After a viral Instagram post revisited her career, Lauryn Hill decided to set the record straight on why her 1998 solo debut The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill is her only studio album.

"When you’re inspired and desire to be principled, what doesn’t get talked about enough is the drain… nor the challenge to find safety so that you can create with integrity," Hill wrote over the weekend, responding to why she disappeared at her peak.

First things first: Hill does not need to explain herself.

Hill became an industry darling at a young age, working as a child actress on soap operas and Hollywood movies before busting out as a member of the socially-conscious Fugees, earning multiple Grammy awards before ever going solo.

Her debut solo album finally came in 1998, debuting as No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart with the highest first-week sales for a female artist at the time, and became the first female rapper to be certified diamond. Miseducation's lead single, "Doo Wop (That Thing)" also debuted at No. 1, making Hill the first artist whose first entries on both charts debuted at the top. She won Album of the Year at the 41st Grammy Awards, the first female rapper to do so, and she became the first woman to win five Grammys in a single year.

For years, fans have debated the reasons why Hill never recorded another album, aside from her Unplugged live album, as Miseducation is a classic that still appears in the top albums on Apple Music and other streaming platforms.

Over the weekend, the discussion was once again brought to the forefront after Instagram page FRAIM shared a post about why Hill never released another album after Miseducation, which went viral due to the neo-soul singer responding in the comments.

"I disagree," she wrote before a lengthy explanation she did not have to give.

"Artists go through phases, creativity requires expression, exploration and experimentation. There were people who hated the 'Unplugged' album and yet some today swear by its significance. I was like a Harriet Tubman figure in some respects running to speak difficult truths to power before certain forces tried to close those doors. If it was so easy to do, where is that expression now on the world stage?"

Check out her full response below:

"When you’re inspired and desire to be principled, what doesn’t get talked about enough is the drain… nor the challenge to find safety so that you can create with integrity. Most see opportunity as dollars only and often exclude the ‘sense’. 'The Score' nor 'the Miseducation' were made because we were ‘allowed’ to represent what we did, we fought for every inch. Wild success can cause greed that begins to denegrate the art for the money. We’re people living through all this. These conversations should allow for more nuance. Artists go through phases, creativity requires expression, exploration and experimentation. There were people who hated the Unplugged album and yet some today swear by its significance. I was like a Harriet Tubman figure in some respects running to speak difficult truths to power before certain forces tried to close those doors. If it was so easy to do, where is that expression now on the world stage? Systems fear what they can’t control. Creativity is most potent when it’s free. If I did nothing else, I introduced standards and possibilities to a generation that didn’t know they could operate on that level before then. I am often doing things outside the support of the system before people can even realize what I’ve done. Another artist who values inspiration then recognizes IT’S value and re-presents it to an audience then ready to receive it."