A review by damien_reads
She Begat This: 20 Years of the Miseducation of Lauryn Hill by Joan Morgan

2.0

Lauryn Hill is an icon, and the Miseducation of Lauryn Hill is one of the greatest albums of all time. So I of course was interested in reading what is essentially a biography of that album, and it was...okay. The fact of the matter has more to do with expectation, the book explores Hill's success and of course the album, but I was going into under the guise that the book would break down the album, which it didn't. The other problem was that for a book that is only around 150 pages it goes back to how Hill revolutionized what being black was before and after Miseducation. I am obviously okay with this; but it isn't done particularly well or with a diverse enough skillset that it doesn't start feeling repetitive.

If you want my advice, which you probably don't (nor need), throw the album on and go back to that.