Editing Lauryn Hill (section)

===2004–2009: Sporadic touring and recording===
[[File:LaurynHill.jpg|thumb|Hill performing in 2005]]
In 2004, Hill contributed a new song, "The Passion", to ''[[The Passion of the Christ: Songs]]''. A remix version with [[John Legend]] of his "[[So High (John Legend song)|So High]]" ended up receiving a Grammy Award nomination for [[Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals|Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals]]. Around this time, Hill began selling a [[pay-per-view]] music video of the song "Social Drugs" through her website.<ref name="mtv.com">{{cite news |last=Patel |first=Joseph |url=http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1484249/20040109/hill_lauryn.jhtml?headlines=true |title=The Misvaluation of Lauryn Hill: $15 Music Video Posted Online |publisher=[[MTV News]] |date=January 9, 2004 |access-date=November 13, 2011 |archive-date=January 15, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090115014847/http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1484249/20040109/hill_lauryn.jhtml?headlines=true |url-status=dead }}</ref> Those who purchase the $15 video would only be able to view it three times before it expired. In addition to the video, Hill began selling autographed posters and [[Instant film|Polaroids]] through her website, with some items listed at upwards of $500.<ref name="mtv.com"/>

For the first time since 1997, the Fugees performed in September 2004 at ''[[Dave Chappelle's Block Party]]'' in the [[Bedford–Stuyvesant, Brooklyn|Bedford–Stuyvesant]] neighborhood of [[Brooklyn]]. The concert featured Hill's nearly [[a cappella]] rendition of "Killing Me Softly". The event was recorded by director [[Michel Gondry]] and was released on March 3, 2006, to universal acclaim.<ref>{{cite web|title=Block Party|url=https://www.metacritic.com/movie/block-party|website=[[Metacritic]]|access-date=June 8, 2013|archive-date=January 16, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140116213147/http://www.metacritic.com/movie/block-party|url-status=live}}</ref> The Fugees also appeared at [[BET Awards 2005]] during June 2005, where they opened the show with a 12-minute set. One track, "Take It Easy", was leaked online and thereafter was released as an Internet single in late September. It peaked at No. 40 on the ''Billboard'' [[Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs|R&B Chart]].<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Fugees – Chart History (Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles)|url={{BillboardURLbyName|artist=fugees|chart=R&B/Hip-Hop Songs}}|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|access-date=June 8, 2013}}</ref>

In 2005, she told ''[[USA Today]]'', "If I make music now, it will only be to provide information to my own children. If other people benefit from it, then so be it."<ref name=usatoday>{{cite news|title=Lauryn Hill returns to the limelight|url=http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/people/2005-07-12-lauryn-hill_x.htm?POE=LIFISVA|newspaper=[[USA Today]]|access-date=August 11, 2013|date=July 12, 2005|agency=[[Associated Press]]|archive-date=December 28, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131228011330/http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/people/2005-07-12-lauryn-hill_x.htm?POE=LIFISVA|url-status=live}}</ref> When asked how she now felt about the songs on ''2.0'', she stated "a lot of the songs were transitional. The music was about how I was feeling at the time, even though I was documenting my distress as well as my bursts of joy."<ref name="usatoday" />

The Fugees embarked on a European tour in late 2005.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Reunited Fugees Plan Euro Tour|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/61243/reunited-fugees-plan-euro-tour|magazine=[[Billboard (magazine)|Billboard]]|access-date=June 11, 2013|archive-date=October 1, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141001152111/http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/61243/reunited-fugees-plan-euro-tour|url-status=live}}</ref> Old tensions between Hill and the other members of the group soon resurfaced, and the reunion ended before an album could be recorded; Jean and Michel both blamed Hill for the split.<ref name="people" /> Hill reportedly demanded to be addressed by everyone, including her bandmates, as "Ms. Hill"; she also considered changing her moniker to "Empress".<ref name="people" /> Hill's tardiness was also cited as a contributing factor.<ref name="people" />

Hill began touring on her own, although to mixed reviews; often arriving late to concerts (sometimes by over two hours), performing unpopular reconfigurations of her songs and sporting an exaggerated appearance.<ref name="people" /><ref name=MTV2007>{{cite news|url=http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1566531/20070807/hill_lauryn.jhtml?rsspartner=unknown|title=Lauryn Hill Plays Bizarre Show in NYC|publisher=[[MTV News]]|date=August 7, 2007|access-date=November 13, 2011|archive-date=January 14, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090114111605/http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1566531/20070807/hill_lauryn.jhtml?rsspartner=unknown|url-status=dead}}</ref> On some occasions, fans booed her and left early.<ref name=hiatus>{{cite news|title=Label Source Says Lauryn Hill 'On Hiatus', Rohan Marley Says 'She's Always Working'|url=http://www.xxlmag.com/xxl-magazine/2008/08/label-source-says-lauryn-hill-on-hiatus-rohan-marley-says-shes-always-working/|magazine=[[XXL Magazine]]|access-date=August 11, 2013|date=August 5, 2008|archive-date=June 15, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130615125040/http://www.xxlmag.com/xxl-magazine/2008/08/label-source-says-lauryn-hill-on-hiatus-rohan-marley-says-shes-always-working/|url-status=live}}</ref> In June 2007, [[Sony Music|Sony Records]] said Hill had been recording through the past decade, had accumulated considerable unreleased material and had re-entered the studio with the goal of making a new album.<ref>{{cite news |last=Reid |first=Shaheem |url=http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1563151/20070621/hill_lauryn.jhtml?rsspartner=rssFeedBurner |title=Lauryn Hill Suits Up For Second LP After Breaking The Ice With Penguin Song |publisher=[[MTV News]] |date=June 22, 2007 |access-date=November 13, 2011 |archive-date=January 15, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090115064410/http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1563151/20070621/hill_lauryn.jhtml?rsspartner=rssFeedBurner |url-status=dead }}</ref> Later that same year, an album titled ''Ms. Hill'', which featured cuts from ''Miseducation'', various soundtrack contributions and other "unreleased" songs, was released. It features guest appearances from D'Angelo, [[Rah Digga]] and [[John Forté]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0014FC29C |title=Ms. Hill: Lauryn Hill: Music |website=Amazon |access-date=November 13, 2011 |archive-date=October 3, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201003195325/https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0014FC29C |url-status=live }}</ref> Also in June 2007, Hill released a new song, "[[Lose Myself]]", on the soundtrack to the film ''[[Surf's Up (film)|Surf's Up]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/surfs-up-mw0000578388|title=Surf's Up – Original Soundtrack|website=[[AllMusic]]|access-date=June 9, 2013|archive-date=June 13, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130613103533/http://www.allmusic.com/album/surfs-up-mw0000578388|url-status=live}}</ref>

In early 2008, Marley and Hill's fifth child, Sara, was born.<ref name="people"/> The couple were not living together, although Marley considered them "spiritually together" even while listing himself as single on social media.<ref name="people" /> Hill later said that she and Marley "have [had] a long and complex history about which many inaccuracies have been reported since the beginning" and that they both valued their privacy.<ref name="usweekly"/> By August 2008, Hill was living with her mother and children in her hometown of South Orange, New Jersey.<ref name=people>{{cite news|last=McGee|first=Tiffany|title=Whatever Happened to ... Lauryn Hill?|url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20221692,00.html|work=[[People (magazine)|People]]|access-date=June 12, 2013|date=August 18, 2008|archive-date=April 19, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130419151359/http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20221692,00.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

Reports in mid-2008 claimed that Columbia Records then believed Hill to be on hiatus.<ref name="people" /> Marley disputed these claims, telling an interviewer that Hill has enough material for several albums: "She writes music in the bathroom, on toilet paper, on the wall. She writes it in the mirror if the mirror smokes up. She writes constantly. This woman does not sleep".<ref name="hiatus" /> One of the few public appearances Hill made in 2008 was at a [[Martha Stewart]] book signing in New Jersey, perplexing some in the press.<ref>{{cite news|title=Lauryn Hill to Return to the Stage at Montreux Jazz Festival|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/lauryn-hill-to-return-to-the-stage-at-montreux-jazz-festival-20090403|work=[[Rolling Stone (magazine)|Rolling Stone]]|access-date=June 8, 2013|date=April 3, 2009|archive-date=February 2, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130202194310/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/lauryn-hill-to-return-to-the-stage-at-montreux-jazz-festival-20090403|url-status=live}}</ref>

In April 2009, it was reported that Hill would engage in a 10-day tour of European summer festivals during mid-July of that year. She performed two shows for the tour and passed out on stage during the start of her second performance and left the stage. She refused to provide refunds for angry consumers.<ref name=2009tour>{{cite news |first=Daniel |last=Kreps |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/lauryn-hill-cancels-european-tour-cites-health-reasons-20090610 |title=Lauryn Hill Cancels European Tour, Cites Health Reasons |magazine=[[Rolling Stone (magazine)|Rolling Stone]] |date=June 10, 2009 |access-date=August 11, 2013 |archive-date=February 3, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130203080827/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/lauryn-hill-cancels-european-tour-cites-health-reasons-20090610 |url-status=live }}</ref> On June 10, Hill's management informed the promoters of the [[Stockholm Jazz Festival]], which she was scheduled to headline, that she would not be performing due to unspecified "health reasons".<ref name="2009tour" /> Shortly afterward, the rest of the tour was canceled as well.<ref name="2009tour" />