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My grandfather was a voodoo priest. A lot of my life dealt with spirituality. I can close my eyes and remember where I come from.
Wyclef Jean
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Wyclef Jean
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 17
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Wyclef is a musician that tried to unite as many musicians at once as possible. I am trying to be successful at that. The greatest challenge is that, I just got arrested for protesting in NYC for cutting the school budgets... And I think that it's important to stand up. Schools are important.
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My accomplishment has helped millions of kids see that they can come from a poor family and go somewhere, make something out of themselves. Ive been doing it for seven years professionally.
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I always look outside.
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A lot of my music is very reggae- driven. Half of my life Bob Marley was all I listened to.
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When you enter the realm of politics, you don't enter it because you want to be popular. When I want to be popular, I pull on a guitar and sing a song.
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For me, before I go on stage, it all depends. Might be a girl, might be an edible, might be a verse, might be somebody mixing something in my drink without me knowing - hopefully that won't happen tonight.
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Keep in mind: true revolution is only seven people, right?
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I've been communicating with the Fugees, and it feels a lot better now than it did three or four years ago.
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I've never really [written] something that was inspired.
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It was important to me to go back to the grungy, because all of a sudden you get excited again, 'cause there's another whole dimension of 'Clef that you wasn't expecting to hear.
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In the beginning I had women problems, 'cause you know, I represent for the guys. But I was actin' a fool, whilin' out. I'm not sayin' I don't while out anymore. I'm not gonna lie to you.
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I'm not going away fast I've been around for a while, and plan to be around for a while more.
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What happens is we're all gonna return to dirt, so at the end of the day we're all equal.
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I'm the hip-hop Quincy Jones of today
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I feel that life is short, so we should be disciplined, but at the same time we should have a good time.
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My father being a Caribbean minister, one day I stole the radio. The radio that I stole, I took it to school, showing off how big this boom box was and how bad I was at the time. Once my father figured out where I left the radio, he then got his belt and he walked me, he beat me all the way to where I had hid the radio, and with the boom box.
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No matter how far you go, if you can't go back to the essence, you're not sayin' nothin'. The essence for me is hip-hop. But the hip-hop community I came up in isn't a loyal community.
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When you find the talent, it's always raw, and when you put the talent in the formula, you get the Knocks.
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What a lot of people don't know is that Wyclef started off as a battle rapper, when he decided that he would rhyme.
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Haiti is my country. The same way the Beatles are received in England - that's how Wyclef Jean is received in Haiti, do you know what I mean?
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