Hill and Jean were speaking up of Diaspora Calling! By Ms. Lauryn Hill, a one-day festival that volition marque its UK debut astatine the Milton Keynes National Bowl connected Friday.
The lawsuit volition diagnostic performances from Hill, Jean, Erykah Badu, Giggs, Fireboy DML, YG Marley and Zion Marley, with comedian Dave Chappelle hosting.
Reflecting connected the day of The Score, Jean said the Fugees' ambitions had ever extended beyond music.
"I retrieve saying from a precise young age, we're not going to bash music, we're going to beryllium a movement," helium said.
He said the themes explored by the radical 3 decades agone stay arsenic applicable arsenic ever.
"When you speech astir the thought of refugees, look wherever we are today. We were saying these things 30 years ago. It was ne'er conscionable astir america – it was ever astir the movement."
Hill said the Fugees themselves embodied the thought down Diaspora Calling.
"Our antithetic places of root came unneurotic to unite culture, bespeak civilization and amusement radical however beautiful, almighty and resourceful that civilization is," she said.
Earlier successful the day, Hill and Jean amazed fans with a pop-up quality successful London's Piccadilly Circus, performing an a cappella rendition of Ready oregon Not.
Hill said London was the earthy spot to motorboat the festival.
"There's truthful overmuch of the diaspora successful London," she said. "So galore radical are represented here. It felt similar a full-circle infinitesimal for us."
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