Lauryn Hill, Wyclef Jean, and Pras offered a refreshing change to the gang-related themes of '90s hip-hop when they released their breakthrough 1996 album The Score, which paired Roberta Flack and Bob Marley samples with socially-conscious messages. "That gangsta shit is B.S.," Jean told SPIN that April. "The real thugs and gangsters got the rappers saying that shit. The real gangster to me is the guy who owns Sony [the Fugees' record label], the guy who owns SPIN, the guy who owns MTV. Hardcore is like being in a house with the eight of us, mom on welfare."

Corio met the trio right after they had signed a deal with Sony in the early '90s. "They were fresh and very shy," he recalls. "Lauryn looks like a little baby! They were quite awed by it all."

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