Followers on the Roots Picnic this weekend received an enormous shock throughout Lauryn Hill‘s headlining set on Saturday (June 3) when the singer introduced out her former Fugees bandmates Wyclef Jean and Pras Michel for a shock reunion of the beloved Nineteen Nineties hip-hop energy trio. It was undoubtedly a second to savor, as there’s likelihood it is likely to be the primary, and final, time the group will seem on stage for the foreseeable future in gentle of Pras’ indictment in April in a long-running marketing campaign finance case.
All that mattered in Philly on Saturday, although, was that the lads took the stage with Hill on the finish of her set to carry out a six-song run of classics after Hill celebrated the twenty fifth anniversary of her debut solo album, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. “We’re out right here doing 25 years of Miseducation,” Hill informed the gang about her Grammy-winning 1998 solo bow, in accordance with the Philadelphia Inquirer. “However there’s one other 25 years we didn’t do a few years in the past due to COVID.”
The latter was a reference to a scotched reunion tour the trio had deliberate to have a good time the 25-year mark of their 1996 album The Rating, which was first postponed, then canceled, citing issues from the COVID-19 pandemic after only one gig. Then, when Michel was discovered responsible in April on 10 prison counts in a federal conspiracy trial associated to an alleged wide-ranging international affect marketing campaign scheme that would maintain him behind bars for greater than 20 years when he’s sentenced, any likelihood of a re-reboot turned unlikely.
So, on Saturday they did the perfect they might by working by “The Rating,” then “How Many Mics,” “Zealots,” “Prepared or Not,” “Killing Me Softly” and “Fu-Gee-La.” The gang response was reportedly electrical for the primary present because the Fugees reunited for the primary time in 16 years throughout a gig in New York in 2021, with Hill repeatedly referring to her previously estranged bandmates as her “brothers.”
Take a look at footage from the reunion beneath.
