Hill’s release follows a controversial three-month sentence for failing to file tax returns on over $2 million in income over a two-year period beginning in 2005. Leading up to her incareration, she cited historical racism as one of the bigger reasons of her tax woes. On a brighter note, she recently inked a deal with Sony and a new record is reportedly in the works.
Friday, 4 October 2013
LAURYN HILL OUT OF PRISON
Wow…that was fast! After serving a three-month sentence for tax evasion, Lauryn Hill was released from prison today and is marking the occasion with a new single called “Consumerism.”
Hill — aka Inmate #64600-050 — was released early Friday morning from the minimum security Federal Correction Institution in Danbury, Connecticut.
On her new track, L-Boogie speed-raps through a laundry list of societal ills over a chaotic rhythm that’s more Death Grips than “Killing Me Softly.” Her pointed voice brutally targets “corporate greed in Jesus’ name,” decrying ageism, sexism, racism, fascism, “compromised commercialism,” and “neo-McCarthyism.” Hill’s release follows a controversial three-month sentence for failing to file tax returns on over $2 million in income over a two-year period beginning in 2005. Leading up to her incareration, she cited historical racism as one of the bigger reasons of her tax woes. On a brighter note, she recently inked a deal with Sony and a new record is reportedly in the works.
Hill’s release follows a controversial three-month sentence for failing to file tax returns on over $2 million in income over a two-year period beginning in 2005. Leading up to her incareration, she cited historical racism as one of the bigger reasons of her tax woes. On a brighter note, she recently inked a deal with Sony and a new record is reportedly in the works.
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