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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.
Wyclef Jean
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Wyclef Jean
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 17
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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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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 like to go against the grain, against what's out there. Every day is like a challenge.
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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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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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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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