The future of HBO Max’s European originals team has appeared bleak ever since it emerged Warner Bros Discovery was stopping production in the continent, and it now looks to be facing the end.
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Wyclef Jean has compared the Fugees to The Grateful Dead after confirming the group would be rescheduling their reunion tour.The hugely influential hip-hop group – Ms. Lauryn Hill, Wyclef Jean and Pras Michel – announced in September 2021 that they would reunite for a 2021 world tour celebrating 25 years of their classic 1996 album ‘The Score’.Unfortunately, they were forced to postpone the dates and eventually cancelled them altogether due to varying COVID restrictions in the cities they were set to play.Speaking to HipHopDX about the rescheduled dates, he said: “All I could do is tell you that with the Fugees, I’m very excited and I look forward to it getting rescheduled.
I look forward. As a fan of the Fugees, I’m very excited.
All I could do is just tell all the fans, do not lose hope, because y’all know we the Hip Hop Grateful Dead. We going to get this thing cracking [laughs].”Elsewhere in the interview, he discussed his next solo album ‘2097’, which would be his first full-length since 2019’s ‘Wyclef Goes Back to School Volume 1’.“The new album is going to be called 2097, and in the next couple of weeks, we’ll be putting out the first single from 2097,” he said.
“I need y’all to go back with me. Go to ‘AfriCali.’ I need y’all to Google, go back to 1990.”That moment when @MsLaurynHill showed up as my surprise guest last night @essencefest – This is what it sounds like when a true G.O.A.T enters the arena! #essencefest #thecarnival pic.twitter.com/INMhgTm5HP— Wyclef Jean (@wyclef) July 3, 2022He continued: “This is four years before the Fugees, so the first song I ever put out were the house music records.
The future of HBO Max’s European originals team has appeared bleak ever since it emerged Warner Bros Discovery was stopping production in the continent, and it now looks to be facing the end.
Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentRupert Everett and Malcom McDowell have joined the cast of Amazon heist series “Everybody Loves Diamonds,” being produced as an original in Italy, where the streamer on Tuesday also revealed a slew of unscripted local shows now on its Italian slate.Amazon’s previously announced high-end show follows a group of thieves led by Sicilian mastermind Leonardo Notarbartolo — being played by Italy’s Kim Rossi Stewart — who in 2003 managed to circumvent the advanced security system of the Antwerp Diamond Center and steal precious stones worth more than $100 million. Everett and McDowell play secondary roles that will add international heft to the high-end skein produced by Fremantle-owned Wildside that will drop globally in 2023.
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Lauryn Hill and Wyclef Jean teamed up for a very special performance at the 2022 Essence Festival.
Thania Garcia Ms. Lauryn Hill reunited with Wyclef Jean at the Essence Festival in New Orleans Friday evening for a surprise performance of four Fugees songs.
Lauryn Hill made a surprise guest appearance during Wyclef Jean‘s set at Essence festival on Friday night (July 1), joining him to perform four Fugees songs.Hill appeared about half an hour into Jean’s set at the New Orleans event, with the two launching into their famous cover of Lori Lieberman’s ‘Killing Me Softly With His Song’, ‘How Many Mics’, ‘Fu-Gee-La’ and ‘Ready Or Not’. Check out some fan-shot footage of the performance below.Fugees is the outfit that Hill, Jean and Pras Michel formed in the early ’90s.
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