A Devil's Deal? - Lauryn Hill Signs With Sony Music

Singer—songwriter, producer and actress Lauryn Noelle Hill makes a deal with the Devil, and signs a 1 million dollar contract with record giant Sony.

A natural performer, Lauryn Hill was singing by the age of 13. Soon after, she formed a band, the Fugees, which began performing in area clubs, with Hill singing lead vocals.

Hill enrolled at Columbia University, where she studied for a year before pursuing a performance career. 

Lauryn Hill's first solo effort, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (1998), established her as a major talent in her own right. 

After an extended hiatus, Hill recorded her two-hour acoustic performance on the popular series MTV Unplugged. 

Outside of her performance career, Hill is a dedicated activist. She founded an organization dedicated to serving underprivileged urban youth called the Refugee Camp Youth Project; the group raises money to send inner-city children in Hill's native New Jersey to summer camp.

Hill has five children with longtime boyfriend Rohan Marley, the son of legendary reggae singer Bob Marley.

In May 2013, a 37-year-old Hill made headlines when she was sentenced to three months in prison for not paying federal taxes on approximately $1 million in earnings. 

 "I needed to be able to earn so I could pay my taxes, without compromising the health and welfare of my children, and I was being denied that" 

The sentence in federal court in Newark, N.J., was a major setback for Ms. Hill.  [source]

Ms. Hill pleaded guilty last year to charges that she had failed to file tax returns from 2005 to 2007, despite owning four companies and taking in more than $1.8 million in gross revenues, according to the complaint against her. In court, she told the judge she had intended to pay her taxes eventually but was unable to do so when she dropped out of the music business to focus on her children.

She is to report to prison on July 8, of this year. The judge also sentenced her 3 months in prison and an additional three months of home confinement after her release.

Ms. Hill’s attorney Nathan Hochman said she had paid about $970,000 to satisfy her unpaid state and federal tax bills, as well as penalties. That payment came on the eve of the singer’s sentencing, nearly two weeks after United States Magistrate Judge Madeline Cox Arleo had scolded her in court for being slow to square her accounts with the government.

“Ms. Hill has not only now fully paid, prior to sentencing, her taxes, which are part of her criminal restitution, but she has additionally fully paid her federal and state personal taxes for the entire period under examination” —Nathan Hochman

Ms. Hill recently signed a new record deal and has released one of her new songs — “Neurotic Society (Compulsory Mix).” [source]

Ms. Hill said she had dropped out of the music business to shield herself and her children from society, and she portrayed her decision to stop paying taxes as part of that effort. 

“I did whatever needed to be done in order to insulate my family from the climate of hostility, false entitlement, manipulation, racial prejudice, sexism and ageism that I was surrounded by” —Lauryn Hill

The Re—Education For Lauryn Hill

 

Grammy award-winning singer Lauryn Hill has been ordered by a judge to “undergo counseling because of her conspiracy theories.” 

What was her conspiracy theory? 

That the music industry oppresses people with actual talent in favor of pumping out mindless nonsense.

In June last year, Hill posted a diatribe to her Tumblr account complaining of how the music industry is 

“manipulated and controlled by a media protected military industrial complex.”

There have been other recording artists, which include big names like Eminem, Lil Wayne and DMX.  All have made it clear that anyone who doesn’t conform to the strict demands of the music industry or even, as Nicole Scherzinger recently remarked, sell their soul to satan, tends to find success hard to maintain in an industry that punishes individuals who dare to speak their mind.

In numerous performances and speeches over the last few years, Hill has attempted to warn young people about how “pop culture cannibalism” and the deliberate reductionism of art and music is damaging a whole generation and turning them into passive, unthinking consumers – destroying inspiration and true creativity in the name of profit.

The Judge’s order that Hill undergo what amounts to brainwashing and re—education simply for publicly proclaiming the fact that the music industry is designed to strangle true talent while promoting amoral, vacuous, mindless, turgid drivel, is part of the increasing trend towards labeling common sense as a mental illness if it goes against the establishment grain in any way.

Since people who post vehement political opinions on Facebook are already being kidnapped and taken to psychiatric wards across the country, how long before criticism of the state is officially recognized as a mental disorder?

Those considered hostile to authority have already been tagged as sufferers of “oppositional defiant disorder” under the the DSM-IV-TR Manual.

The definition of this mental illness is, 

“a recurrent pattern of negativistic, defiant, disobedient. and hostile behavior toward authority figures that persists for at least 6 months.”

The attempt to frame alternative opinions as dangerous mental disorders has also entered the political realm. 

Psychology Today wrote a hit piece on Alex Jones insinuating that anyone who believes in a secret cabal ruling the world, which is a perfectly accurate description of the Bilderberg Group, has a mental disorder.

We also reported recently on how Floridians are being encouraged to report their neighbors to authorities for making hateful comments about the government, leaving them to be targeted for home visits by police and “mental health professionals and caseworkers.”

Lauryn Hill’s case reminds us that the establishment not only seeks to ridicule, ostracize and sideline those who utter “conspiracy theories,” which has become a pejorative term for questioning authority, but they actually seek to have all dissent against the system classified as a form of mental illness in order to grease the skids for legally imposed “treatment” including re-education and even pharmacological lobotomy.

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