'Fugee-La' is slang for 'Sell out'

Many moons ago, the Fugees announced that they were reuniting and working on a new album. Since then, one lackluster song has been circulating on the internet and I thought, 'That was that,' until this morning when a pop-ad for Verizon came up on my screen, prominently showing the Fugees.

The Fugees, in their heyday, never did this sort of schuck and jive before. This is the sort of thing I would expect from Wyclef or Pras, but Lauryn Hill? She's supposed to be the reasonable one. She's the sort of woman that is to be a pillar of example to young women everywhere (except for that whole, 'I'd rather abort my own child than accept that white people buy my music' thing).

But I guess Verizon has stockholders to please and if giving the Fugees a ton of money for free downloads of their new (and possibly crappy) songs, as well as their likeness rights, is what it takes then so be it.

By the way, have these people realized that their hasn't been a Fugees song in major rotation since 1997? Just a thought.

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