The combination of the Marley influence and motherhood transformed Hill into a teacher— you could say a desk from her classroom is featured on the album cover. Her lesson plans revolve around the definition of love, what it means to be in love, and what you feel in both good and bad times. Hill said she gathered knowledge around these topics from her pregnancy, which gave her the ability to communicate her feelings better than ever and connect with thousands of people with her lyrical honesty and transparency. She wrote down everything she was feeling in hopes her music could teach anyone how to get through a stressful situation.

But at the height of their success, The Fugees destroyed themselves from the inside out. Before The Score was finished, Jean, who was married, and Hill became romantically involved, and drama complicated their relationship and the group’s health. On her last day in the studio while recording the album, she quit the band. She said she “couldn’t be a part of it anymore” but gave Jean and Michel permission to use her voice on the album. Before she left, she laid down the hook as “Ready or Not” in the vocal booth as her final thoughts. Once the album hit store shelves and started selling well, Jean and Hill had fixed their relationship enough to plot a promotional tour. Following the success of her debut album, Hill largely dropped out of public view, in part due to her displeasure with fame and the music industry. After a four-year hiatus, she released MTV Unplugged 2.0, a live recording of "deeply personal songs" performed mostly solo with an acoustic guitar. Today, she avoids publicity, and is the mother of five children with Rohan Marley, the fourth son of reggae musician Bob Marley. These lessons shook the world and made Lauryn Hill a sensation. Hill was nominated in ten categories and scooped up trophies for Best New Artist, Best R&B Song, Best Female R&B Vocal Performance, and Best R&B Album at the 1999 Grammy Awards. This made her the first woman in the show’s history to receive that many nominations. She was also the first hip-hop artist to be featured on the cover of Time magazine and many other major publishers. In 2015, it was included in the Library of Congress in the National Recording Registry. American singer-songwriter, rapper, recording artist, musician, producer, and actress born on May 26th, 1975 in East Orange, NJ. Early in her career, she established her reputation as a member of the Fugees. In 1998, she launched her solo career with the release of the commercially successful and critically acclaimed album, The Miseducation Of Lauryn Hill. The recording earned Hill five Grammy Awards, including the coveted album of the year and best new artist awards. While Lauryn Hill achieved great fame as a member of NYC-based hip-hop trio The Fugees, she never expected the pressure that came along with the success behind The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. As a member of The Fugees, the acclaim they received for their last album The Score was shared between three people. As a solo artist that burst the bubble in introducing hip-hop into popular culture, the celebration and eventual obsession with her music became relentless. Hill couldn’t live a proper life because her music always cast a shadow over the simplicity she desired. Her music became religious to some, and that creeped her out. It inspired her to disappear and avoid the expectations of popular media to keep her individuality intact.

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Selected items are only available for delivery via the Royal Mail 48® service and other items are available for delivery using this service for a charge. Zion also made Lauryn Hill a part of the Marley musical legacy. Rohan wasn’t a musician- he was a professional football and now a regular businessman. When Hill became pregnant with his children (they had five before they divorced), she had the opportunity to contribute to the musical vision Bob Marley established— one that meditates on peace and harmony and tries to spark social change through music. Hill had been inspired by the reggae legend long before she met Rohan, so this was a tremendous honor for her. Marley will be seen as the face of reggae music forever, and he definitely helped Hill come into the inspiring and critical woman she was in 1997. With The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, she rhymes her philosophy of life and love to inspire others to think differently about the world around them, just like Bob. Listen: Colleen ‘Cosmo’ Murphy on ‘ The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill’ on Classic Album Sundays on Worldwide FM

In an interview around the album’s release, Lauryn said, “When some women are pregnant, their hair and nails grow, but for me, it was my mind and ability to create. I had the desire to write in a capacity that I hadn’t done in a while. I don’t know if it’s a hormonal or emotional thing… I was very in touch with my feelings. Every time I got hurt, every time I was disappointed, every time I learned, I just wrote a song.”