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

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

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

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