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Lauryn Hill: Theatre at Madison Square Garden, NY

Barney Hoskyns, MOJO, June 1999

DID SOMEONE say breakout hit? Anyone who doubts the massive crossover impact of The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill need only cast an eye across the audience gathered for Hill’s big homecoming show – a crowd teeming with white suburban kids in Nautica sweatshirts, shrieking as Puff Daddy wades to his seat through a sea of outstretched palms.

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