Track Listing

1. Introduction
2. Nappy Heads
3. Blunted Interlude
4. Recharge
5. Free Style Interlude
6. Vocab
7. Special New Bulletin Interlude
8. Boof Baf
9. Temple
10. How Hard Is It
11. Harlem Chit Chat Interlude
12. Some Seek Stardom
13. Giggles
14. Da Kid From Haiti Interlude
15. Refugees On The Mic
16. Living Like There Ain't No Tomorrow
17. Shouts Out From The Block

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #11587 in Music
• Released on: 1996-07-08
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.co.uk Review
It didn't come as any surprise to those who'd heard the Fugees' first album that the trio should've finally shot to world-wide fame on the back of Lauryn Hill's inspired cover of Roberta Flack's "Killing Me Softly" (from The Score). For their debut album, Blunted On Reality, is a microcosm of the previous 25 years of black music: from the dancehall rhythms of Jamaica, through the early 70s funk of Sly Stone and George Clinton, to the angry hip hop beats of America in the 1990s. On tracks like the biting "Nappy Heads" and "Recharge", Pras, Wyclef Jean and Hill proved that you didn't have to live up to some stereotype of gangsta rap to create music which is as powerful, chilling and relevant as any around. One to file alongside The Roots and The Goats' Tricks Of The Shade. -- Everett True

Customer Reviews

Typical Fugee magic
The debut album of Lauryn Hill, Wyclef Jean and Pras, on its release, proved to us all what a hit the band were going to be once they had taken off. Combining classic Jamaican dancehall music with incredible rap , Blunted on Reality is well worth buying. I personally enjoyed the album because of its huge variety of Fugee classics and, of course, the stunning vocals of the great Lauryn Hill. In my opinion, Blunted od Reality is the greatest thing to come out of the Carribean since Bob Marley!