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AND SHE WAS CRYING.
I GUESS SHE WAS CRYING BECAUSE, THE ARGUMENT, AND HER LEAVING THE GROUP
BUT AT THE SAME TIME, WANTED THE WORLD TO KNOW, READY OR NOT, HERE COMES THE FUGEES
BRINGING IT TO YOU, YOU KNOW, BUT AT THE SAME TIME, SHE'S ANGRY, AND HURT, SAD.
Hill: ♪ YOU CAN'T HIDE ♪
♪ I'M GONNA FIND YOU ♪
♪ AND TAKE IT SLOWLY ♪
♪ READY OR NOT, HERE I COME ♪
♪ YOU CAN'T HIDE ♪
♪ GONNA FIND YOU ♪
[SIREN BLARING]
WE DID A SOUNDTRACK FOR A MOVIE CALLED "LOVE JONES"
SO I WENT TO LAURYN AND ASKED LAURYN.
I'M LIKE, OK, I NEED YOU TO DO, YOU KNOW, I WANT TO DO A RECORD ON YOU
AND LAURYN SAID, "OK, WELL, YOU KNOW WHAT?
I GOT ONE SONG.
THAT SONG WAS CALLED 'THE SWEETEST THING.'"
Hill: ♪ THE SWEETEST THING I'VE EVER KNOWN ♪
♪ WAS LIKE THE KISS ON A COLLAR BONE ♪
♪ SOFT CARESS OF HAPPINESS ♪
♪ THE WAY YOU WALK ♪
Man: THERE WERE CERTAIN PEOPLE AT SONY
THERE WERE CERTAIN PEOPLE IN HER MANAGEMENT TEAM AT THE TIME
THAT WASN'T WITH THE IDEA OF HER DOING THAT SONG.
Hill: ♪ BABY, JUST TO HEAR YOU SPEAK ♪
HER THING WAS
"IF THAT RECORD CANNOT BE PUT OUT, IF NOBODY WANTS TO PUT OUT THAT RECORD
AND SUPPORT IT, THEN THEY ALL CAN FORGET ABOUT ME MAKING A SOLO RECORD."
THAT RECORD CAME OUT ON THAT ALBUM, AND PEOPLE LOST THEIR MINDS.
THE HIP-HOP CROWD, PEOPLE IN THE STREET
JUST THE FACT THAT LAURYN HILL IS NOW DOING WHAT THEY THOUGHT SHE COULD DO
STILL BRIDGING THAT GAP BETWEEN HIP-HOP AND R&B, SO EVERYONE KNEW
THAT HAD HEARD "SWEETEST THING," "OH MY GOD, WHEN LAURYN HILL COMES OUT WITH HER ALBUM
I CAN'T IMAGINE WHAT IT'S GONNA BE."
AND SHE DID IT.
Hill: ♪ GIRLS, YOU KNOW YOU'D BETTER WATCH OUT ♪
♪ SOME GUYS, SOME GUYS ARE ONLY ABOUT ♪
♪ THAT THING, THAT THING, THAT THING ♪
♪ THAT THING, THAT THING... ♪
Woman: LAURYN HILL WAS REALLY BRILLIANT
IN BRINGING TOGETHER BOTH THE PERSONAL AND THE POLITICAL.
GIVEN WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT HER RELATIONSHIP WITH WYCLEF JEAN NOW