It's an album that is best seen as novelty. And, unfortunately, as hard as the Fugees portray themselves here, it can't help but seem a little silly in retrospect. It's essentially the Fugees trying to earn respect in an era of gangstas, chronic, bitches, and guns by trying to come across as being hardcore. Please enable JavaScript in your browser to use the site fully. If you keep this context in mind, it's a little easier to understand why Blunted on Reality sounds nothing like The Score. Find album reviews, songs, credits and award information for The Score by Fugees on AllMusic - 1996 - A breath of fresh air in the gangsta-dominated.
Dre's The Chronic was ubiquitous with not only its reach but also its influence, and Death Row was literally changing the game. If you think back, you'll probably remember 1993 as being the pinnacle of gangsta rap - Dr. In that sense, it comes across as a bit derived and undoubtedly confined by its stifled creative ambitions. The Score was released worldwide on February 13, 1996, on Columbia Records.The album features a wide range of samples and instrumentation, with many aspects of alternative hip-hop that would come to dominate the hip-hop music scene in the mid-late 1990s. However, rather than use rap as a starting point and depart from there into a myriad of other directions as they did on The Score, they used rap as a starting point and never depart, instead emulating the popular style of the era. The Score is the second and final studio album by the hip hop trio Fugees. Here they offer their take on rap circa 1993. Yes, Blunted features Wyclef, Lauryn Hill, and Pras, but it's not quite the same trio that fans of The Score have come to know. Track 15 title is incorrectly mentioned on the back cover as 'Fu-Gee-La (Refugee Camp Global Mix)'. Those fans no doubt were a little shocked, though, by what they found. Main artist appears as 'Fugees (Refugee Camp)' on the CD inlay.
Given the brilliance of The Score and the shortage of Fugees albums in the '90s, many fans probably sought out Blunted on Reality.
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