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When the Fugees were big, we made a whole lot of money, and what happened was that I saved my money and never spent it.
Wyclef Jean
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Wyclef Jean
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 17
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When I'm rhyming it's all in my head... Like the slaves, when they were picking cotton, they would block out their minds. They would sing.
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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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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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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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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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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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I decided to do what I do when I was 2 years old. At 2 years old, you know, I heard the sound of a drum playing in the village, and I found my own drum and just picked it up and started playing, the worst song ever written by Wyclef Jean.But it actually started a vibe.
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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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Right now I'm trying to help my sister with her school situation, 'cause she's real smart. Besides me, my other brother's a lawyer... my parents stressed education a lot.
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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 from the church, my dad was a pastor's kid.
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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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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 like Cab Calloway: I love the entertainment, and I've loved entertaining people ever since I was little.
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My battle raps couldn't get me groceries from the supermarket.
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Rap records don't make you feel good no more. Six months after release, it can't come back as a classic
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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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I've never really [written] something that was inspired.
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Once you're done in hip-hop, you're done.
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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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