The Score (album)

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The Score
Studio album by Fugees

Publication
(s)

February 13, 1996

Label (s) Columbia Records

Format (s)

CD

Genre (s)

Hip hop

Title (number)

17th

running time

77:46 min

production

Fugees, Salaam Remi, John Forté, Shawn King, and Diamond D

Studio (s)

Booga Basement in New Jersey , The Crib in New York City , Anchor Recording Studios in Kingston

chronology
Blunted on Reality
(1994) 		The Score -

The Score is the second and so far last studio album by the hip-hop group Fugees . It was released in February 1996 through Columbia Records .

concept

The album was designed as a musical melting pot of modern music culture, which Pras Michel traced back to the listening habits of the members in a 1996 interview. Composed with quotes and references from reggae , soul , hip-hop and Haitian folklore it acts partly Genre -übergreifend what at that time in the East Coast hip-hop was a rather unpopular approach.

The arrangement of the album, based on samples ( e.g. the songs Ooh La La La by Teena Marie , Ready or Not (Here I Come) by The Delfonics or Rock Dis Funky Joint by Poor Righteous Teachers are used) from drum computers and live instrumentation, is much more melody-oriented and warmer in tone than the then successful Dr. Dre production based on synthesizers . The Fugees saw themselves in the tradition of De La Soul , which was reflected, among other things, in the accessible, catchy implementation of complex topics. The sometimes very clear content ( Explicit Content ) of the texts Pras described as a “spiritual expression of one's own consciousness”. Thematically, The Score deals with Afrocentric as well as hip-hop-critical content and debates with areas of social and cultural issues such as religion , police corruption or the glorification of crime . Stephen Marley , Rah Digga , Young Zee , Pacewon, Akon , Salaam Remi, John Forté, Shawn King, and Diamond D contributed to the album .

Track list

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
The Score
  DE 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 05/19/1996 (46 weeks)
  AT 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 05/19/1996 (28 weeks)
  CH 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 04/28/1996 (44 weeks)
Singles
Fu-Gee-La
  DE 25th 05/06/1996 (19 weeks)
  AT 12 06/23/1996 (14 weeks)
  CH 9 07/21/1996 (3 weeks)
Killing Me Softly
  DE 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 07/01/1996 (24 weeks)
  AT 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 07/14/1996 (21 weeks)
  CH 9 06/16/1996 (28 weeks)
Ready or Not
  DE 15th 09/16/1996 (8 weeks)
  AT 17th 09/29/1996 (12 weeks)
  CH 23 10/13/1996 (10 weeks)
No Woman, No Cry
  DE 33 12/09/1996 (11 weeks)
  AT 40 01/05/1997 (1 week)
  CH 23 12/15/1996 (10 weeks)
  1. Red Intro - 1:51
  2. How Many Mics - 4:28
  3. Ready Or Not - 3:47
  4. Zealots - 4:20
  5. The Beast - 5:37
  6. Fu-Gee-La - 4:20
  7. Family Business - 5:43
  8. Killing Me Softly - 4:58
  9. The Score - 5:02
  10. The Mask - 4:50
  11. Cowboys - 5:23
  12. No Woman, No Cry - 4:33
  13. Manifest / Outro - 5:59
  14. Fu-Gee-La [Refugee Camp Remix] - 4:22
  15. Fu-Gee-La [Sly & Robbie Mix] - 5:27
  16. Mista Mista - 2:42
  17. Fu-Gee-La [Refugee Camp Global Mix] - 4:20

reception

Charts

The Score entered the German album charts at number 62 on April 22, 1996 and climbed to number 1 in the 29th calendar week of 1996 within 13 weeks, where it held for over 6 weeks. By March 10, 1997 (88th place) The Score had stayed in the top 100 for 46 weeks, before it was recorded for the last time in the charts on March 24th 1997 at 91st place and with a total of 47 weeks.

criticism

The reaction from fans and critics was mostly positive, which was mainly due to the eclectic design of the album, which included singing and rap equally. The time attested the record to have pretty melodies and to be very well assembled and saw in the many reverences and quotes that the album contains, the hardness of rap, the lightness of reggae and the warmth of soul merged into an “amazing vision black music ”. The editorial staff of the intro praised the band's hip-hop design with this album, as they would approach many of the 'rules' of rap unconventionally or even break them, and interpreted this as “further development [of rap music] [...] through simplification [...] ". Intro also wrote that every listener musically "can learn a lot from this record". Angus Taylor likened to bbc.co.uk the Fugees with Santana and Bob Marley , as they in similar form to a named her musical socialization in hip-hop are decorated for the masses would do.

Other critics saw Fu-Gee-La as the quintessence of the Fugee sound and saw the release of the single No Woman, No Cry immediately after 2Pac's death as an obvious symbol of peace for the hip-hop scene, but saw the remaining titles on the record not on the same level as the singles and sometimes called them inferior. Juice magazine , not yet published in the album's 1996 year of release, took The Score at number 71 in its list of the "100 best rap albums" in 2002 and justified this decision with the fact that it was responsible for the career advancements of Lauryn Hill and Wyclef Jean was. The Rolling Stone lists The Score at number 477 of his 500 best albums of all time , and Robert Dimery has The Score in his musical anthology 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die added.

Awards

Trivia

  • On the Fu-Gee-La ( Sly & Robbie Mix) there is a contribution by the singer Akon , who is only mentioned in the booklet in the acknowledgments.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Interview with Pras Michel around 1996 ( Memento of the original from February 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.toazted.com
  2. ↑ https://www.allmusic.com/album/mw0000646570
  3. ↑ see CD - Credits CB 791
  4. ↑ http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,291360,00.html
  5. ↑ a b http://www.nytimes.com/1996/02/13/arts/critic-s-choice-pop-cd-s-prison-makes-rap-tougher.html
  6. ↑ Interview with Pras Michel around 1996 ( Memento of the original from February 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; Pras when asked how he assesses the status of the Fugees in the hip-hop world of 96 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.toazted.com
  7. ↑ a b Sources Chart positions: Albums DE ( Memento of the original from September 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.musicline.de
  8. ↑ Sources Chart placements: Singles DE ( Memento of the original from March 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.musicline.de
  9. ↑ Sources chart placements: Singles AT
  10. ↑ Sources chart placements: Singles CH
  11. ^ Ulrich Stock: CD review: Fugees: The Score . In: The time . No. 17/1996 ( online ).
  12. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated August 26, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.intro.de
  13. ↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/3h25
  14. ↑ http://www.sputnikmusic.com/album.php?reviewid=1453
  15. ↑ Juice Magazin No. 40 April 2002 p. 54
  16. ↑ https://www.allmusic.com/album/mw0000646570
  17. ↑ http://www.ifpi.at/?section=goldplatin
  18. ↑ - ( Memento of the original from September 7, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ifpi.com
  19. ^ SNEP : Database with search for diamond records awarded in 1997
  20. ↑ Interview with Wiclef Jean

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