Lauryn HillUnplugged

Stripped-bare acoustic soul. Just Lauryn, her guitar, and a voice raspy from disuse. Sometimes cracking, sometimes soaring. 'I Gotta Find Peace of Mind' is an eight-minute spiritual reckoning, the phrase repeated as incantation. 'Mystery of Iniquity' fires rapid-fire spoken-word critique that Kanye West later interpolated on 'All Falls Down.' She arrived at MTV Studios three months pregnant, no band, no setlist, no rehearsal. And the Unplugged format was never the same. Compared to Springsteen's Nebraska for its commercial alienation and emotional nakedness. A$AP Rocky and Frank Ocean later sampled it.