Lauryn Hill's Neurotic Society Contains A Slew Of Hateful, Anti-LGBT Lyrics!

i mean, she's not wrong.

Bottom line; Lauren hill is badass. She is an artist and her lyrics are meant to provoke, which they do. Give her a break I can almost guarantee she is not anti gay.

Actually, if you are into interprating art those words could be intereprated differently depending on how you read or write them. For instance girl, men run the whole world, men. 2 a pride fiend is someone who thrives off of pride, as you can see she talks about the world being ran by greed and savagely I.E. Pride. Also lastly, which i guess this could be offensive, she is using drag queens as a metaphor for cover ups. Of course this is in my opinion. I chose to believe that not everything that mentions LGBT culture is offensive

Wow, thank you very much. I've been reading about her bravery and how the courts have tried to sentence her to 're-education' for having the nerve to speak out about the music industry. Thank you Hilton!

Send that hood rat to the pen where she belongs. She has a lot of nerve speaking such trash when she has had such great support from ALL communities. I used to love her, but now that she's revealed hot truly crazy and trash she is I will never purchase another song by her again….hit the bitch where it hurts! Pay your taxes scumbag!!!

If she is weaseling out of paying her taxes and being dishonest, I don't trust her words.

If it comes across as hate, it is hate. We'll just wait to see how she squirms out of this one and says she meant something else by it. Than she should have said something else. People are entitled to their opinions, but they should be more careful how they choose to express them. Love and understanding should always come before hate and close-mindedness. Sadly, that is just a dream.

Re: rojasdiva – during times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act

re: kiki
Well, if that is so, then she should start by telling the truth about why she feels above the American tax system and all other Americans who get every day, accept and embrace others differences and live as productive and responsible citizens.

She should take the energy she puts into writing hateful lyrics and become a decent person and a responsible mother. She is a disgrace to all African American women that she pretends to speak up and out for.

And, furthermore, I would hardly call her a revolutionary act. Grow up!

Re: rojasdiva – A disgrace? Bitch please, learn your shit before you start spewing it from your mouth! Her life is dedicated to freeing humanity from mindless control; including african american women such as yourself who probably wears fake hair, has fake boobs and a fake booty. You're so fake and you have the nerve to call her fake for standing up against the man? FUCK YOU and your mom for not teaching you any better you ignorant black bitch!

this is not hate its freedom of speech if u don't like don't listen this is america
and I am black

Didn't she marry a woman in 1996 or so? Hypocrite

AND THROW AWAY THE KEY. There's no backpedaling from this, it's pretty clear that this is just another one of Lauryn Hill's angry gospels about how messed up the world is and how much everyone else (but her) is to blame. It comes as no shock to me she's a homophobe and it's pretty evident in her lyrics. Too evident to rationalize.

"Woe is me, woe is me, it's all THE SYSTEM! It's the girly men that are responsible for this!" - NOPE, you're just a lazy and very angry asshole who has alienated everyone and is too cheap to pay taxes. Enjoy the very UNGIRLY women in prison.

Re: rojasdiva – you can't even respond what an idiot

Re: haywlad – " If it comes across as hate, it is hate." Uh…no…actually it isn't. This is the kind of lazy thinking and political correctness gone mad that IMHO does more to impede real change than promote it.
Those lyrics could very easily be interpreted as referencing the greed above all else ethics permeating international capitalism, reality TV culture, modern celebrity etc. etc. without having anything to do with LGBT issues whatsoever.
If it comes across as hate it is hate…God grow up!

Re: Mad Dog –
Lol…you're f'ng idiot. Loser.

Re: kiki –
Lol. You're f'ng idiot. Loser.

Re: liz –
Lol…really, so its freedom of speech? I bet if it was lyrics that were perceived as anti-Black, you'd be freaking out about it. Hypocrites.

Re: lol –
Lol. You're f'ng idiot. Loser.

Re: linds – And it's our right to be outraged. F-you.

I read the lyrics to the entire song. Just to offer a different perspective: "Commerce and girl men / run the whole world men" - I've had lesbian friends express frustrations how even in the context of the LGBT community, gay men are often more favorably viewed than lesbian women. Hill could be speaking to male favoritism in general. "Greedy men and pride fiends / program TV screens" - capitalism (specifically that which even takes over media). Greed and pride go hand in hand. In context it looks like she's just talking about pride gluttons, not "pride" as in gay rights support… but pride as in a 7 deadly sin. "People stuck in dichotomies / pseudo sicko anxieties / serial criminals dressed in varieties / social transvestism / subliminal dressed up as piety" - people playing double roles, exhibiting an outside persona while engaging in the opposite behind closed doors. As for the drag queens, you got me. Until we hear the meanings from Hill herself, I think there's room for interpretation that's not as offensive as one would initially think. Maybe "girl men" isn't the most sensitively worded phrase, but I for sure think the "pride fiends" and "social transvestism" was taken out of context.

On one last side note, in today's popular culture we recognize Jay-Z as a modern day legend. The same man who's made a career with songs filled with misogynistic terms like "b*****s" and "h**s". So only derogatory terms are only unacceptable if they're directed towards the LGBT community? Either that or language gets a pass after a certain number of records are sold.

Not everyone is for same-sex relationships… get over it.

karma bitch-slapped this hateful has-been IN ADVANCE. Amen.

Re: rojasdiva – your mom is a bitch for not aborting your cracka ass when she had the chance…

Re: truthspeaker

Only an angry boy like you would say the shit you're saying. You are the type of person so intimidated by different ways of life and positive thinking that keep your "people" for being happy.
If you were any kind of man than you would realize the world is big place with many walks of life and that each deserve the freedom to live without hateful slurs being thrown them by bigots like Lauryn Hill…or worse violence.
Again, if she was sending a positive message than it would ring loud and clear, but often times cowards hide their hateful messages in slang terms that most have to decipher.
As for all the hateful things you have posted….bitch, go to be and pray that someday you'll become a man….A man who realizes that intolerance and hate of any kind are tools that scared little boys use to hide their insecurities.
Now, go to bed….

Re: Ottawawriter – Co-sign. "Truthspeaker" wouldn't know the truth if it punched her in her black face. White people aren't the obstacles of the blacks; it's the blacks themselves doing it. Why would any whites make any effort when the blacks are dumb enough to do it for them? LOL

Never understood why people think this has Been has any kind of talent.. She had her 10 minutes twenty years ago.. Time for her to go on welfa and fade into alcoholic obscurity..

I SERIOUSLY think you do not undrestand these lyrics as they are NO slams towards the gay and lesbian community.

In her term 'pride fiends' i feel she is actually speaking about men who are too proud, considering the phrase before is greedy men.

In her term "girl men" I think again this is a play on words and is not a direct hit towards gay men but more as an insult to the straight and weaker men. Yes could there be a better way to say this possibly but are we going to start censoring everything and trying to pick apart each and every lyric.

If you want to point fingers I would look at yourself first and see the kind of mess and heat you are attracting to a lyric that again is most likely non-offensive and taken out of context.

I really don't think that she meant any of those lyrics to be offensive to LGBT culture. pride fiends can actually mean what it says…..people who are too proud. Girl men? That doesn't necessarily need to be a gay or lesbian. Lauryn is known for her controversial lyrics, but i don't think this is the case. Calm down Perez!

Re: ajay – In some of it she is!

Lauryn didn't state hate in this verse Perez.. she stated a fact we are all aware of.. i kno ur upset cuz of the whole gay part but wat u do behind close doors is ur business.. Lauryn doesn't care about close doors and talks about wat she sees now in the industry.. being controversial isn't the point wen the controversy is always being shown and everyone else is afraid to talk about yet alone put it in a song.. if it was all butterflies but its not.. indifference's are inevitable but morals are all based on the economist

Re: TruthSpeaker – thank you!!!!!!!!!!!

Keep reading and parroting the opinions from CORPORATIONS (the same ppl she's commenting on!) like The MUFFington Post-Perez Hilton also decided he needed to respond to “Amanda Bynes calling me ugly” via 2, 2min youtube monologues. MOAR Britney meltdowns for the Perez, Huffington, ABC, CBS, MTV, CNN FAMILY to eat off of. HINT: L. BOOGIE covers that in this same song too, is it education you dislike?
How dense ARE mutherphuckers?
West HollyWooders or New York Liberals…you really think she’s mad you fly the rainbows at the celebrations? No it’s that the FEW who control the MANY ’outlets’ <i>ARE</I> gurl-men…who -created- the likes of RuPaul both metaphorically and literally. RuPaul isn’t there cause he wanted to be…CEOs did. durr

The words are "Commerce and GURU men", not girl men. Look it up.
LGBT folks do not have a copyright to the word "Pride", watch any reality show and you will see examples of excess pride for no apparent reason. (Why are the K sisters famous?)
Which leaves Drag Queens. Lauryn probably could have chosen better words but when taken in context, she's not totally off the mark. ESPECIALLY since she's thrown in the N word for good measure.
The song shines a light on the BS that's happening today. It's got an important message that's being missed because we are too sensitive.
Lighten up! There are real enemies out there.

"Bloggers" like you need to get your heads out of your asses and wake up to the reality that Lauryn Hill just summarized for you in her song.
But of course, the ignorant egotistical sheep will deny all truth.
Perez, you work and are paid to spread disinformation and dramatic propaganda.
How said, it's hypocrisy at it's lowest.
Long live Lauryn Hill!