Five time Grammy Award winner Lauryn Hill recently united with Reebok to share her experience in creating the R&B, Hip Hop, Soul, and Reggae infused masterpiece we know as The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. The three minute and eight second video is a part of Reebok’s “Classic Albums by CLASSIC ARTISTS” series and is presented by the sneaker shoe company in conjunction with Rock The Bells. A very serious Lauryn Hill adorned in an electric blue jacket maunders about how she didn’t know exactly how The Miseducation would impact people. “I think we understood it was going to be landmarked but, I don’t think I understood to what degree other people would really be deeply impacted by what was done,” she said.
Sitting on a deep brown couch surrounded by a white picket fence Hill continues to explain her thought process behind releasing her debut solo album. “The Miseducation was sort of like a play on low and high culture coming together. What I intended to get across was that there was sort of a learning process of understanding that came from an extremely non-traditional way. This album was going to be sort of an embodiment of those type of rules and lessons,” the Rock the Bells headliner explained.
Hill summed up the mini documentary by stating that The Miseducation came from a sincere place.“I think I made a piece of music from a sincere place and I think that sincerity has no choice but, to resonate with people...I think that my motives were probably in the right place at the right time. I think it resonated and spoke or represented something for a generation of people who needed that at that time or who wanted that at that time,” Hill said.
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 chart selling 424, 624 copies in its first week, upon release. The album broke a record for first week sales by a female artist. The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill received ten Grammy nominations at the 41st Grammy Awards, winning five. Hill was the first female recording artist to receive that number of nominations, as well as awards in one night. Three years past the album’s release in 1998 it was certified 8 times platinum in the United States. In September 2010 the album topped the seven million mark in the U.S.
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