Listen to the Spotify playlist below to hear the original samples used to create my Nina Simone x Lauryn Hill collaboration The Miseducation of Eunice Waymon. Featuring tracks by Nina Simone, Lauryn Hill, The Fugees, Sister Nancy, Nas, and many more.
With his latest Soul Mates Project, Amerigo Gazaway imagines a studio session between The High Priestess of Soul, Nina Simone, and living legend, Lauryn Hill. Continuing the “collaborations that never were” theme of his previous releases, the producer seamlessly connects the dots between Hip-Hop and the genre’s predecessor, Soul.
Back in 2016, I had the pleasure of discussing my conceptual collaboration projects via a roundtable discussion at MoPOP’s annual POP Conference in Seattle. During our discussion, a fellow panelist, writer and professor, Zandria Robinson, posed an interesting question: “where’s your project celebrating women artists?”
Two years later and I’m excited to finally share the answer with my new Nina Simone + Lauryn Hill collaboration, “The Miseducation of Eunice Waymon”. Given the project was, in part, inspired by Zandria’s question, she got the first listen and has written a few words on the album below. – AG
Tracklist
1. Feeling Good
2. Ready Or Not feat. The Fugees
3. Doo Wop (That Thing)
4. To Zion feat. Carlos Santana
5. Fu-Gee-La feat. The Fugees
6. The Sweetest Thing feat. John Forté
7. Take It Easy
8. Peace Of Mind
9. Lost Ones
10. Killing Me Softly
11. If I Ruled The World feat. Nas
12. How Many Mic feat. The Fugees
13. So High feat. John Legend
14. Care For What
15. Angel Of The Morning
16. The Miseducation of Eunice Waymon
17. Fu-Gee-La (Refugee Camp Remix) [Bonus Track]
