Music: MTV2 Presents Unplugged 2.0: Lauryn Hill

"I used to be a performer," Hill says as she launches into two hours of long-awaited new material. "I really don't consider myself a performer so much anymore...

Music: Lauryn Hill: Unplugged And Unglued

Has Lauryn Hill lost it? Hill became an instant superstar with the release of The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill in 1998. She won five Grammys, including Album of...

Music: Songs In The Key Of Lauryn Hill

You're alone in a dark room with the Queen of Hip-Hop. Back up. Rewind. There was light when you arrived; when you got here it was still before nightfall, and...

Music: Neo-Soul On A Roll

In the wretched of the earth, Frantz Fanon's landmark work of revolutionary theory, the famed psychiatrist and social critic states that "the colonized man who...

Music: Hip-Hop Nation: Lauryn Hill

Strange that something so alive now could have begun in a museum. In late 1997, Lauryn Hill was visiting Detroit to produce a song that she wrote for her...

Couch Potato Briefing: Dictators, Delusions and Scary Animals

Global Spin's latest installment of five rental movies to watch over the weekend, pegged to the world's news. Presented by Ishaan Tharoor and Tony Karon.  Z The...

Liz Gets Girly

At 36, Liz Phair already knows three words that will appear at the top of her obituary: Exile in Guyville. The 1993 album was the definitive feminist- indie-rock...

Music: Deep in the Soul of Texas

Quitman, texas (pop. 2,000), is not listed in tourism brochures as the hip music capital of the Lone Star State. But it's doing its part. The tiny town is the...

Wyclef's World

Wyclef jean is supposed to be making like Sting today, but instead he's just making it up. Wyclef (he's primarily known by his first name) is sitting behind a...

Music: Wyclef's World

Wyclef Jean is supposed to be making like Sting today, but instead he's just making it up. Wyclef (he's primarily known by his first name) is sitting behind a...