Lauryn Hill is to be given special dispensation to perform and tour during what should have been three months home detention following time served in jail for failing to pay taxes on her earnings.
Her attorney, Nathan Hochman, told reporters that Hill has permission to tour between November 15 and December 31, after which she must serve the remainder of her home detention.
Hill was released a few days early on October 4 having been sentenced in July to three months in a minimum security correctional facility. As a condition of her being allowed to perform, she must provide her probation officer “a detailed itinerary, including the dates, cities, and hotels where she will be staying” while on tour.
A day before her release, Hill put out a new single, Consumerism, which was written and recorded before she entered prison and mixed while she was detained. In a press release, she said: “Consumerism is part of some material I was trying to finish before I had to come in. We did our best to eek out a mix via verbal and emailed direction, thanks to the crew of surrogate ears on the other side.”
The song had racked up more than 290,000 plays on the Soundcloud website by Monday (October 7) and will appear on her next album Letters From Exile.
