Rapper-singer Lauryn Hill has been released from prison after serving her three-month sentence for failing to file tax returns. The former Fugee served her time at the federal prison in Danbury, Connecticut, a minimum-security facility. Hill pleaded guilty to failing to pay taxes on more than $1.8 million earned between 2005 and 2007.
Hill, upon her release, has also dropped a new single. The song is called “Consumerism,” and features the socially aware artist speaking against various societal ills. In typical latter-day Hill fashion, she goes off on a myriad of targets–ranging from racism to fascism to commercialism to “neo McCarthyism.”
The star claimed historical racism was partly to blame for her failing to file taxes, and despite paying the majority of her balance the week before her sentencing, Hill was still sentenced to serve 90 days in prison. She also inked a new record deal with Sony shortly before she was sentenced, with a new album reportedly on the way. Hill has not released a studio album since her critically acclaimed solo debut The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. She hasn’t released a full-length album of any kind since 2002s Unplugged 2.0.
The song echoes Hill’s Tumblr post from 2012, where she railed against a “climate of hostility, false entitlement, manipulation, racial prejudice, sexism and ageism.”
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