Post by Sweet Meat aka CC on Jan 10, 2004 23:08:02 GMT -5
Lauryn Hill Selling Music, Art, Autographs Online
NEW YORK (Billboard) - Lauryn Hill has taken to her official Web site (http://www.laurynhill.com) to sell art prints, autographed posters and a poem titled "The Middle Man."
For $15, visitors can purchase a video clip of Hill performing a new song titled "Social Drugs" on guitar.
Some of the autographed items are selling for $500, while "The Middle Man" is being sold for $75. An excerpt of the poem on the site reads, "If everyone is a product of this society, who will say the things that need to be said, and do the things that need to be done, without compromise? Truth will never start out popular in a world more concerned with marketability than righteousness. It will initially suffer ridicule and even violence -- yet ultimately it is undeniable. All of humanity is living in a dream world but suffering real consequences."
Hill has virtually disappeared from the public eye since taping an erratic 2001 performance for "MTV Unplugged" that was later released on CD by Ruffhouse. In a controversial multi-artist concert last month at the Vatican, she slammed the church for "corruption," "exploitation" and "abuses."
No release date has been set for Hill's next studio album, which will be her first since her groundbreaking 1998 debut, "The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill." The set has sold more than 6.3 million copies in the U.S., according to Nielsen SoundScan.
DAMN, Lauryn!
I mean yeah, you're one of the best, but $15 for a video clip?! For that price I want the full-length video and some behind-the-scenes footage. And I ain't EVEN gonna say nuffin' about the cost of the autographed items or the poem. 
