Over the weekend, the once-great Lauryn Hill paid off $900,000 in back taxes. She also announced a new label deal, and released a rare new song called “Neurotic Society (Compulsory Mix),” all in an attempt to raise enough money to pay off a gargantuan tax debt. It wasn’t enough. Over the past decade, Hill has [...]

Lauryn Hill was sentenced to three months in prison on Monday (May 6) for failure to pay taxes. The sentence also comes with three months of home confinement

Singer compared her situation to that of slave ancestors    

By David Jones NEWARK, New Jersey (Reuters) - A U.S. magistrate judge sentenced Grammy-winning hip hop artist Lauryn Hill to three months in prison, three months in home confinement and a $60,000 fine on Monday for federal tax evasion. Hill pleaded guilty last year to three counts of failing to file tax returns on more than $1.8 million of incom...

Lauryn Hill released a new song last night, “Neurotic Society (Compulsory Mix).” It’s a fiercely urgent commentary on social and economic injustice, about the toxic speed of the world we live in. It’s only appropriate that her verses are extremely speedy as well; like the song she is singing is just anothe...