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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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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 lived in a hut with no roof, and I rode to school on a donkey. I used to shoot birds with a slingshot to cook for dinner. Now I prefer to get my food from KFC.
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Keep in mind: true revolution is only seven people, right?
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I think the greatest thing about America is the American Dream.
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I do music for the love of it, and I've been doing it from a very young age: about 11.
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I'm the hip-hop Quincy Jones of today
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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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Me and my father went through a war period where we wasn't talking. He wanted me to go to theology school - I didn't want to go. I wanted to do music. I told him I was a minister through music.
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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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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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I don't see no more Billie Holidays, no more Marvin Gayes, no more Smokey Robinsons. I don't even see no more Nirvanas.
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The reason why we're warriors is that we rise to the occasion anyone that's felt like the system put them down, and then they rose to the occasion, they're a warrior. It's not about whether you come from the hood or you come from the suburbs, you know what I mean? It's about reality and life.
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My songs are really never titled. Sometimes I call it one thing. then I change it
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I've never really [written] something that was inspired.
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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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I know that the nice shines I have on is going to pass. The nice cars will pass. All that will stay is the music and the work. That's where I get the inspiration to help people out and work
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You might see a female, and she triggers something, or you see an old lady walking down the street, she triggers something. You go to Africa, you see the vibes, that triggers something.
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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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I'm cheap, and I'm proud of it!
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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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