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Live album by Lauryn Hill
Released May 7, 2002
Recorded July 21, 2001
Venue MTV Studios in New York
Genre
Folksoul
Length 106:36
Label Columbia
Producer
Lauryn HillAlex Coletti
Lauryn Hill chronology
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
(1998) MTV Unplugged No. 2.0
(2002)

MTV Unplugged No. 2.0 is a live album by American singer Lauryn Hill. The performance comes from her 2002 MTV Unplugged special recorded on July 21, 2001, at MTV Studios in Times Square, New York City. Hill abandoned the hip hop sounds of her debut album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (1998) in favor of folk and soul songs she performed with an acoustic guitar. The songs were interspersed with spoken interludes about her personal and artistic struggles.

MTV Unplugged No. 2.0 was met with mixed reviews. Most critics found Hill`s performances self-indulgent and repetitive, while some appreciated the album as a bold and sincere change in artistic direction. The album has since received retrospective acclaim by critics who have praised the album for its uniqueness and rawness, and a variety of hip hop, R&B and pop artists have cited it as an inspiration.

The album sold approximately 122,000 copies in its first week, debuting at number three on the Billboard 200. It has been certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America, having shipped one million copies in the United States. The song `Mystery of Iniquity` received a Grammy Award nomination for Best Female Rap Solo Performance, and was famously sampled by Kanye West on his 2004 song `All Falls Down`.

Music and lyrics
For MTV Unplugged No. 2.0, Hill departed from the hip hop sounds of her debut album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (1998) in favor of austerely performed acoustic soul and folk-based songs. She jokingly described herself as a `hip-hop folk singer`,[1] and according to Robert Hilburn, assumed the role of a folk singer accompanied only by her acoustic guitar.[2] Rather than singing any of her previous hits, Hill debuted all new songs in a folk style and, in between songs, spoke at length about her personal and artistic struggles.[3]

Track listing
All tracks are written by Lauryn Hill, except `So Much Things to Say`, a cover of the Bob Marley and the Wailers song written by Bob Marley

Disc one
No. Title Length
1. `Intro` 2:28
2. `Mr. Intentional` 6:58
3. `Adam Lives in Theory` 7:26
4. `Interlude 1` 1:55
5. `Oh Jerusalem` 8:54
6. `Interlude 2` 1:21
7. `Freedom Time` 4:59
8. `Interlude 3` 3:18
9. `I Find It Hard to Say (Rebel)` 6:50
10. `Just Like Water` 6:09
11. `Interlude 4` 1:41
12. `Just Want You Around` 4:36
13. `I Gotta Find Peace of Mind` 9:19
Disc two
No. Title Length
1. `Interlude 5` 12:12
2. `Mystery of Iniquity` 5:11
3. `Interlude 6` 1:42
4. `I Get Out` 5:17
5. `Interlude 7` 0:20
6. `I Remember` 3:46
7. `So Much Things to Say` 5:59
8. `The Conquering Lion` 3:20
9. `Outro` 2:57
Total length: 106:36
Personnel
Lauryn Hill – acoustic guitar, vocals, production
Julian Alexander – art direction
Adam Blackburn – recording, mixing
Alex Coletti – mixing, editing, film production on video broadcast
Joe DeMaio – direction on video broadcast
Max Feldman – recording assistance
Scott Gries – photography
Christopher Koch – audio post-editing technician
Mel Papaterpou – guitar technician
Sue Pelino – audio post-mixing technician
Herb Powers Jr. – mastering
Van Toffler – executive production on video broadcast