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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
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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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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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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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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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I was looking for Quincy Jones, that's who I was obsessed with. Watching Mike [Jackson], I always knew that I had to be a showman on stage, because when people come to you live you always want them to come back. You gotta give them something to remember.
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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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No matter what I'm goin' through, I could still exist.
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When you're talkin' about a great man, you're not talking more than one person. It's not about how many people are followin' you, it's about the fact that you're a great man, that's all it's about.
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My songs are really never titled. Sometimes I call it one thing. then I change it
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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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I think the greatest thing about America is the American Dream.
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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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I feel that life is short, so we should be disciplined, but at the same time we should have a good time.
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I'm the hip-hop Quincy Jones of today
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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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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 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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I want people to experience what it's like being from Haiti, coming to America, being Wyclef - multicultural, multilingual.
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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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If I can't take five years out to serve my country as president, then everything I've been singing about, like equal rights, doesn't mean anything.
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