NEW YORK --- Janelle Monae doesn't remember the first album she owned as a child, but the first one she spent her hard-earned money on? "The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill." "I just connected with Lauryn on many levels. The fact that she was a young black woman in America --- she looked like a lot of the women in my family. ...I just loved how she was able to bring her religious background, her singing and acting background together (and) her hip-hop background," Monae recalled of Hill, whose solo debut celebrates its 20th anniversary this year and was the first hip-hop project to win the Grammy for album of the year. "The fact that she was all of her(self) on her project felt ins...
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