Lauryn Hill Explains Updating Her Classics At Rock The Bells [Video Inside]
Of her four Rock the Bells Tour stops, Lauryn Hill hasn't had one show exactly like any of the others.
On Saturday in New York, she brought a host of celebs onstage — including Jay-Z and Beyoncé — and on Sunday, at the closer in Washington, D.C., Nas was her guest. The two performed Esco's classic "If I Ruled the World."
As for Hill's own classics from The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill and the Fugees' The Score, she constantly changed up the arrangements for the records. The legendary songstress said she needed to be free.
"There's been such a long period of time where I haven't been able to communicate where my mind is, where my consciousness is, where my ideas are," she told MTV News on Saturday. "I have to upgrade them a bit so that they're still exciting and fresh and they're new. There's something almost jazz-like the way I approach performances. I'm not sure if the audience really understands. We need, or at least I need, a certain amount of spontaneity, a certain amount of improvisation every show. I might have gotten spoiled from the Fugee days. We used to improvise a lot. It kept it so fresh and exciting. I need that. I need that improvisational, almost jazz-like improvisational dynamic when I'm onstage. It keeps it so exciting. It's that unknown, that literal X factor that makes every show something different — something unique and something I want to continue to do."
Hill said that's just where she is as an artist right now. "That's the type of mind that I have, the type of spirit I have," she said. "I need that new energy."
For the outing, Hill said it was incredible to find musicians who are fearless.
"This is an athletic discipline," she described. "You gotta be in shape to do it mentally, emotionally, spiritually, physically. But it's time. We're excited about what the future holds."
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Comment by David Asmanis-De Schacht on September 1, 2010 at 2:11pm -
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F*** Nikki Minaj and her sharp nose
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Comment by BooBoo Spirit~ on September 1, 2010 at 10:41am -
I love HER!
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Comment by Cide on September 1, 2010 at 10:21am
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I was there in DC on Sunday and she was terrible, they even managed to ruin "If I ruled the world" by not having Nas's mic turned on for the first half of the one verse he spit, she's finished.
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Comment by Benny on September 1, 2010 at 10:20am -
Ah for god sakes she is hanging with Jay and Swizzy? This ain't a good look in my opinion. They buttering her up? Dunno yet. But once you see some corny devil s*** I'll know its a wrap. Hope not thou.
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Comment by Foolish B on September 1, 2010 at 10:17am -
her skin just looks dry
like the evil witch from the wizard of oz
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Comment by LUCIANNA LIMA on September 1, 2010 at 10:16am -
Hill next week will be in Brazil for another show. I hope this show is wonderful.
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Comment by Foolish B on September 1, 2010 at 10:14am
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damn, lauryn looks old as s***
i still consider her top female mc of all time though
her bars go harder and deeper than 99% of niggas in the rap game
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Comment by carlitosway on September 1, 2010 at 9:34am
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lauryn hill look like oprah in the color purple lmao
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Comment by STAGGALEE on September 1, 2010 at 9:06am -
I LUV ME SOME LAURYN HILL.
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