Intro Lyrics

[School bell rings]

[Teacher: Ras Baraka]
Please respond when I call your name...
Alright, Kevin Charles... (Here)
Jaris Boykins... (Here)
Alicia Simmons... (Here)
Phillip Valdez... (Here)
Gabrielle Salado... (Here)
Latoya Bradberry... (Right here)
Antawn Mitchell... (Here)
Shaquan Sutton... (Here)
Cory Thomas... (Here)
Tyron Lucas... (Here)
Kennia Codwell...(Here)
Tanika Marshall... (Here)
Lauryn Hill...
Lauryn Hill...
Lauryn Hill...

Walton Spates... (Here)

(Music fades)

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This 47 second track implies a scene with students arriving in a classroom setting at school and the teacher taking attendance. Little interludes of this class scene is can be heard all across the album in later songs.

New Jersey poet and future politician Ras Baraka plays the teacher, as he talks to the group of students in the living room of Lauryn Hill’s house.

Lauryn Hill asked Ras Baraka to teach the children about love and the ensuing conversation was actually improvised.

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Produced By
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Alto Saxophone
Wurlitzer electric piano
Recording Engineer
Tenor Saxophone
Hammond B3 Organ
Rhodes Electric Piano
Mixing Engineer
Assistant Recording Engineer
Flugelhorn
Trombone
Recorded At
Metropolis Studio (London, England) and Chung King Studios (NYC)
Release Date
August 25, 1998
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