New music: Lauryn Hill – Repercussions

Lauryn Hill has been away from music for far too long, so you can't blame fans for getting excited about the unexpected arrival of a new song. The question is, is the track actually new or an unreleased recording from the late 1990s? Repercussion is a languid, introspective account of Hill's life with lyrics recalling those on her 1998 album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill: "I was born into this world, a little ditty baby girl ... a racist world, now it's a difficult process – the matter is of perception." As it bears the hallmarks of her earlier work, fans are already speculating that it was a reject from The Miseducation ... LP, while others suggest the recent confirmation that the singer will play the Rock the Bells tour in the US is a sign she's about to release new material. Maybe our blog convinced her to up the work rate!