Robert Glasper Trashes Lauryn Hill For Stealing Music And Cutting Pay

Hell hath no fury like a musician whose pay was cut in half right before a show.

On Wednesday, jazz pianist Robert Glasper opened up about working with Lauryn Hill during an interview on “The Madd Hatta Morning Show” on Houston’s KBXX, and called the singer out for yanking musicians around regarding pay and stealing their music.

“We rehearse a whole week, maybe 10 hours a day,” he said, describing working with Hill on a show she was paid half-a-million dollars for. “Every day she comes in and changes the show, changes what she wants to do. Completely. The last rehearsal, she doesn’t show up. Her manager shows up and says, ‘Lauryn’s not really feeling the way you guys have been learning the music, so we’re gonna cut your pay in half.’ The last rehearsal. The day before the show. ‘We’re gonna cut your pay in half.’”

In addition to the last-minute change to promised pay, Glasper also accused Hill, 43, of firing musicians on a whim, saying she’d audition musicians when she arrived in a city even if she had already been touring with a band.

But these allegations of mistreatment were far from the worst thing Glasper accused Hill of doing. He claimed she stole some of the music featured on her classic album, “The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill,” and passed it off as her own.

“You can’t come into a situation, especially when you’ve already stolen all my friend’s music,” he said. “’Miseducation’ was made by great musicians and producers that I know, personally. So you got a big head off of music you didn’t even write.”

But what seemed to bother Glasper most was despite working with so many other musical legends, Hill was the one who stood out to him as the least cool.

“I’ve met Stevie Wonder and hung out with Stevie Wonder,” he said. “I’ve met Quincy Jones and hung out with Quincy Jones. I’ve met Herbie Hancock, hung out with Herbie Hancock. If those three people can be cool, Lauryn Hill should be able to be cool. You haven’t done enough to be the way you are. You just have not. The one thing you did that was great, you didn’t do.”

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