"Fu-Gee-La" - The Fugees (Refugee Camp)
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Topic: "Fu-Gee-La" - The Fugees (Refugee Camp)
Posted By: Todd Ireland
Subject: "Fu-Gee-La" - The Fugees (Refugee Camp)
Date Posted: 13 January 2012 at 12:16am
According to the database, the cassette single version of The Fugees' "Fu-Gee-La" is uncensored, while the CD single version is censored. At present, the database lists several CD entries with a "45 version" comment, but there's no specific mention as to whether these discs contain the censored or uncensored single version.
I've listened to "Fu-Gee-La" as it appears on my copy of the R&B: From Doo-Wop to Hip-Hop 2 CD set (Columbia/Epic/Legacy 65801) and I'm assuming it's the uncensored cassette single version because the "n-word" can be heard at the 1:44 mark.
Can anyone confirm whether the other 45 version CD appearances are censored or uncensored?
(On an unrelated side note, the full artist credit for this song is The Fugees (Refugee Camp)
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Posted By: edtop40
Date Posted: 13 January 2012 at 5:01pm
my commercial cassingle issued as ruffhouse 78195 contains
the below tracks...
1-fu-gee-la (album version) (no listed run time; 4:15
actual)
2-how many mics (no listed; 4:22 actual)
the cassingle is uncensored and has the N reference at the
1:44 mark....
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edtop40
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Posted By: Smokin' TomGary
Date Posted: 15 January 2012 at 7:31pm
Promo single SAMPCD-3355-1 has two cuts:
Album Version Radio Edit 3:31 actual. "n" word at 1:42
North Side Mix Radio Edit 3:49 actual. "n" word at 1:54
The Clean LP Version appears as cut #4 on the promo single for "Killing Me Softly" CSK-7847 with a listed and actual time of 4:05. "n" word edited out.
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Posted By: aaronk
Date Posted: 09 November 2015 at 10:41am
I noticed Pat included Smokin' Tom's promo CD info for "Fu-Gee-La," but the above disc might be a non-US release. The disc I am looking at online for SAMPCD 3555 1 says "Made In Austria" on the disc itself. I've searched high and low trying to find a promo CD single for this one, and I've never seen a US pressing that has the standard "CSK" catalog number prefix. Unless someone can confirm that the above disc is a US pressing, I'm still of the belief that no US promo CD was released for "Fu-Gee-La"; however, stock copies with the barcode punched out do exist, and the track does appear on the US promo CD for "Killing Me Softly."
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Posted By: Smokin' TomGary
Date Posted: 09 November 2015 at 5:39pm
My CD does not state the country of origin, however, on the rear cardboard cover it does imply distribution by Sony in Madrid.
It has deadwax code of S1100335517-0101 22 A1 and IFPI L552
Stamped onto the CD disc itself is IFPI 941C.
http://i.imgur.com/OY6t4WA.jpg - Rear Cover
http://i.imgur.com/A5K3xtA.jpg - CD
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Posted By: aaronk
Date Posted: 09 November 2015 at 5:45pm
I may be misreading the text, because it's a little blurry. What does it
say in the long red stripe, last sentence of the second line? I could be
mistaken, but it looks like "Made In A......"
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Posted By: Smokin' TomGary
Date Posted: 10 November 2015 at 4:49pm
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"Austria". I didn't notice that before. I consider myself an experienced engineer, but photography to me is point-and-click. It isn't always pretty. I guess this CD was made in Austria and distributed in Madrid.
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Posted By: aaronk
Date Posted: 10 November 2015 at 5:10pm
Darn! I was really hoping to find existence of a US promo, but if you
don't have one, Jim doesn't have one, and 10 years of searching hasn't
turned up anything, I'd say my chances are slim.
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Aaron Kannowski
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http://www.919thepeak.com" rel="nofollow - 91.9 The Peak - Classic Hip Hop
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Posted By: chendagam
Date Posted: 10 March 2025 at 8:13pm
Any thoughts on why a promo CD single was never released
for this song? Were The Fugees just breaking into the
mainstream due to heavy rotation on MTV at the time so
maybe Sony had no need for additional promotion? What was
radio airplay for this song like back in 1996? Was
"Killing Me Softly" getting more airplay? I am going from
memory but I think "Killing Me Softly" was the follow up
single correct? Maybe that's why they just tacked it onto
the KMS promo.
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Posted By: aaronk
Date Posted: 10 March 2025 at 10:01pm
I’m sure it was promoted, but Columbia sent out retail copies with a hole
punch through the barcode. This was not totally out of the norm, as there
are other examples where this happened.
Urban radio played it but not top 40/CHR.
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Posted By: aaronk
Date Posted: 11 March 2025 at 7:03am
For a little deeper research, the "Fu-Gee-La" CD single came out at the very end of 1995 and sold well enough to enter the top 10 on the rap chart in January 1996. Urban radio started spinning it lightly at the end of January, and BET was also playing the video in heavy rotation (no regular MTV rotation). By the end of February, it peaked on urban radio in the mid-20s, so it never became huge on that format, but that's probably largely because the last week of February "Killing Me Softly" debuted on the urban chart at #39, shooting up to #13 the following week. That song was all the buzz at the time, and there was no stopping it.
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Aaron Kannowski
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http://www.919thepeak.com" rel="nofollow - 91.9 The Peak - Classic Hip Hop
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