Pitchblack Playback: Fugees "The Score" 30th Anniversary [UPSTAIRS]
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About This Event
Pitchblack Playback presents an upstairs session at Public Records revisiting the Fugees' The Score. The group's recorded legacy sits at the crossroads of hip-hop, soul and sample-based production, built on tight vocal interplay and collage-like arrangements that reward close attention. In this listening-room format the album is treated as material for focused playback, favoring narrative pacing and texture over spectacle.
About The Score
The Score is the second and final studio album by American hip-hop group Fugees, released worldwide on February 13, 1996, by Columbia Records. The album features a wide range of samples and instrumentation, with many aspects of alternative hip-hop that would come to dominate the hip-hop music scene in the mid- to late-1990s. Primarily, The Score's production was handled by the Fugees themselves, Jerry Duplessis and Warren Riker, with additional production from Salaam Remi, John Forté, Diamond D, and Shawn King. The album's guest verses are from Outsidaz members Rah Digga, Young Zee, and Pacewon, as well as John Forté, and Diamond D. Most versions of the album feature four bonus tracks, including three remixes of "Fu-Gee-La", and a short acoustic Wyclef Jean solo track entitled "Mista Mista".
About the Artist
Fugees
Fugees are a group whose recorded legacy sits at the crossroads of hip-hop, soul, and sample-based production, often reframed in electronic listening contexts. Their work is built on tight vocal interplay and collage-like arrangements that reward close attention to detail.