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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
Kwadèbouke
Wyclef Jeanelle Jean
Nel Ust Wyclef Jean
Projects
Negative
Lived
Positive
Ghetto
Turned

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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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I like Bergen County because it's nice and quiet. It's beautiful, and I can get to the city way quick.
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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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My daddy was a minister, my grandfather was a voodoo priest, my uncle was a mason I was raised with a lot of studies.
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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 know that the nice shines I have on is going to pass. The nice cars will pass. All that will stay is the music and the work. That's where I get the inspiration to help people out and work
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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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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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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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Once we revolutionize the music industry, then we can revolutionize our communities and everything in the world, 'cause what happens is, the communities are listening to the music.
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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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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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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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If you go in the ring and box and you're angry, you're gonna lose the match.
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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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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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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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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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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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