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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
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Rapper
Kwadèbouke
Wyclef Jeanelle Jean
Nel Ust Wyclef Jean
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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 to go against the grain, against what's out there. Every day is like a challenge.
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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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Right now I'm trying to help my sister with her school situation, 'cause she's real smart. Besides me, my other brother's a lawyer... my parents stressed education a lot.
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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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The thing which America allows you to be is it's the country of opportunities.
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Once you're done in hip-hop, you're done.
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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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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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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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I'm cheap, and I'm proud of it!
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No matter what I'm goin' through, I could still exist.
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The Wyclef Jean music is eclectic music. Wyclef represents music -eclectic music. I've been doing this music since I was a child, and I said I will refuse for anyone to put me into a box.
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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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All that violence in the world, we need to stop that
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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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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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I'm like Cab Calloway: I love the entertainment, and I've loved entertaining people ever since I was little.
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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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Bob Marley stood for universal peace and love. He tried to break racial barriers.
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