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Wowza….now this I gotta see, for better or for worse….the good peoples at URB (hi Ray) report that Lauryn Hill will be headlining this summer’s “Rock the Bells” tour, and that A Tribe Called Quest may join Hill. Just think of the possibilities! (and let them cover up all the recent awkward moments that we may or may not have felt when watching Lauryn in the past few years.) I will be keeping hope alive and replaying Miseducation…(Recently I was in a store, maybe Club Monaco, and they were playing that Unplugged album. I definitely did not get the urge to buy any flirty dresses, in fact, I may have started sobbing for no reason. No bueno!) So, note to Ms. Hill’s show producer, let’s keep it light. Jazz fingers!

UPDATE:
Ack, URB! My weak heart!….turns out the “Rock the Bells” line-up was announced tonite in LA, and, dagnamit, no Lauryn and not A Tribe Called Quest! Perhaps this isn’t the complete list….but the acts that were announced so far include: Yelawolf, Brother Ali, Immortal Technique, The Clipse, Wiz Khalifa, Murs, Slick Rick, KRS One, Rakim, Wu Tang Clan.
(Does feel like a headliner could still be added here….right? maybe? no?…sigh)

Previously:
Lauryn Hill “World is a Hustle”
Lauryn Hill performs in Brooklyn….was it great or terrible?

More of the emotional roller coaster….after the jump

DDotOmen sent over a video clip that may include audio of Lauryn Hill rehearsing “Lost Ones”….watch (with your head tilted sideways)…(welp, maybe that rehearsal was actually for this Columbia High School benefit show?)


(No clue who JessieTexas is…but why o why, sideways? lol)

PS: on the topic of ATCQ performing together on the tour, I hope the dynamic is strong. It seemed a bit distant in Phife Dawg’s recent interview with HipHopDX….excerpt after the jump

DX: I remember back when you went at Tip for that “Maxwell look” on “Flawless,” and I know shit ain’t always been kosher between y’all. So, is that relationship where it needs to be?
Phife Dawg: It’s cool as long as we ain’t dealing with each other 24/7. I’m either in Atlanta or California [and] he’s [normally] in the [New York] tri-state area… When we see each other it’s all love. But as long as it ain’t about the business – ‘Cause I think the business pretty much drove us crazy, man. We’ve known each other longer than anybody else in this world, outside of our families. So at the end of the day we’ve still gotta look each other in the face, and look at ourselves in the mirror, no matter how it goes down. But he’s still my man, fifty-grand. We call each other when the [New York] Jets games come on and be yelling at the top of our lungs – whether they’re winning or losing. And then every now and then we argue about this music shit, and where we need to be as a group, and if we’re still a group and things like that. It happens. But at the end of the day, the relationship is like – I can’t speak for him, but for me it’s like I could argue with this dude, he’s my brother. It happens in everybody’s family. But if I step outside and some dudes wanna try and play him and I’m there, I’m not letting it go down like that. But I will take him inside and punch him in the face [Laughs.] So, that’s just how the relationship is.

(source: Paul W. Arnold/HipHopDX)