Wyclef Jean Featuring Refugee Allstars ‎– The Carnival (1997)

Wyclef Jean was the first from The Fugees to release a solo project.

I got Wyclef Jean Presents the Carnival Featuring the Refugee Allstars from HMV and it possibly etched its name onto my favorite albums of all time list at Apocalypse, the first track after the hilarious courtroom introduction.

I admire the variety of production. Gone Til November is one of hip hop's most beautiful compositions. Anything Can Happen is fantastic. I don't really care what anyone says about We Trying To Stay Alive, I love it.

What I have in Wyclef Jean's Carnival is a wide range of sounds and styles. The album is a carnival on record. The eclectic nature of Carnival was closest I heard and experienced since the first De La Soul album.

I can name Wyclef Jean as an inspiration for my Suite Delight radio show. When I write about an album that I could discover new things from, The Carnival was recorded for that purpose.

Lauryn Hill

We all loved Lauryn Hill back in the day and still have a little love for her somewhere.

Her verse on Ready or Not is killer and she's even deadlier on the remix.



Fugees - Ready or Not par MyUoZiK


I’m still in desperate need of a classic hip hop album. I know she can do it again.

The Fugees - The Score

One day I was at a no-longer-existing store and saw a copy of The Score.

I bought it, brought it home and played it on my no-longer-existing AIWA stereo system.



I hadn't finished listening to it but made a conference call to some of my friends with the bewilderment of someone that didn't believe what he was doing.  I told them that The Fugees had created a classic album.

They did not believe me because they probably shared my opinion of pre-Score Fugees.

I think they changed their minds somewhere between the second or four million copies sold.