Can We Trust A Lauryn Hill Live Performance?

If you loved hip hop and R&B in the mid-to-late 1990s, you almost certainly owned one of Lauryn Hill’s CDs.

Together with Wyclef and Pras, Lauryn Hill and The Fugees released the classic, “The Score,” in 1996, an album eventually certified six times platinum.

Shortly after that huge success, the group broke up and she went solo. She then released the critically acclaimed “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill,” which sold more than 8 million units.

Then as all her fans know, she took a break. She had a notorious relationship with Rohan Marley.  and she didn’t start performing live again until 2010. Ever since, she has played various small and medium sized gigs.

So do we trust seeing her now? Over the last six years, she has developed a deserved reputation of being tardy, as frequently her shows have started hours late.  She has ditched gigs altogether, like she did overseas. Also apparently, if you are looking to hear all your favorite hits from the 1990s, you may come away disappointed. Last year, her “Small Axe” tour was an lineup of intimate acoustic performance, which included a mixed bag of songs not always from her list of greatest hits.

Still, there are signs her voice is strong and fellow artist Talib Kweli argues Ms. Hill doesn’t owe fans anything like her early work if that is not what she is feeling.

So as her 2016 tour rolls into Long Island and North Jersey this coming March, you have a choice:

1). You can buy tickets for the Ms. Lauryn Hill of today, for what it is.

2). You can keep on enjoyin’ the 90s version of Hill’s work in your iTunes or Spotify.

Whatever works for you.

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