 In 1998, Franklin released her thirty-seventh studio album "A Rose Is Still a Rose".A breakaway from the adult contemporary sound of her previous releases, it saw her collaborating with many famed hip hop producers and rappers such as Lauryn Hill, Sean "Puffy" Combs, and Jermaine Dupri, and took her work further into the hip hop and modern-day R&B genre.The album went gold in US and was praised by most critics, who called it a return to form for Franklin.