Their remake of "Killing Me Softly" was the hit, but that´s only the beginning of the story. A hip-hop trio whose talents reach out into the world of the pop song (Wyclef Jean is a fine guitar player, and Lauryn Hill´s a heck of a singer), the Fugees are also all distinctive, inventive rappers--you find yourself waiting for each of them to take the next verse in turn. The beats are the familiar crossed-armed boom-bip, but the group´s understated grooves and subtle effects lie low in the mix. Aside from two kicky covers of classics (the other is Marley´s "No Woman, No Cry"), The Score´s focus is on the stars´ rhyming with the free-form grace of performance poets and showing that they´ve thought deeply about the issues they raise