Hip hop legend Lauryn Hill has been released from a Connecticut prison after serving three months for tax evasion.
Entertainment Weekly is reporting Hill walked out of the Danbury minimum security prison early Friday a free woman and the author of a new track via her official Tumblr account called "Consumerism."
The magazine reports the tune was recorded before she went away and was mixed while she was serving her sentence.
"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," Hill explained in one of her latest Tumblr posts. Entertainment Weekly describes "Consumerism" as a natural extension of "Neurotic Society," which Hill released just before she reported to prison.
The magazine reports the release is the first of a series of songs that will appear under the header Letters From Exile.
"Letters From Exile is material written from a certain space, in a certain place," Hill wrote. "I felt the need to discuss the underlying socio-political, cultural paradigm as I saw it. I haven't been able to watch the news too much recently, so I'm not hip on everything going on. But inspiration of this sort is a kind of news in and of itself, and often times contains an urgency that precedes what happens. I couldn't imagine it not being relevant. Messages like these I imagine find their audience, or their audience finds them, like water seeking it's level."
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