Wyclef Jean Presents the Carnival (COLUMBIA, 1997)

This solo album, released shortly after The Score, sold over five million copies and features “Gone Till November,” a quintessential Wyclef Jean single. A perfect fusion of rap, reggae, Son Cubano, pop, soul and Haitian music, with a singrap formula that Wyclef honed and now serves as the template for many like-minded artists. It was ranked as one of the “100 Best Albums of the Nineties” by Rolling Stone.