With inventive arrangements, engaging eccentricity and the emotional vocals of
Lauryn Hill, The Fugees did much to bring hip hop to the masses; making it
palatable to international audiences with distinctive hits like Fu-Gee La,
Killing Me Softly and Ready Or Not, and enhanced by a strikingly edgy image
inferring danger and a street ethos. Both Haitian Americans, rappers Wyclef Jean
and Pras Michel took the name Fugees as an abbreviation of "refugees" and linked
up with singer Lauryn Hill to bring an invigoratingly fresh and infectious
approach to hip hop. They released their fir...