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The Score (Music)

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The Score is the second and final album by the American hip hop group The Fugees. It was released in 1996 as the Surprisingly Improved Sequel to their poorly received debut album Blunted on Reality, which was even dismissed by themselves because of Executive Meddling. The record also jump-started Alternative Hiphop into the mainstream, producing hits such as "Ready or Not", "Killing Me Softly" and "Fu-Gee-La".
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Fugitive Arc
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Fugitive Arc: All throughout the album.
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Face on the Cover
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Face on the Cover and Face Framed in Shadow: The band on the album cover, shown against a black background.
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Crapsack World
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Crapsack World: All of the lyrics address the poor state the world is in.
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As the Good Book Says...
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As the Good Book Says...: Quite some lyrics refer to it, most notably "Manifest", where Wyclef Jean imagines himself waking up in the presence of Jesus Christ and Haile Selassie. The same song makes references to the Last Supper, Judas' betrayal of Jesus and Gethsemane.
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Hurricane of Puns
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Hurricane of Puns: "How Many Mics" "The Beast" "Fugee-La-La" "The Mask"
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Bilingual Bonus
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Bilingual Bonus: One of the remixes of "Fu-Gee-La"has lines sang in Gratuitous French. "Au contraire mon frère" in "How Many Mics" . "With my crew from lakay" in "Ready Or Not" references the Haitian creole word "Lakay" for "home" .
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Properly Paranoid
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Properly Paranoid: "How Many Mics:"
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Spelling Song
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Spelling Song: "The Mask"
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Sleep-Mode Size
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Sleep-Mode Size: "Ready Or Not": "Family Business" also evokes being awake and asleep at the same time in a nightmare:
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Cool People Rebel Against Authority
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Cool People Rebel Against Authority: Subverted in "The Beast"
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Stock Sound Effects
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Stock Sound Effects: Intentional scratchy LP record sounds can be heard between tracks.
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Wham Line
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Wham Line: "Zealots": "The Mask":
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Beneath the Mask
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Beneath the Mask: "The Mask".
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Sampling
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Sampling: A lot of the tracks have samples in them. "How Many Mics" samples "Twilight Time" by The Moody Blues and "Sunglasses At Night" by Corey Hart. "Zealots" samples "I Only Have Eyes For You" by the doowop group The Flamingos. "Ready Or Not" contains a sample from "Boadicea" by Enya. Since she didn't give them permission she was planning to sue them, but dropped the lawsuit after being reassured that they weren't a Gangsta Rap group. "Fu-Gee-La" samples "Ooo La La La" by Teena Marie and "(If Loving You Is Wrong) I Don't Want To Be Right" by Ramsey Lewis. "The Mask" samples "Nights In White Satin" by The Moody Blues. "Cowboys" samples "Something 'bout Love" by The Main Ingredient and "Cowboys To Girls" by The Intruders. "Manifest" samples "Ain't No Half-Steppin'" by Big Daddy Kane and "Rock Dis Funky Joint" by Poor Righteous Teachers.
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Album Intro Track
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Album Intro Track:
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Mistaken for Gay
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Mistaken for Gay: The Chinese restaurant owner in the sketch before "Fu-Gee-La" assumes his two clients are "bitchass niggers".
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Evil Laugh
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Evil Laugh: Lauren in "Fu-Gee-La".
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Police Brutality
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Police Brutality: Addressed in "The Beast" .
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Large Ham
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Large Ham: Wyclef Jean in "Mista, Mista" is Chewing the Scenery beyond the ridiculous.
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Boyfriend Bluff
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Boyfriend Bluff: A small skit before "The Mask" has a guy claiming he fucked a certain woman named Michelle. He specifies it was indeed "Michelle Leslie Brown from 253 street that played ball in the park." The others are amazed, but when Michelle is brought along to confirm this Badass Boast it turns out that she has no idea what he's talking about and is even rather disgusted by the whole idea. The guy tries to bullshit himself out of the situation by saying he actually went to bed with "another Michelle Leslie Brown from 253 street that played ball in the park."
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Spoken Word in Music
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Spoken Word in Music: The interludes between songs are sketches and skits.
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Saying Sound Effects Out Loud
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Saying Sound Effects Out Loud: The fight in the skit before "Fu-Gee-La" has rather unconvincing first fights, clearly just vocally imitated by the Chinese restaurant owner.
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Excrement Statement
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Excrement Statement: "Ready Or Not"
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Questioning Title?
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Questioning Title?: "How Many Mics?"
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The Gunslinger
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The Gunslinger: Comparing gang members with gun-toting cowboys is a theme throughout the entire album, most notably "Cowboys".
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Loudness War
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Loudness War: The skit before "Killing Me Softly" has the sound boy testing the sound, but it's too loud, causing Lauryn to sing: "Killing a sound boy with this sound" .
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Take That!
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Take That!: "How Many Mics", a take that towards bad hiphop artists who "sold your soul from some secular muzak that's wack" . "The Beast":
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Precision F-Strike
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Precision F-Strike: All throughout the album.
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Shout-Out
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Shout-Out: "Red Intro": "How Many Mics": Lauryn sings: "How Many Mics": Clef sings: "How Many Mics": Pras sings: "Ready Or Not" references the hide-and-seek game, Sleepwalkers (in which the Enya song sampled in this Fugees song was used earlier), "If I Could Rule The World" (a song by Nas and Lauryn Hill), Goretex, the Manifest Destiny, "She's Homeless" by Crystal Waters, Porgy and Bess, Elliot Ness, Al Capone, Nina Simone (who also recorded a cover of "I Loves You Porgy" from Porgy and Bess ), Bob Marley's "Buffalo Soldier" , Superfly, True Lies, Guantanamo Bay and Cassius Clay. "Zealots" references Willie Williams' "Armageddon Time" , Jesus Christ, Mephistopheles, the sword of Damocles, John F. Kennedy, "Somebody's Watching Me" by Rockwell, "Sweet Dreams" by Music/Eurythmics, "Black Magic Woman" from Abraxas by Carlos Santana, Last Tango in Paris, Menudo, "Word Up" by Cameo, I'm Gonna Git You Sucka, rap DBX, Ampex 456, Little Shop of Horrors, The Phantom of the Opera, Benito Mussolini. "The Beast" references Newt Gingrich, the Star Wars defense system, Chewbacca, Trisha Meili (in the line "Yesterday In The Central Park they got the jogger", about a woman who was assaulted and raped in Central Park. Five Afro-American men were convicted, but later turned out to be innocent), ghetto Gotham, Bill Clinton, "Fire Water Burn" by The Bloodhound Gang, journalist Connie Chung, Satan, Jah, Mother Mary, Rodney King, Fort Alcatraz, al Hajj Malik Shabazz, Peter Tosh, Bob Marley, The Star Spangled Banner, "Concrete Jungle" by Bob Marley, basketball player Mutumbo, Hannibal, Dr. Kimble The restaurant owner in the skit before "Fu-Gee-La" starts is humming "You're Not Alone" by Michael Jackson. "Fu-Gee-La" references Charmin' (a product endorsed by advertising character Mr. Whipple who got mad when people squeezed it), Chicken George, dead pigeons (a reference to maffia murders, where they leave corpses of these dead birds on the scene), Blacula, Stevie Wonder, Armageddon, Babylon, Mount Zion, Gucci, Lucci, Mitsubishi, "Say Say Say" by Paul Mccartney, Cooley High, Superfly, "Champion" by Buju Banton, Louis Farrakhan and What's Going On?. "Family Business" references Nostradamus, "Iron, Lion Zion" and "Who The Cap Fit?" by Bob Marley, Jezebel, Alex Haley, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, "Fire and Rain" by James Taylor, judge Lance Ito and "Murder She Wrote" by Chaka Demus and Pliers. "The Score" references "My Melody" from Paid in Full by Eric B & Rakim, "Time After Time" by Cyndi Lauper and Lee Van Cleef "The Mask" references Biggie Smalls. "Cowboys" references Plug 2 (aka the nickname of Trugoy the Dove of De La Soul), How the West Was Won , Jesse James, Sheena Easton, The Fall Guy, The Mask with Jim Carrey, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Harlem Nights, Blazing Saddles, "Ice Cream" by Raekwon, the NAACP, "The Gambler" by Kenny Rogers, "Soul Makossa" by Manu Dibango (or "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'" by Michael Jackson), "I Shot The Sherrif" by Bob Marley, John Wayne, Shane, Zsa Zsa Gabor and "Danger" by Blahzay-blah (which has the line "when the east is in the house" ) "Manifest" references "Breathe Again" by Toni Braxton and reggae artist Capleton. The typography on the album cover references The Godfather .
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Cover Version
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Cover Version: "Killing Me Softly" (a Roberta Flack cover) and "No Woman, No Cry" (a Bob Marley cover).
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One-Word Title
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One-Word Title: "Zealots", "Cowboys".
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Album Title Drop
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Album Title Drop: Throughout the intro.
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Album Filler
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Album Filler: The album has some filler moments after each song, most of it in the form of comedic sketches. "Fu-Gee-La" has a few unnecessary throwaway remixes near the end of the album. These were not included on cassette and vinyl formats.
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Drugs Are Bad
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Drugs Are Bad: A bit ambiguous. References to marihuana and being high can be found all throughout the album (even subliminally in "No Woman, No Cry" where the refrain "Oo aah" suddenly becomes "Oo aah/ I'm high" ), but the track "Mista Mista" criticizes a poor beggar for asking for money, because he will use it to buy drugs anyway.
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Grief Song
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Grief Song: "Killing Me Softly", "No Woman, No Cry".
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Let's Get Out of Here
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Let's Get Out of Here: The skit before "The Beast" has the band members running away.
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Diner Brawl
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Diner Brawl: In a skit before "Fu-Gee-La" a Chinese restaurant owner starts a fight with two men whom he suspects to be "bitch-ass niggers".
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Fading into the Next Song
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Fading into the Next Song: "Red Intro" —> "How Many Mics" —> "Ready or Not"
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Answer Cut
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Answer Cut:
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