“Everything is Everything” by Lauryn Hill

"Everything Is Everything" closed out the singles from The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, arriving in May 1999 as the third and last one pulled from her 1998 debut. Hill produced it and wrote it with Johari Newton, setting out to speak to the injustice and hardship facing kids in America's inner cities, and she does it over a groove that slides between hip-hop, soul and something almost classical, thanks to Quartette Indigo's strings. The piano belongs to a 19-year-old John Legend, making his first appearance on a commercial record.

The Sanji-directed video turned New York City into a vinyl record spinning on a turntable, with Hill walking its streets; it earned a Grammy nod for Best Short Form Music Video, and Pitchfork later counted it among the best videos of the 1990s.

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