shit out. But the label, realizing that they were going to lose some super fucking talented ghost writers who had just put together a massive huge big titted hit and wanted them to make more massive big titted hits for the label, basically forced Lauryn to settle out of court and pay them what was promised to them. However, Lauryn demanded a settlement that basically kept them from getting formal credit on the album and future royalties. Which pissed her label off, since the cat was now out of the bag that she was a fraud but was still pretending to be a musical genius.

The ghost writers took the money and threw shade on Lauryn when the press called them out on how they didn't get official credit and just a one time lump sum from her and the label, by saying that Lauryn was a fraud and that she'll never make another god-damn album because her ego is so fucking great combined with the fact that no ghost writer would work with her again given how she broke the cardinal rule of employing a ghost writer by screwing her ghost writers out of their money. Which was true, as NO ONE, not even Wycleff, was willing to work with Lauryn Hill after the scandal. And when Lauryn DID try and turned in some demos for a potential future second album, the label told her to fuck off and get out of their sight; resulting in Hill's only second album being a live album and her being reduced to incoherent live music only due to her burning her bridges in the industry.

 

[Dog-O-Tron 5000v5.0]

To have an artist like Lauryn Hill be the number one, that means a lot."

Which is literally why they picked her, and not for artistic merit.

No Frank Sinatra? Only The Lonely is a masterpiece. Criss-Cross by Thelonius Monk? Brubeck's Time Out?

How about Tom Petty? Johnny Cash? Joe fucking Jackson-you really gonna say Night and Day isn't perfect? The Doors? Christ I don't even like him but where the hell is Billy Joel?

Even some of their choices by some bands are questionable. Sure IV is overplayed and over popular but from artistic development standpoint and in terms of influence it is a far better album by Zeppelin than II. And I'm not a major Beastie fan but I listen to them. I know the Real Fans fellate Paul's Boutique but License to Ill dropped like a bomb and changed music. Sometimes popular shit is popular for a reason.

And besides the Literally Who? artists, why waste space giving artists like Beyonce and The Beatles two albums?

LOL I'm not gonna open that stupid flipbook again, but holy fucking shit, was Simon and Garfunkel even on the list?

Trash. This should be in the ragebait thread.

 

[Megaton Punch]

>7/10 are black artists
>8/10 if you count honorable negro Amy Winehouse

They don't even try to make their propaganda subtle because they know that the only ones paying attention are incapable of knowing any better.

 

[I.B. Niggin]

List reads like it was compiled by someone that refuses to watch any movies that are black & white.

 

[Kulee Baba]

Lauryn Hill is a MASSIVE fraud and her career self-destructed after a single solo album and got blackballed from the music industry because she broke the cardinal rule of being a talentless fucking hack in the music business: ALWAYS, ALWAYS pay your god-damn ghost writers what you owe them…

Thank you for the Quick Rundown. That all makes sense. And then without those ghostwriters you get the disastrous Lauryn Hill Unplugged. Something that only stayed in the pop culture zeitgeist because Kanye sampled her crooning “ALL FALLS DOWN.”

It’s funny too because no one cares that Taylor Swift and Beyonce have teams on contributors for their albums. The Madonna single I like the most (when she was actually cute) is “Borderline” and that was written by Reggie Lucas.

But anyway I’m guessing Hill wasn’t really thinking with any common sense and just felt she wanted to prove that she was a strong woman who don’t need no man.

 

[Begemot]

@MirrorNoir I didn't know Wyclef wrote Lauryn's lines on The Score, fuck, now I've got Fugee-La stuck in my head.