The Score

The Rating is the second and closing studio album by the hip hop trio Fugees, launched worldwide February 13, 1996 on Columbia Data. The album options a variety of samples and instrumentation, with many features of other hip hop that may come to dominate the hip hop music scene within the mid-late Nineteen Nineties. The Rating’s manufacturing was dealt with largely by the Fugees themselves and Jerry Duplessis, with extra manufacturing from Salaam Remi, John Forté, Diamond D, and Shawn King. The album’s visitor raps are from Outsidaz’ members Rah Digga, Younger Zee and Pacewon, in addition to Omega, John Forté, and Diamond D. Most variations of the album characteristic 4 bonus tracks, together with three remixes of “Fu-Gee-La”, and a brief acoustic Wyclef Jean solo monitor entitled “Mista Mista.” Upon it is launch, The Rating was a business success, peaking on the primary spot on each the Billboard 200, and the Prime R&B/Hip Hop Albums chart (it was a number-one album on the latter in 1996 on the year-end chart). The singles “Killing Me Softly, ” “Fu-Gee-La, ” and “Prepared or Not” additionally achieved notable chart success, and helped the group obtain worldwide recognition. On October 3, 1997, The Rating was licensed six occasions platinum in gross sales by the Recording Business Affiliation of America (RIAA). Along with receiving largely favorable evaluations upon it is launch, the album has garnered a substantial quantity of acclaim through the years, with many music critics and publications noting it as one of many biggest albums of the Nineteen Nineties, in addition to one of many biggest hip hop albums of all time. In 1998, the album was included in The Supply’s 100 greatest rap albums listing, and in 2003, it was ranked quantity 477 on Rolling Stone journal’s listing of the five hundred biggest albums of all time.