She used to talk about it in the studio a lot. Because you’re coming off this success of the Fugees and you’re a big star at the time, everyone’s like, “You don’t need to have a baby.” was a lot of that going on. She really had no vision of what the song needed to be, but she just had an idea I need to do this song.
She had a song idea in her head – she was still pregnant at the time with her first son – and she had a song idea in her head, but she didn’t know how she wanted the music to sound. I played it for Lauryn she started crying. I had a little studio set up in the top floor of this place and I made the track there. “To Zion” is a track that I made in me and my wife’s brownstone we had in Brooklyn, which was really hers and I basically stayed in it. Lauryn Hill, “To Zion” ( The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, 1998) In this excerpt from an RBMA Radio interview with Julian Brimmers, Pope runs down some key tracks from throughout his diverse career. He now serves as COO, and has played a major role in recent albums from West while also working with artists like Big Sean, A$AP Rocky, Pusha T and The Weeknd. Music in 2012 as a partner and the head of A&R. After lending a hand to Jay Z’s 2006 Kingdom Come LP, Pope was eventually recruited to join Kanye West’s G.O.O.D. Dre’s Aftermath label, contributing to albums from Eminem, 50 Cent, The Game, Busta Rhymes and others.
In the years that followed, Pope worked in A&R at Warner Bros., composed television and film scores while serving as a staff producer for Hans Zimmer and became a core member of the team at Dr. While living in New York, he was tapped to produce for Wyclef Jean and the Fugees, and eventually linked with Lauryn Hill, playing an instrumental role in the creation of her celebrated 1998 album, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. Originally from Boston, producer and songwriter Che Pope got his start in the music industry back in 1994, working with veteran producer Teddy Riley.