The Score
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The Score
The Score is the second and final studio album by the hip hop trio Fugees, released worldwide February 13, 1996 on Columbia Records. The album features a wide range of samples and instrumentation, with many aspects of alternative hip hop that would come to dominate the hip hop music scene in the mid-late 1990s. The Score's production was handled mostly by the Fugees themselves, Jerry Duplessisand Warren Riker, with additional production from Salaam Remi, John Forté, Diamond D, Warren Riker and Shawn King. The album's guest raps are from Outsidaz members Rah Digga, Young Zee and Pacewon, as well as Omega, John Forté, and Diamond D. Most versions of the album feature four bonus tracks, including three remixes of "Fu-Gee-La", and a short acoustic Wyclef Jean solo track entitled "Mista Mista". -Wikipedia
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Billboard
Throughout The Score, the individual Fugees follow their own paths, thematically intersecting whenever they feel like it.
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BBC
Sure, it doesn’t sound quite as innovative as it did then, but blow the dust off, give it a spin and you’ll find plenty to enjoy.
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NME
It is, without doubt, one of the greatest albums ever made.
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Rolling Stone
The Score paints the ghetto as a mythical landscape, one that can inspire pride as well as sorrow.
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Entertainment Focus
The Score remains a masterpiece and the themes it explores are as relevant today as they were back in the 90s. This album was made for vinyl and the beats sound fresher than ever.
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All Music
The Score balances intelligence and accessibility with an easy assurance, and ranks as one of the most distinctive hip-hop albums of its era.
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WPGM
The Score is a totally valid explanation for the Fugees gaining mammoth success and becoming a group that countless musicians still find inspiration in and bow down to today.
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Sputnik Music
The Score is a prime example of an album that needs to be placed in context for the listener to understand why it's classic.
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Festival Peak
When look back at the lasting legacy of an album that was released 20 years ago today it’s mind boggling. Everyone knows “The Score”…
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Albumism
we’ll always be able to return to The Score to relive the threesome’s winsome, albeit ephemeral glory days.
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Spectrum Culture
Their multi-platinum sophomore album pushed back against the more nefarious aspects of hip hop and injected the genre with a potent dose of the cinematic and cerebral.
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Unbelievable Beats
“The Score” is one of the best hip hop albums of all time.
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Amino
This album was great in so many ways, the chemistry between each member is just something no one can match. Every song, you start to nice something.
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Rap Reviews
it's a deep, honest album that translates perfectly in the listener's ear. Sonically, it probably doesn't hold up quite as highly as the truly perfect classics, but this is an excellent example that greatness and importance can't always be quantified.
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Vinyl Me, Please
The Score is the classic album as astral comet.
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Chicago Reader
Though the rapping style does capture hard-core's tone, lyrically the Fugees refuse to give in to either the ghetto fatalism or the criminal mentality that have long been the sine qua non of hard-core rap.
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Stereogum
in terms of reach and impact, there haven’t been many albums, in any decade, that could match what The Score did. It resonated. How many albums resonate like that?
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Medium
Nevertheless, they really hit the score on this one (see what I did there?). It’s a near-perfect outing, melding the jazzy styles of Pharcyde or Gang Starr with a smattering of island sounds inspired by the three strong personalities of the band.
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Stumblings and Rumblings
After the disappointment of their debut album Blunted On Reality, it was great that Ruffhouse Records and Columbia gave the group another shot and we got The Score.
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Altrap
“The Score” is a complete work that encompasses underground flavor and makes it accessible to the mainstream.
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