After Nicki Minaj pulled out of Summer Jam 2012 at the last minute, she went public with the list of special surprise guests she had lined up, including Ms. Lauryn Hill.
Well somebody should have told Lauryn.
In a statement released earlier today Ms. Hill makes it clear she was not scheduled to perform with nor invited to Summer Jam by Nicki Minaj...
Lauryn writes,
No disrespect to Nicki, but I need to clear up an inaccuracy. I was not scheduled to be a special guest on her set at Summer Jam, I was invited by Nas to perform with him. I don’t have details on exactly what transpired between the station and the artists, but I do support artists standing by their beliefs, and walking with integrity. We have to find a better way to commercially exploit music, while giving artists their proper respect. This cannot be done while taking their contributions for granted, or trying to control the scope of their growth and power through threats and fear tactics. We can do better than this, there is a better way, or else ‘we’ (the proverbial we) find ourselves in danger of being hypocrites!!!Ms. Lauryn Hill
