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I'm cheap, and I'm proud of it!
Wyclef Jean
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Wyclef Jean
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 17
Actor
Film Producer
Human Rights Activist
Musician
Rapper
Kwadèbouke
Wyclef Jeanelle Jean
Nel Ust Wyclef Jean
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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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My parents were Christian.
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It was important that I became successful. People say they do it for the love, and yes, you do it for the love, but you want to be successful
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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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My grandfather was a voodoo priest. A lot of my life dealt with spirituality. I can close my eyes and remember where I come from.
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My battle raps couldn't get me groceries from the supermarket.
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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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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 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 feel that life is short, so we should be disciplined, but at the same time we should have a good time.
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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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There's not a hip-hop artist that didn't snatch of piece of Bob Marley. It's totally impossible.
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If you go in the ring and box and you're angry, you're gonna lose the match.
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Once you're done in hip-hop, you're done.
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What I picked up on Michael Jackson - because I study people when I watch them - the way that he counts his rhythm with his feet and his neck at the same time is crazy... so he's hearing multiple things at once. And I don't know anybody who does that.
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I was looking for Quincy Jones, that's who I was obsessed with. Watching Mike [Jackson], I always knew that I had to be a showman on stage, because when people come to you live you always want them to come back. You gotta give them something to remember.
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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 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 lived in the projects and the ghetto, and turned the negative into a positive.
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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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