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Title: Overrated
Review: For reference, I have been following Lauryn since I first peeped "Vocab" back on the Fugees' first album.As for now, it's years later, and she drops two deadweights and goes out on her own. I find the album is immediately likable, but only two of her songs can withstand repeated listenings. As a hip-hop junkie, I still like the first track, filled with clever (albeit a bit soft) battle rhymes. And as a hip-hop junkie, that's all I like. The rest is a bad mix of hip-hop and R&B, which seem to be mixed just for the sake of mixing hip-hop and R&B. The results are songs like Ex-Factor, an otherwise perfectly lovely song if it were not for the ultra annoying "yo yo yo yo yo" background Lauryn insists on putting in.Oh well. I was looking forward for Lauryn to blaze the trail for the new generation of female hip-hoppers. Now instead of creating an exquisite hip-hop album, she made a sophmoric R&B album that is embraced by pop fans one month and totally forgotten the next.
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