It was created in the early-mid вЂ™90s when the group was still experimenting, on a beat Salaam Remi originally made for Fat Joe. But вЂњFu-Gee-LaвЂќ predated the polished, finished project, starting as a raw loosie produced on the fringes of a session for a вЂњVocabвЂќ remix.

The Fugees, as many have come to know them, appeared fully formed in 1996 on вЂњFu-Gee-La,вЂќ the lead single from the trioвЂ™s ground-breaking, major label opus, The Score. When Marcy abandoned the group after a few sessions, the trio adopted the name Tranzlator Crew, then later, Fugees. And he sought out Wyclef, who was already adapting the music of the Caribbean to fit his own, to add more reggae flavor into the mix. Pras was an instrumentalist who was privy to rap as a kid but blocked from listening to it, instead spending long afternoons scanning the dials of his family radio for hard and soft rock. 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 вЂњMarcyвЂќ 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 вЂ™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 dadвЂ™s church in New Jersey looking to join a band, not a rap group.

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