After her performance at the Los Angeles stop of the Rock the Bells music festival, Lauryn Hill sat down with Reebok for their Classic Albums by Classic Artists series. The musician/actress talked about her creative intentions for her classic 1998 album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. She also shared why she thinks her album went on to be one of the greatest albums of all time:
“I think that for me, I sort of acted as sort of a bridge between an older generation and a younger generation. And how to put these two musical styles [old school doo-wop & contemporary hip-hop/r&b] together, to build a continuum so there wasn’t so much of a disconnect between the generations. [...] 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. And I think it resonated and spoke or represented something for a generation of people who needed that at that time.”
In her issued statement, she addressed the rumors of Rohan Marley leaving her for a Brazilian model as well as the rumor of another man fathering her child:
