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The Score is the second and final studio album by the hip hop trio Fugees, released worldwide 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.

Angus Batey reappraises The Fugees' much maligned debut album 'Blunted On Reality', 25 years on. If they were giving out awards, no-one would be able to accurately predict the winner of the category: but the Fugees would be in with a shout of being the most widely and comprehensively misunderstood band in the history of popular music.

The Fugees’ first album, 1994's Blunted on Reality, didn’t really make much of an impact on the charts when it was released. But it was the follow-up, The Score (1996), that turned everything upside down. It went to number one on the Billboard album chart and eventually sold six million copies in the . Schwartz admits he had no inkling that The Score would take off the way it did at the time. I was hoping if we got a gold record, that means we made a nice chunk of change and move on and keep going. One of the surprising revelations in the memoir was when Schwartz got a surprise phone call in the middle of the night from Sony Music executives Don Ienner and Tommy Mottola while he and his wife were staying in the . The conversation concerned the upcoming release of Fugees member Lauryn Hill's 1998 solo debut album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.

Unsurprisingly, most of the appeal in the disc is in its picks from the five-star mainstream breakthrough The Score (1996); almost half of that album, including "Fu-Gee-La," "Ready or Not," and "Killing Me Softly with His Song" is featured. Three tracks from Blunted on Reality (1994) and two tracks from Bootleg Versions (1996), all reasonable picks, are also here, along with a pair of surprises: the "Good Times"-swiping remix of the debut's "Refugees on the Mic," and the Michael Jackson-swiping digital single "Wanna Be" (2006).

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7 The Fugees featuring A Tribe Called Quest, Busta Rhymes and John Forte: Rumble in the Jungle. The final act of the incredible run of 1996 releases came with this contribution to Leon Gast’s Oscar-winning documentary When We Were Kings, about the Muhammad Ali v George Foreman fight in Zaire. The track - produced by Clef and Hill – manages to make something portentous and eerie out of a loop from Abba’s cautiously optimistic The Name of the Game, and an all-star cast of guest emcees praise Ali and what he had come to represent. The best track on the album is Everything Is Everything – incidentally, the first appearance on record of John Legend (who played piano on the track). Somehow, Hill wrote and delivered something that lives up to that most expansive of titles.