‘I think it’s just time,’ Hill tells NPR about her possible return. By Mawuse Ziegbe Lauryn Hill Photo: Dimitrios Kambouris/ Getty Images Lauryn Hill made a huge impact on the music scene when she broke out from the Fugees and went solo with her acclaimed 1998 debut The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. Already a bona fide star with the New Jersey hip-hop trio, the husky-voiced rapper and singer launched into the pop culture stratosphere with Miseducation, which soared to the top of the charts. The album went on to score a record-setting five Grammy Awards , and Hill became one of the biggest artists in the world. Then, she basically vanished. She released MTV Unplugged No. 2.0 in 2002 , and the music world waited for Fugees reunion that never fully materialized. Aside from popping up on an occasional festival date or worrying fans with an eccentric performance , Hill was largely gone from the spotlight. The singer recently opened up to NPR about why she stopped releasing music, blaming both personal issues and her feelings about the music industry. “There were things about myself, personal-growth things, that I had to go through in order to feel like it was worth it,” Hill told NPR News.
