In The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, I saw myself as the intimate partner doing wrong by Lauryn, and she made me consider how for all the differences between André and Big Boi, they shared in the same kind of misogynoir on their first two albums. (Particularly on the song “Jazzy Belle”: “. . . even Bo knew, that you got poked / like acupuncture patients while our nation is a boat.”) Miseducation had me expecting a lot more from my male heroes. A month later, OutKast dropped Aquemini.
