Lauryn Hill wrote and produced ‘A Rose Is Still A Rose’ for Aretha Franklin, she also directed the music video

Months before Lauryn Hill released her album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (August 25, 1998), she wrote and produced Aretha Franklin‘s 1998 single ‘A Rose Is Still A Rose’, which was off Aretha Franklin’s 37th studio album ‘A Rose Is Still A Rose’. Lauryn Hill also directed the ‘A Rose Is Still A Rose’ music video in which she makes a cameo in with Faith Evans, Changing Faces, and more R&B singers.

The song peaked at No. 26 on the Billboard Hot 100.

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