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I'm the hip-hop Quincy Jones of today

Wyclef Jean

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Wyclef Jean
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 17
Actor
Film Producer
Human Rights Activist
Musician
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Once you're done in hip-hop, you're done.
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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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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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My first record wasn't even with the Fugees. I was signed to Big Beat Records, so I was signed back in 1989 to the label that the Knocks are on now. You can always tell which generation had the pulse based on how they see things.
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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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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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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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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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All that violence in the world, we need to stop that
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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.
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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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My accomplishment has helped millions of kids see that they can come from a poor family and go somewhere, make something out of themselves. Ive been doing it for seven years professionally.
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Keep in mind: true revolution is only seven people, right?
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No matter what I'm goin' through, I could still exist.
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I'm 27 years old. I'm going to go into Hollywood really arrogant. I'll be breaking a lot of rules. It's going to be hot.
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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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America is a melting pot of immigrants. So actually, if you took all of the immigrants outside of America, you'd be missing a lot of flavor, starting with the food, with the culture, with the dance, with everything.
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My songs are really never titled. Sometimes I call it one thing. then I change it
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For everybody who lost somebody out there and stuff, when you need therapy, music is the best way.
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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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