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I'm making music for other people to listen to for pleasure. And hopefully, later on maybe they'll listen to it and go, That bass line, boy, did you hear the way those drums interacted with that?

Lauryn Hill

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Lauryn Hill
Age: 49
Born: 1975
Born: May 26
Actor
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Rapper
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Singer
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East Orange
New Jersey
Lauryn Noelle Hill
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In my family, there was not an abundance of wealth, but there was an abundance of love. So there was always humor, and there was joy and there was comfort and there was this environment just to have a good time.
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God surrounded me with the right team, with the team that I needed to help me exercise all of my ideas. You need that. You need that army, you need that force.
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