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You know how they say "You can't have it all?" Well, the Fugees have come remarkably close to turning that truism on its head. The Score is the complete hip-hop album for the mid '90s. On one hand, their eclectic musical and lyrical points of reference posit them in the De La Soul/Basehead organic school, but they hold fiercely to the braggadocio/"sucka MC" tradition that is at the roots of rap. While the threesome are on the conscious tip, they avoid the clichés that weigh down the protests of so many of their overbearing, off-centric brethren. All those skirmishes between the hip-hop and R&B camps are blithely brushed aside by the Fugees, who jack up Roberta Flack's "Killing Me Softly with His Song." --Steven Stolder