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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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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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Every generation is gonna keep changing, and you just have to embrace the change.
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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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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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It's important, when you see darkness, to understand that there's light ahead of that, and I'm the living testimony of that, you dig?
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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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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 do music for the love of it, and I've been doing it from a very young age: about 11.
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My dad was in the hood, he was a minister, and he would always put churches in the ghetto.
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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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Mama, you know you raised me with no father figure. I wanna take this time to thank you, even though I'm doing life.
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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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I think it's cool to do stuff in a different language. Basically, I learned English through listening to rap. A lot of people think it's funny. But it's true I used to try to get the accents.
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I always want to know what's wrong with you, why you ain't smiling. That's just my character I just love people and want to see people having a good time.
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I've never really [written] something that was inspired.
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