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From Fugee to felon: how Pras betrayed his country'

From the moment the Fugees shot to fame in the mid-90s, Prakazrel Pras Michel was discounted as an incidental member of the hip-hop superstars. He was the unremarkable New Jersey rhyme spitter by way of Brooklyn who was lucky enough to be a high school classmate of the mesmerizing Lauryn Hill and a cousin to mercurial Wyclef Jean. On the group's breakout album The Score, Michel's eight-bar features were minor contributions, relative to Hill's adroitness as an emcee and balladeer and Jean's compositional polymathy.

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Freestyle Fellowship Rapper P.E.A.C.E. Has Died

Mtulazaji "P.E.A.C.E." Davis, founding member of Los Angeles hip-hop group Freestyle Fellowship, has died; no cause of death was disclosed.

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Freestyle Fellowship Rapper P.E.A.C.E. Has Died

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