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I come from a hut, from a hut I went to the projects, from the projects I went to a mansion so you out there you have ABSOLUTLY NO EXCUSE!
Wyclef Jean
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Wyclef Jean
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 17
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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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What I'm trying to do is break the genre from what is rap and what is music.
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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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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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On Sundays I give the sermons like my dad used to give. I utilize it as a revolutionary tool, as a thinking tool, as a tool where I can recruit people, DM them, and give them information that I feel that they need going forward.
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Wyclef is a musician that tried to unite as many musicians at once as possible. I am trying to be successful at that. The greatest challenge is that, I just got arrested for protesting in NYC for cutting the school budgets... And I think that it's important to stand up. Schools are important.
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I haven't accomplished nothing yet - I have a long way to go.
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I'm from the church, my dad was a pastor's kid.
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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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There's not a hip-hop artist that didn't snatch of piece of Bob Marley. It's totally impossible.
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When you find the talent, it's always raw, and when you put the talent in the formula, you get the Knocks.
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Ever since I was a little kid, there used to be the Carnival that used to pass.
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Bob Marley stood for universal peace and love. He tried to break racial barriers.
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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 the hip-hop Quincy Jones of today
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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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All that violence in the world, we need to stop that
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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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My battle raps couldn't get me groceries from the supermarket.
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Coming from Haiti and growing up in Brooklyn, there's a lot of European influence when I get dressed up. I wear a lot of fitted suits, elegant cuts I think it's cool to mash up a lot of different looks.
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