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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.
Wyclef Jean
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Wyclef Jean
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 17
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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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All that violence in the world, we need to stop that
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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 lose touch with the audience and the reality of what life really is, I'll be Vanilla Ice or something.
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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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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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I've known Clinton for probably the last year that he was in office and stuff. The vibe that I always got from Clinton was, you-know, he never gave me a president-vibe.
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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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I lived in the projects and the ghetto, and turned the negative into a positive.
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I'm cheap, and I'm proud of it!
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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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I want people to experience what it's like being from Haiti, coming to America, being Wyclef - multicultural, multilingual.
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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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A lot of my music is very reggae- driven. Half of my life Bob Marley was all I listened to.
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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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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 thing which America allows you to be is it's the country of opportunities.
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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 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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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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