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Lauryn Hill's mugshot before serving her time behind bars.
Lauryn Hill is out of jail and celebrating her freedom with a new single called "Consumerism."
The five-time Grammy winning singer served three months in a minimum security prison in Danbury, Conn., for failing to pay federal income taxes.
“I can confirm she was released, and she's doing well," her lawyer Nathan Hochman told the Daily News Friday. “Her court case is now 100 percent done. She has one year of supervised release, and then she'll be completely done."
Federal prosecutors charged the former Fugees singer with failing to pay taxes on more than $1 million in income since 2005.
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Lauryn Hill performs at L'Olympia in Paris, France in April 2012.
The new single from the South Orange, N.J., resident was posted on her Tumblr blog late Thursday and is available on iTunes.
"Consumerism is running through 'em like a tumor in 'em," she rhymes.
"Consumerism is part of some material I was trying to finish before I had to come in,” Hill said in a statement accompanying the new music. “We did our best to eek (eke) out a mix via verbal and emailed direction."
"I felt the need to discuss the underlying socio-political, cultural paradigm as I saw it," she said.
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Lauryn Hill walking from federal court in Newark, N.J. in April.
Hill, 38, rose to worldwide fame as a member of The Fugees with Wyclef Jean.
The group's Grammy-winning 1996 album "The Score" included the smash hit singles "Ready or Not," "No Woman, No Cry," and "Killing Me Softly."
She began her solo career in 1998 with the critically acclaimed album "The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill" but later dropped out of the spotlight.
The mother of six has five children with Rohan Marley, a son of reggae superstar Bob Marley.
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