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I'm hands-on with everything, always trying to reach the real people.

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
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I'm not going away fast I've been around for a while, and plan to be around for a while more.
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The reason why we love America so much is America is the only place you can actually come in and wave your flag.
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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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I'm like Cab Calloway: I love the entertainment, and I've loved entertaining people ever since I was little.
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America is a melting pot of immigrants. So actually, if you took all of the immigrants outside of America, you'd be missing a lot of flavor, starting with the food, with the culture, with the dance, with everything.
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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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My battle raps couldn't get me groceries from the supermarket.
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The reason why we're warriors is that we rise to the occasion anyone that's felt like the system put them down, and then they rose to the occasion, they're a warrior. It's not about whether you come from the hood or you come from the suburbs, you know what I mean? It's about reality and life.
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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.
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It will be true work that the kids can follow, as opposed to a facade of you doin' something, and you're doin' nothing.
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I've been communicating with the Fugees, and it feels a lot better now than it did three or four years ago.
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No matter what I'm goin' through, I could still exist.
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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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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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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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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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Rap records don't make you feel good no more. Six months after release, it can't come back as a classic
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