The Fugees played their first show in 15 years in New York last night. “Respect the miracle of this union,” Ms. Lauryn Hill reminded the audience during the knockout reunion set. “Respect that we can get on this stage and still do this.”
Three hours after fans began loading in for the event, the crowd was still being kept busy by Hill’s longtime tour companion DJ Reborn, their energy increasingly zapped with each passing song. Tickets for the free show pledged a 7 p.m. start time that soon shifted to an 8:30 p.m. start for the DJ and a nearly 10 p.m. start for the Fugees. The tardiness was owed in part to a delayed soundcheck that pushed back the entry time half an hour.
Halfway through the set, Jean praised a freestyle Hill had uploaded to Instagram weeks ago before delving into his own. The topic of the rapper’s home country of Haiti took precedence over the few other topics slotted into his solo performance. “President Biden, I want you to do me a favor,” he slowed down to speak at one point, pushing for the reversal of the administration’s immigration policy blocking Haitian asylum seekers.
The group placed their true hits on the latter half of the set, stacking “Killing Me Softly With His Song” against “Ready or Not” at the discretion of Hill, who declined to perform a freestyle of her own in favor of reminiscing about the past 25 years of the Fugees. “I had to take a hiatus,” she said, recalling having been on the road since the age of 18 and in the studio years before that. “I had to experience the youth I missed.
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