HILL, LAURYN– MTV UNPLUGGED 2.0

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MTV Unplugged No. 2.0 is a live album by American singer Lauryn Hill. It was released on May 7, 2002, by Columbia Records. The performance was recorded on July 21, 2001, at MTV Studios in Times Square and directed by Alex Coletti for the television series MTV Unplugged. Hill played a set of previously unreleased, newly written acoustic songs and a cover of Bob Marley's "So Much Things to Say" performing without a band, while playing guitar and pregnant with her third child, YG Marley. It was produced by both Hill and Coletti.

Its lyrics center on themes of religion, personal growth, mental health, and abuse of authority, alongside spoken interludes. Songs such as "I Find It Hard to Say (Rebel)", written in response to the 1999 police killing of Amadou Diallo, and "Mystery of Iniquity", address police brutality and inequality in the justice system, while "I Gotta Find Peace of Mind" depicts a search for inner peace.

Upon release, the album debuted at number three on the US Billboard 200 with first-week sales of 122,000 copies, marking the highest debut for an Unplugged release by a female artist until Alicia Keys' Unplugged (2005). It was later certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. Additionally, the album reached the top ten in several international markets, including Japan and Canada. It was promoted with a headlining set during the 2002 Smokin Grooves Tour, with Questlove opening for Hill.

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TRACKLIST:
Intro
Mr. Intentional
Adam Lives In Theory
Interlude 1
Oh Jerusalem
Interlude 2
Freedom Time
Interlude 3
I Find It Hard To Say (Rebel)
Just Like Water
Interlude 4
Just Want You Around
I Gotta Find Peace Of Mind
Interlude 5
Mystery Of Iniquity
Interlude 6
I Get Out
Interlude 7
I Remember
So Much Things To Say
The Conquering Lion
Outro