
Standing in federal court this week, Lauryn Hill compared her experience in the music industry to the slavery her ancestors endured before a judge sentenced her to three months in prison for failing to pay about $1 million in taxes over the past decade.
I am a child of former slaves who had a system imposed on them. I had an economic system imposed on me . . . Someone did the math, and it came to around $600 million. And I sit here before you trying to figure out how to pay a tax debt? If that’s not like enough to slavery, I don’t know.
I need to take a long drag from her blunt and leave this backyard boogie alone. You don’t understand the ways I am going to flip the phrase ‘if that’s not like enough to slavery’ this season. Stay tuned!




