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I want people to experience what it's like being from Haiti, coming to America, being Wyclef - multicultural, multilingual.
Wyclef Jean
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Wyclef Jean
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 17
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Film Producer
Human Rights Activist
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Rapper
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I'm 27 years old. I'm going to go into Hollywood really arrogant. I'll be breaking a lot of rules. It's going to be hot.
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I lived in the projects and the ghetto, and turned the negative into a positive.
Wyclef Jean
My accomplishment has helped millions of kids see that they can come from a poor family and go somewhere, make something out of themselves. Ive been doing it for seven years professionally.
Wyclef Jean
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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When I'm rhyming it's all in my head... Like the slaves, when they were picking cotton, they would block out their minds. They would sing.
Wyclef Jean
I do music for the love of it, and I've been doing it from a very young age: about 11.
Wyclef Jean
My dad was in the hood, he was a minister, and he would always put churches in the ghetto.
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For everybody who lost somebody out there and stuff, when you need therapy, music is the best way.
Wyclef Jean
All that violence in the world, we need to stop that
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I'm hands-on with everything, always trying to reach the real people.
Wyclef Jean
A lot of my music is very reggae- driven. Half of my life Bob Marley was all I listened to.
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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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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.
Wyclef Jean
I don't see no more Billie Holidays, no more Marvin Gayes, no more Smokey Robinsons. I don't even see no more Nirvanas.
Wyclef Jean
My parents were Christian.
Wyclef Jean
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.
Wyclef Jean
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.
Wyclef Jean
It was important that I became successful. People say they do it for the love, and yes, you do it for the love, but you want to be successful
Wyclef Jean
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.
Wyclef Jean
Keep in mind: true revolution is only seven people, right?
Wyclef Jean