Word: soloing
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...women's ability to cut deep that they've been called both "evil, emasculating harpies" (USA Today) and male fantasies. Sex is fantasy, but not that kind. The high-powered Sexettes can afford Manolo Blahnik shoes, Le Bernardin dinners and swank Manhattan apartments. Their charmed circumstances would sweeten the solo life for a man or a woman...
With the Fugees, whose 1996 record The Score sold more than 5 million copies, on indefinite hiatus, Wyclef has ventured out on his own. His 1997 solo debut, The Carnival, sold almost 2 million copies. Now his new CD, The Ecleftic--2 Sides II a Book (Columbia), is garnering some of the best reviews of any rap release this year. Rolling Stone called it "the most pleasingly direct yet musically adventurous hip-hop long-player you're likely to hear all year." The hip-hop magazine Source gave it 4 1/2 microphones out of 5--half a mike more than...
There have been reports of tension among the Fugees after the critical and commercial success of Hill's 1998 solo album, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. So will the Fugees ever record another album? "People welcome you into Jerusalem to crucify you," says Wyclef. "If we just go into the studio and the s___ is garbage, the same people [calling for a reunion] will be, like, 'This is garbage. They should have just kept doing what they were doing.'" But Wyclef's cousin Duplessis predicts the Fugees will get together again because "everyone will get a big check...
Typically, when band members release solo albums, one individual reveals himself to be the Simon of the group, and the others are uncovered as mere Garfunkels. When the Police broke up, Sting turned out to be a Simon; Andy Summers was a Garfunkel. So far, both Wyclef and Hill have turned out to be Simons, and Wyclef's new CD only further confirms his Simonhood. Why should Wyclef let the pressure to reunite get to him? He's duetting with Mary J.; he's got half a mike on Eminem; and he's following in the footsteps of his idol...
Swimming is a solo sport. Sure, there are relay teams, but the glory is in personal triumph, as in the indelible image of all those gold medals dangling from Mark Spitz's neck...