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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.
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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For everybody who lost somebody out there and stuff, when you need therapy, music is the best way.
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I haven't accomplished nothing yet - I have a long way to go.
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I'm the hip-hop Quincy Jones of today
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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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My parents were Christian.
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I'm like Cab Calloway: I love the entertainment, and I've loved entertaining people ever since I was little.
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When I rap, I get to express myself in a way where putting words together is like poetry, and sometimes it's better to talk in certain expressions than sing, you know? So I love, I love to rhyme when I want to express certain things.
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My battle raps couldn't get me groceries from the supermarket.
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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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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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It will be true work that the kids can follow, as opposed to a facade of you doin' something, and you're doin' nothing.
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I've known Clinton for probably the last year that he was in office and stuff. The vibe that I always got from Clinton was, you-know, he never gave me a president-vibe.
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I was looking for Quincy Jones, that's who I was obsessed with. Watching Mike [Jackson], I always knew that I had to be a showman on stage, because when people come to you live you always want them to come back. You gotta give them something to remember.
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I want to be part of a different kind of celebrity, one that thinks not just about charity but policy.
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That's the best way to feed the human mind. That's how Bob Marley did it. He never put it in your face. After you got the groove, you were just singing the hooks, because you thought it was cool.
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The first thing you must learn is to always treat a man and a woman with total respect and honor, 'cause if you do that, the legacy you will leave behind will be work.
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If you go in the ring and box and you're angry, you're gonna lose the match.
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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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At the end of the day, just know that God made you, so you can be your own individual, and don't let people give you that peer pressure.
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