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There's not a hip-hop artist that didn't snatch of piece of Bob Marley. It's totally impossible.
Wyclef Jean
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Wyclef Jean
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 17
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What I'm trying to do is break the genre from what is rap and what is music.
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I think the greatest thing about America is the American Dream.
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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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You get quick money, it's beautiful, there's sunshine, but at the end of the day, you find out it's all a masquerade, baby. It's not what it seems.
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The reason why we love America so much is America is the only place you can actually come in and wave your flag.
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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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The voice of an Angel, the Heart of a Lamb, the spirit of a Lioness, the presence of a Goddess, love you R.I.P Whitney Houston.
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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 grew up in a Caribbean family household, so the parents are always right. My father smacked me up til I was 20. It was a strict household.
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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 I lose touch with the audience and the reality of what life really is, I'll be Vanilla Ice or something.
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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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No matter what I'm goin' through, I could still exist.
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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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My daddy was a minister, my grandfather was a voodoo priest, my uncle was a mason I was raised with a lot of studies.
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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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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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On Sundays I give the sermons like my dad used to give. I utilize it as a revolutionary tool, as a thinking tool, as a tool where I can recruit people, DM them, and give them information that I feel that they need going forward.
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I lived in the projects and the ghetto, and turned the negative into a positive.
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If I can't take five years out to serve my country as president, then everything I've been singing about, like equal rights, doesn't mean anything.
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