Even then, Hill was preternaturally talented, with a deep-rooted knowledge of R&B and Motown soul. As Wyclef tells it, Pras was a dreadful trumpet player, but he introduced Wyclef to two young musicians from his Newark high school: the mononymously known “Marcy” and a choir singer named Lauryn Hill. Pras sought out Clef to play trumpet in the church band. Wyclef was already something of a local celebrity in the mid ’80s, writing raps in a session produced by Kurtis Blow for a group called Exact Change (on a single recording that was never released), and picking up the nickname the Rap Translator. Pras Michel first came to Wyclef Jean at his dad’s church in New Jersey looking to join a band, not a rap group. On their underrated commercial-flop debut album, the Fugees searched energetically for the voice they would find on The Score.
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