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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
Wyclef Jean
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Wyclef Jean
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 17
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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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Haiti is my country. The same way the Beatles are received in England - that's how Wyclef Jean is received in Haiti, do you know what I mean?
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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've never really [written] something that was inspired.
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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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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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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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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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For everybody who lost somebody out there and stuff, when you need therapy, music is the best way.
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I'm hands-on with everything, always trying to reach the real people.
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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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I hear them playing Elvis, they on they way to Graceland. But they don't scare me, I'm in the trunk.
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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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No matter what I'm goin' through, I could still exist.
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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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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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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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