The night before Lauryn's recent release from prison, her camp posted a new song from the 'Killing Me Softly' diva. The track, titled Consumerism, has Ms Hill singing her views on socio-political and cultural paradigm. " Consumerism is part of some material I was trying to finish before I had to come in," she says in the accompanying letter.
Consumerism is the first taste of material from Lauryn Hill's forthcoming EP, Letters from Exhile.
“Consumerism is part of some material I was trying to finish before I had to come in. We did our best to eek out a mix via verbal and emailed direction, thanks to the crew of surrogate ears on the other side. Letters From Exile is material written from a certain space, in a certain place. I felt the need to discuss the underlying socio-political, cultural paradigm as I saw it. I haven’t been able to watch the news too much recently, so I’m not hip on everything going on. But inspiration of this sort is a kind of news in and of itself, and often times contains an urgency that precedes what happens. I couldn’t imagine it not being relevant. Messages like these I imagine find their audience, or their audience finds them, like water seeking it’s level.”
- Ms. Lauryn Hill
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