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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
Nel Ust Wyclef Jean
Trying
Always
People
Reach
Hands
Everything
Real

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Bob Marley stood for universal peace and love. He tried to break racial barriers.
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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'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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At the end of the day, just know that God made you, so you can be your own individual, and don't let people give you that peer pressure.
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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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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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Haiti is my country. The same way the Beatles are received in England - that's how Wyclef Jean is received in Haiti, do you know what I mean?
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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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Every generation is gonna keep changing, and you just have to embrace the change.
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I've never really [written] something that was inspired.
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I don't see no more Billie Holidays, no more Marvin Gayes, no more Smokey Robinsons. I don't even see no more Nirvanas.
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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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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 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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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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What I'm trying to do is break the genre from what is rap and what is music.
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I grew up in a Caribbean family household, so the parents are always right. My father smacked me up til I was 20. It was a strict household.
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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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I'm the hip-hop Quincy Jones of today
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Once you're done in hip-hop, you're done.
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