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"Lost Ones" is a diss song by American rapper and singer-songwriter Lauryn Hill. It was released on August 25, 1998, through Ruffhouse and Columbia Records. The song was written by Hill and produced by Hill, alongside Vada Nobles and Che Pope. It features an interpolation of "Bam Bam" by Sister Nancy. [1]
Released on August 25, 1998, Hill's debut album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill sold over 423,000 copies in its first week (boosted by advance radio play of two non-label-sanctioned singles, "Lost Ones" and "Can't Take My Eyes Off You") [1] and topped the US Billboard 200 for four weeks and the US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums for six weeks.
[152] According to celebrity hairstylist Yusef Williams, who styled Rihanna's hair on the set of Ocean's 8, the singer "channeled her inner Lauryn Hill" while wearing locs for her role in the movie. [153] Halle Bailey named Hill as one of her beauty icons, while mentioning "I love Lauryn Hill's hair". [154] In 1999, Hill partnered with Levi ...
This article originally appeared in the January 1999 issue of SPIN. In light of the Fugees reuniting, we're republishing it here. A baby-on-board Lauryn Hill is feeling "fat and bothered," hanging ...
Along with playing the finest moments of her genre-jumbling, 20-million-selling “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill” (still her only solo studio album), the singer has thrilled audiences with a ...
Lauryn Hill is set to reunite with The Fugees to celebrate the 25th anniversary of her smash 1998 debut solo album “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill” with an international tour.
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill remains the only rap album by a woman to spend over one week at number one, and one of the longest-running number-one rap albums ever on the Billboard 200. [255] In 2021, the album was certified diamond by the RIAA, denoting album-equivalent units of 10 million in the US; [ 256 ] Hill thus became the first female ...
The hip hop and R&B song is a warning from Lauryn Hill to African-American men and women caught in "the struggle". Both the women who "[try to] be a hard rock when they really are a gem", and the men who are "more concerned with his rims, and his Timbs, than his women", are admonished by Hill, who warns them not to allow "that thing" to ruin their lives.