Lauryn Hill

it's really difficult for me to have any hard feelings against her because i listened to "ms hill" by talib so many times before i heard anything negative and i'd rather believe his take

tho watching her on fallon right now and, having no other performances to compare her too, she pretty out of it and spastic

*she seems

What an entitled jerk she is:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/08/lauryn-hill-responds-nj-tax-evasion-charges_n_1582464.html

Lauryn Hill Responds To Tax Evasion Charges

06/08/12 08:05 PM ET AP

NEWARK, N.J. — Reclusive singer Lauryn Hill said in an Internet posting Friday that she hasn't paid taxes since she withdrew from society to guarantee the safety and well-being of herself and her family.

The eight-time Grammy Award winner and South Orange, N.J., resident was charged this week with willfully failing to file income tax returns with the Internal Revenue Service. Federal prosecutors said she didn't pay taxes on more than $1.5 million earned in 2005, 2006 and 2007 from recording and film royalties.

Hill responded to the federal charges in a lengthy post on her Tumblr page Friday. She described how she has rejected pop culture's "climate of hostility, false entitlement, manipulation, racial prejudice, sexism and ageism."

"Over-commercialization and its resulting restrictions and limitations can be very damaging and distorting to the inherent nature of the individual," Hill wrote. "I did not deliberately abandon my fans, nor did I deliberately abandon any responsibilities, but I did however put my safety, health and freedom and the freedom, safety and health of my family first over all other material concerns! I also embraced my right to resist a system intentionally opposing my right to whole and integral survival."

She said in her online post that she explained herself to authorities when she was questioned by authorities about her failure to pay taxes.

"My intention has always been to get this situation rectified. When I was working consistently without being affected by the interferences mentioned above, I filed and paid my taxes," she wrote. "This only stopped when it was necessary to withdraw from society, in order to guarantee the safety and well-being of myself and my family."

A spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney's Office for New Jersey, which filed the tax charges, said in response to Hill's posting Friday that they could not speak to the specifics of the investigation.

The 37-year-old Hill got her start with the Haitian-American hip-hop band the Fugees. She began her solo career in 1998 with the critically acclaimed album "The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill."

Ugh.

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Wednesday, June 15, 2005 10:22 AM (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

here's to another seven years of calling black women crazy!

Wonder if she's a Rangers fan

here's to another seven years of calling black women crazy!

compare & contrast the erykah badu thread

well, no contrasting necessary i guess

azealia banks gonna be a crrrazy bitch in 2019

Matt P described how he has rejected ILM's "climate of hostility, false entitlement, manipulation, racial prejudice, sexism and ageism."

this is a stupid thing to fuck around with. would be sad if she ends up in jail.

she'll be straight, the IRS is usually pretty understanding if you say "I had my reasons"

Hill responded to the federal charges in a lengthy post on her Tumblr page

I understand the desire to object to the existence of this thread but Lauryn Hill is actually crazy.

saddest/truest line comes from that NYT article upthread:

"a performer who, for more than a decade, has been chasing a muse that has led her in almost every direction but forward"

nypost commenters are strangely unforgiving of a black woman going galt

equal opportunity galtism ftw

A spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney's Office for New Jersey, which filed the tax charges, said in response to Hill's posting Friday that they could not speak to the specifics of the investigation "that's all well and good, but girlfriend still needs to pay her taxes."

she is obviously crazy but it's hard to generate much sympathy for her since the particular form in which that craziness expresses itself is megalomania.

Wonder if she's a Rangers fan

― it looks like something rupert the bear would wear (Algerian Goalkeeper), Monday, 11 June 2012 17:20 (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol

Looks like she's facing jail.

Career jail.

I should distinguish, Badu is "crazy," but not crazy. She's eccentric, erratic, quirky, unpredictable, and a little conspiracy prone, but not crazy. Lauryn Hill, on the other hand, by all indications there could be something really wrong with her.

Also

here's to another seven years of calling black women crazy!

LOL. yeah, Badu and Hill ... that pretty much covers it! Let me know when you find another one.

no uh... actual jail

she'll be straight, the IRS is usually pretty understanding if you say "I had my reasons"
― shipl.de.al (some dude), Monday, June 11, 2012 5:39 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Tell that to Wesley Snipes!

Quite a mugshot.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/buster/lauryn-hill-mug-shot-563419

good look!

wow so "crazy"

she looks like a mean school guidance counselor who would criticize me for having bad handwriting

Yeah, I feel very judged by her.

and here i was, hoping i could judge her!

capn save-a-hill

I MEAAAAN SHE LOOKS LIKE A CRAZY MEAN BITCH

partly cloudy, 30% chance of clusterfuck

T/S: making fun of celebrities vs. feeling protective of celebrities

vs. saying a well-dressed woman in her mugshot is a superego extension of your prep school experience

isn't everything?

no

note to borads:

your posts are incoherent no matter the length.

fuck off, matt. there's no need for this kind of garbage.

goddam asswart of a human being

Weird how her mugshot is the most "together" she's looked in years.

lol "prep school" -- you're way off the mark pal but OOH BURN

what is a "prep school" anyway? just a private school? or do you have to live there for it to be a prep school? like brenden frasier in school ties?

you meant "perp school," which trains you to be a felon like Ms. Hill.

you are about to witness the strength of street knowledge

brb

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBBxFKCAaCo

Production is a nightmare, was feeling the rhymes even if they're hella paranoid

something tells me hip-hop is about to get its chinese democracy

Sounds like it should be on the new Killah Priest album.