When Lauryn Hill came up, she was quite the anomaly. She could spit like the best of them and had the vocal chops of an R&B angel. Her lyrics were as much poetry as they were social commentaries, and rather than slump into the predictable, hardcore hip hop direction of the femcees during mid to late 1990s, she stood out by ushering in positivity and building bridges with words. This uniqueness of hers would culminate to her solo masterpiece, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. That was 1998, and since her solo debut, she staged a mysterious exit from music, an absence that is almost 13 years in length.
