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I lived in the projects and the ghetto, and turned the negative into a positive.
Wyclef Jean
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Wyclef Jean
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 17
Actor
Film Producer
Human Rights Activist
Musician
Rapper
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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'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 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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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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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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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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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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I'm cheap, and I'm proud of it!
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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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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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My father being a Caribbean minister, one day I stole the radio. The radio that I stole, I took it to school, showing off how big this boom box was and how bad I was at the time. Once my father figured out where I left the radio, he then got his belt and he walked me, he beat me all the way to where I had hid the radio, and with the boom box.
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You might see a female, and she triggers something, or you see an old lady walking down the street, she triggers something. You go to Africa, you see the vibes, that triggers something.
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For everybody who lost somebody out there and stuff, when you need therapy, music is the best way.
Wyclef Jean
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.
Wyclef Jean
In the beginning I had women problems, 'cause you know, I represent for the guys. But I was actin' a fool, whilin' out. I'm not sayin' I don't while out anymore. I'm not gonna lie to you.
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My songs are really never titled. Sometimes I call it one thing. then I change it
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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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Bob Marley stood for universal peace and love. He tried to break racial barriers.
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I'm hands-on with everything, always trying to reach the real people.
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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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