Lauryn Hill is addressing all accusations down to her tardiness at her own concerts in a 3,000-word essay that she published on Medium just two weeks after jazz musician Robert Glasper accused her of stealing his friends’ music and much more.

The first thing she addressed were the claimeds about her mistreating her band and “stealing” music for her classic album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. Glasper said Hill had “stolen all of his friends’ music” during the making of her album and claimed she threatened her band while on tour in 2008. The musicians who worked on Miseducation sued Hill over writing credits. The lawsuit was settled in 2001.

“I apologize for the delay in getting this posted, I was late in hearing about it. I understand this is long, but my last interview was over a decade ago,” wrote Hill. “These are my songs, musicians are brought in because of the masterful way that they play their instruments. You may be able to make suggestions, but you can’t write FOR me. I am the architect of my creative expression. No decisions are made without me.

However, Glasper begs to differ. He told “The Madd Hatta Morning Show” on Houston’s 97.9 The Box that other people wrote each song on her album and she took all the credit for them.

“She took the credit for making the classic album. Those songs were written by other people and they did not get their credit. You’ve already stolen all of my friends’ music. Miseducation was made by great musicians and producers that I know personally. You got a big hand off of music you didn’t even write,” he says.

Glasper, who used to be a member of Hill’s band, said she threatened to cut band members’ pay in half for not learning music at a fast enough pace.

“Every day she comes in and changes the show, changes what she wants to do. The last rehearsal, she doesn’t show up. Her manager comes in 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.’”

Hill responded to the pay cut rumors by saying she doesn’t remember something like that happening and would never do such a thing.

“If fees had been negotiated and confirmed without my knowledge, I may have asked for them to be adjusted. But I would never just cut a musician’s pay arbitrarily unless I had a legitimate reason,” she wrote.

And finally, Hill touches on her lateness to her own shows. “Me being late to shows isn’t because I don’t respect my fans or their time, but the contrary, It can be argued that I care too much, and insist on things being right,” she says. “I like to switch my show up regularly, change arrangements, add new songs, etc. This often leads to long sound checks, which leads to doors opening late, which leads to the show getting a late start. This element of perfectionism is about wanting the audience to experience the very best and most authentic musical experience they can from what I do.”

During her live shows, Hill remixes her classic records, but she says there’s a reason for that. “I remix my songs live because I haven’t released an album in several years,” she said. “There’s a ton of backstory as to why, but there’s no way I could continue to play the same songs over and over as long as I’ve been performing them without some variation and exploration. I’m not a robot. If I’d had additional music out, perhaps I would have kept them as they were. I didn’t, so I revise and rearrange them according to what I’m feeling in that moment.”

Read the full letter below.

I chose to wait until after the anniversary to post this. Thank you everyone for the Love! I’d like to clear a few things up.
-MLH

Full statement available here: https://t.co/kbtvoOWD2R

— Ms. Lauryn Hill (@MsLaurynHill) August 28, 2018