Lirik lagu "Killing Me Softly with His Song" versi hip-hop oleh Fugees

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Jakarta PinangRaya - Grup musik hip hop dari Amerika Serikat Fugees mengaransemen ulang lagu "Killing Me Softly with His Song" nan memenangi jenis penghargaan.

Lagu ini sukses meraih "Record of the Year", "Song of The Year", hingga "Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female" dalam Grammy Awards ke-16 tahun 1973 ketika dibawakan oleh penyanyi blues Roberta Flack.

Fugees memainkan hip-hop di mana sejumlah penggalan liriknya memanggil nama trio personil grup itu ialah Wyclef Jean, Lauryn "L-Boogie" Hill, dan Prakazrel "Prasrel" Michel.

Lagu "Killing Me Softly with His Song" awalnya diciptakan oleh penulis lagu AS Norman Gimbel dan komposer musik AS Charles Fox untuk penyanyi blues Lori Lieberman pada 1971 dan dirilis melalui Capitol Records dalam album berjudul "Lori Lieberman" pada Juli 1972.

Lagu tersebut mengisahkan seseorang nan tersentuh oleh lagu nan dinyanyikan seorang pria.

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Lirik lagu "Killing Me Softly with His Song" sebagai berikut:

Strumming my pain with his fingers
Singing my life with his words
Killing me softly with his song
Killing me softly with his song
Telling my whole life with his words
Killing me softly with his song

(Ah) yo (yeah yeah)
This is Wyclef, Refugee Camp (L-Boogie up in here)
Prasrel (Prasrel up in here, haha)
Lil' Base sittin' up here on the bass (The Fugees up in here)
While I'm on this, I comberan my girl L (ah, ah)
One time (one time)
One time (one time)
A yo, L, you know you comberan the lyrics

I heard he sang a good song

I heard he had a style

And so I came to see him

to listen for a while

And there he was this young boy

A stranger to my eyes

Strumming my pain with his fingers (one time, one time)

Singing my life with his words (two times, two times)

Killing me softly with his song

Telling my whole life with his words

Killing me softly with his song

I felt all flushed with fever

Embarrassed by the crowd

I felt he'd found my letters

And read each one out loud

I prayed that he would finish

But he just kept right on

Strumming my pain with his fingers (one time, one time)
Singing my life with his words (two times, two times)

Killing me softly with his song

Telling my whole life with his wordsKilling me softly with his song

Yo, L-Boog, take me to the bridge

Whoa
Woah-oah-ah-ah-ah uh, uh
La-la-la, la, la, la
Whoa, la
Whoa, la (ha, ha, ha, ha)
La-ah-ah-ah-ah

Strumming my pain with his fingers (yes, he was singing my life)
Singing my life with his words
Killing me softly with his song
Killing me softly with his song
Telling my whole life with his words
Killing me softly with his song

Strumming my pain (yo, put your hands together for L-Boogie)
Yeah yeah (from the Refugee Camp) yeah, yeah
Singing my life with his words (up in here, you know how we do, L-Boogie up in here)
Yeah yeah (Wyclef, Prasrel, said L-Boogie up in here)
Wyclef up in here
Killing me softly with his song (my man Lil' Base) (Prasrel up in here)
(Jerry one time) Killing Me Softly
(T Rocks up in here, we comberan Warren up in here) With his song
Telling my whole life (This is how we) (Warren up, up in here, outsiders up here)
With his words (we comberan Fallon up in here)
Killing me softly (Refugee Camp, Refugee Camp)
(Mulaney, Mulaney's up in here, we comberan Val' up in here) With his song