Lauryn Hill and Wyclef Jean have said there’s “absolutely” new music in the future.
The Fugees bandmates have reunited for Hill’s Diaspora Calling! festival, which takes place today (7 August) at Milton Keynes National Bowl.
Hill and Wyclef Jean are scheduled to play, alongside Erykah Badu, Giggs and Hill’s sons YG Marley and Zion Marley – also the grandchildren of reggae icon Bob Marley.
Speaking to the BBC, the Fugees bandmates were asked whether a new album might be on the way.
“Will there be music in the future?”, Jean restated, with Hill responding: “Absolutely”.
Jean added that “we’re in God’s hands,” and went on to tell the BBC: “I’m back with my bandmate! So we’re in an amazing place. I think the energy is very important.”
Hill concurred, saying: “There was an incredible healing process that happened with us as a band and as bandmates, and as you said we just want to showcase that and give some of that energy to the world as well.”
The Fugees – made up of Hill, Wyclef Jean and Pras Michel – attained great success in the 1990s with their only two studio albums, 1994’s ‘Blunted On Reality’ and the classic 1996 record ‘The Score’. The group split in 1997, and have not released an album since then.
Briefly reforming between 2004 and 2006, they reunited for a tour to celebrate the 25th anniversary of ‘The Score’ in 2021.
However, just before their 2024 US tour, the Fugees called off their scheduled dates, with Pras suing Lauryn Hill for fraud shortly afterwards. He claimed the tour was sabotaged by Hill’s “arrogance” and “narcissistic tendencies”, also alleging that the singer included “unnecessary and, most likely fictitious expenses” within the tour budget.
In a statement shared with NME, Hill called Pras’ lawsuit “baseless” and “full of false claims and unwarranted attacks”, claiming that it “omits that he was advanced overpayment for the last tour and has failed to repay substantial loans extended by myself as an act of goodwill.”
She also claimed that Pras’ had been given “a $3million advance… which he said he required to pay his legal fees.” In April 2023, Michel was convicted for his involvement in a billion-dollar Malaysian money laundering scheme, and his legal situation reportedly led to The Fugees’ 2022 reunion tour being completely cancelled.
Pras later proclaimed that he was “done” with the Fugees, and was eventually sentenced to 14 years in prison.
Hill and Jean, meanwhile, have gone on to perform together on a number of occasions. They performed together at Roberta Flack’s memorial in 2025, with Jean joining Hill on stage to perform Fugees classics in London later that year.
Elsewhere, Lauryn Hill has explained why she’s never released another album after her classic 1998 debut, ‘The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill’.
