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Lauryn Hill is smiling a little more these days.  A magistrate recently revised Hill’s release order in order to allow the singer/rapper to tour during the holidays.

 

Last year, Hill pled guilty to failure to pay $2.3 million in taxes for years 2005 to 2009.  In July 2013, Hill was sentenced to serve three months in prison and three months of supervised home detention. On October 4, Hill was released a few days prior to her scheduled three month release date due to good behavior.

 

Besides feeling elated about being a free woman, Hill also received good news that she’ll be able to do a concert tour between November 15 to December 31.   Of course Ms Hill will still have to report her daily itinerary to her assigned probation officer and start the remainder of house arrest on January 1, 2014.

 

 

In music news, Lauryn Hill entered back into society with a new song called “Consumerism”.  She explained that this was track she’d started recording prior to her serving her prison sentence.

 

“Consumerism is part of some material I was trying to finish before I had to come in. We did our best to eke out a mix via verbal and emailed direction, thanks to the crew of surrogate ears on the other side,” Hill says in a press release. “Letters From Exile is material written from a certain space, in a certain place. I felt the need to discuss the underlying socio-political, cultural paradigm as I saw it. I haven’t been able to watch the news too much recently, so I’m not hip on everything going on. But inspiration of this sort is a kind of news in and of itself, and often times contains an urgency that precedes what happens. I couldn’t imagine it not being relevant. Messages like these I imagine find their audience, or their audience finds them, like water seeking it’s level”.

 

Take a listen below and let us know what you think!