Nina Simone & Lauryn Hill - Ready Or Not (feat The Fugees) (Prod. Amerigo Gazaway)

With his latest Soul Mates Project, Amerigo Gazaway imagines a studio session between The High Priestess of Soul, Nina Simone, and living legend, Lauryn Hill. Continuing the “collaborations that never were” theme of his previous releases, the producer seamlessly connects the dots between Hip-Hop and the genre’s predecessor, Soul.

Download the full album here:

Tracklist:
01. Feeling Good
02. Ready Or Not feat. The Fugees
03. Doo Wop (That Thing)
04. To Zion feat. Carlos Santana
05. Fu-Gee-La feat. The Fugees
06. The Sweetest Thing feat. John Forté
07. Take It Easy
08. Peace Of Mind
09. Lost Ones
10. Killing Me Softly
11. If I Ruled The World feat. Nas
12. How Many Mic feat. The Fugees
13. So High feat. John Legend
14. Care For What 1:04:16
15. Angel Of The Morning
16. The Miseducation of Eunice Waymon
*17. Fu-Gee-La (Refugee Camp Remix) [Bonus Track]

Back in 2016, I had the pleasure of discussing my conceptual collaboration projects via a roundtable discussion at MoPOP’s annual POP Conference in Seattle. During our discussion, a fellow panelist, writer and professor, Zandria Robinson, posed an interesting question: “where’s your project celebrating women artists?”

Two years later and I’m excited to finally share the answer with my new Nina Simone + Lauryn Hill mixtape, “The Miseducation of Eunice Waymon”. Given the project was, in part, inspired by Zandria’s question, she got the first listen and has written a few words on the album below. -AG

“Soul Mates’ “collaborations that never were” enters new territory with a now familiar deft and verve, this time highlighting intergenerational conjurings between two black women cultural workers from the civil rights and hip-hop generations. With Nina Simone and Lauryn Hill seated together at the table, collaboration transforms into vivid conversation, call and response, and a call to action--private, personal, and public--across space, time, and realm.

With "The Miseducation of Eunice Waymon", Amerigo Gazaway renders listeners children in the backseat of a shiny black Chevy, transfixed by the mysteries of grown women’s conversations. We ride along and listen quietly as Hill drives down South to retrieve Simone from North Carolina and the two travel back north together, to New Jersey and then to New York, and onward to woman-ish soul eternity.

Gazaway does a different kind of labor in this mashup, creating a private, interior space for these women to speak the truths of their lives, both to themselves and to each other. As they come to know each other across the project’s apt sample and song combinations and interview snippets, Simone’s piano accompanies and buoys Lauryn and Lauryn sings back Nina’s words and sounds a resonant understanding with her acoustic guitar. They become gold- and white-framed mirrors, dancing to breakbeats around each other’s personal and political struggles and triumphs with all the freedom being seen, being recognized, brings.

In this curated interior space, audiences are compelled, at last, to listen to all of what and who these women were and are and to really hear those truths: to listen and learn about care, alienation, desperation, motherhood, women’s work; about the unending strivings for interpersonal peace and understanding; and about the necessity for liberation.”  - Zandria Robinson

Produced by Amerigo Gazaway
Executive Producer: Rickey Mindlin
Soul Mates 2018

DIY Acapellas by The Goodwill Projects:

[naleka]

Thank you, Nina. I hope this lost lost man called Kanye West is listening to your words.
The blessing belongs to our Ancestors who gave their lives for our precious FREEDOM!

[mikeneidlinger]

Fugees made The Score which is one of my favorite albums to listen to straight through.

[paulorogeriodelmondesalves]

Many comments from people all over the world. This kind of song brings together people independently of their nationality. That's the power of Nina and Lauryn Hill

[jackymaleka]

What a medly from the best soul sisters

[spiritualbeing]

Yes indeed.we are the most beautiful and unique people under the planet earth 🌎🌎🌎..

[unknwn.entity]

OMFG! great stuff! I love Nina Simone, this production is simply amazing! Greetings from Brazil (x

[cubensisa]

Lauryn and Nina, it just cant get any better....

[Budi]

Gazaway thank u for your spirit mtf!!!! King!!! They dont know bruu

[ibtnaziah]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤Love de combination !! 👌👌❤❤❤💃💃💃

[Croft]

Why am I only just hearing this 🙌🏽🙌🏽 beautiful soul music 🎶

[cristianosilva]

Música dos bons malandros da década de 90 🔥

[katxuribeiro]

No solo un Meteorito trajo un regalo
Todos lo somos

[Cosmikhbo]

Absolutely amazing, two amazing women combined with formers group together. I am left speechless and I return to this song if not monthly, yearly atleast <3
With love and passion for music and creativity from Finland.

[ArTeMuSa..]

Me encanta...dos piezas k encajan a la perfección...lo bueno no abunda a disfrutarlo

[Videos]

Love is still the answer. Shine on Soul Mates!

[MrDeeRWhite]

This remix is dope - Youtube is reading my mind a little - this came up on the "my station" mix.