Producer and Wycleaf Jean’s cousin Jerry “Wonder” Duplessi told Complex:
Hip hop group The Fugees covered the song in 1996 on their album The Score, with Lauryn Hill singing the lead vocals. Their version, titled 'Killing Me Softly,'. Play download Related Music Lauryn Hill - Cant take my eyes off of you The Fugees - Ready or Not Lauryn Hill - Doo-Wop (That Thing) BOB MARLEY FEAT LAURYN HILL 'Turn your lights down low' The Fugees - Ooh La La La.
We have to give Pras a big shout out. If I remember correctly, that song was the last record we did. Everybody was rapping, rapping, rap, rap, rap. And we’re like. “Hold up, man, we have to have a song on this shit.
Pras came up and was like “Yo let’s do a cover of ‘Killing Me Softly.’” Cats in the studio were like, “Oh my god, now you’re so soft doing the ‘Killing Me Softly.’ It’s kind of soft guys. Come on everybody’s hardcore, hardcore, let’s go.
Lauryn agreed to sing the song. We messed with the record a bit and made it hard. Some idea came up where we just said “You know what, let’s see how we can create break beats.” And of course, we all love A Tribe Called Quest and we went in like “Okay, let’s cut that sample.” And that’s what we did.
At the time, I had this bass and I wanted to make sure it wasn’t overplayed because you know it’s a hip hop record. And I didn’t want to be too much planning. If you listen to that bass, it’s just one drop, it’s that reggae one drop.
Wycleaf Jean said:
This title is a cover of Killing me Softly as made famous by The Fugees
Same as the original tempo: 92.41 BPM
In the same key as the original: Em
This song ends without fade out
The song begins a cappella
Duration: 5:07 - Preview at: 1:31
These music files do not include lyrics. Download the karaoke with lyrics.
Release date: 1996
Format: MP3 320 Kbps
Genres:R&B, Rap & Hip-Hop, In English
Original songwriter: Charles Fox, Norman Gimbel
All files available for download are reproduced tracks, they're not the original music.
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