Lauryn Hill is opening up again about her artistic silence.

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The iconic singer responded to a post from the social media platform FRAIM World.

The post listed potential reasons she never released a follow-up to The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, her 1998 debut.

Hill first wrote “I disagree” before offering a lengthy explanation. Taking to Instagram, the Fugees frontwoman wrote:

“When you’re inspired and desire to be principled, what doesn’t get talked about enough is the drain… nor the challenge to find safety so that you can create with integrity.”

Continuing, she added:

“Most see opportunity as dollars only and often exclude the ‘sense.’ The Score nor the Miseducation were made because we were ‘allowed’ to represent what we did, we fought for every inch. Wild success can cause greed that begins to degenerate the art for the money. We’re people living through all this.”

Hill also called herself a “Harriet Tubman figure,” stating she was “running to speak the difficult truth to power before certain forces tried to close those doors.”

She further questioned:

“If it was so easy to do, where is that expression now on the world stage? Systems fear what they can’t control. Creativity is most potent when it’s free. If I did nothing else, I introduced standards and possibilities to a generation that didn’t know they could operate on that level before then.”

In a 2021 interview with Rolling Stone, Hill said no one from her label ever called to ask how they could help her make another album. “Ever! Ever!” she emphasized.

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