Lauryn HillUnplugged

Stripped to the bone: 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 title phrase chanted like an incantation. 'Mystery of Iniquity' fires rapid-fire spoken-word that Kanye later interpolated on 'All Falls Down.' She walked into MTV Studios three months pregnant with no band, no setlist, no rehearsal, and the Unplugged format never recovered. Often set beside Springsteen's Nebraska for its raw nakedness. A$AP Rocky and Frank Ocean would later sample it. Bracing and brave.