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I want to be part of a different kind of celebrity, one that thinks not just about charity but policy.

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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The thing which America allows you to be is it's the country of opportunities.
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All that violence in the world, we need to stop that
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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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My grandfather was a voodoo priest. A lot of my life dealt with spirituality. I can close my eyes and remember where I come from.
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It's important, when you see darkness, to understand that there's light ahead of that, and I'm the living testimony of that, you dig?
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My songs are really never titled. Sometimes I call it one thing. then I change it
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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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I'm hands-on with everything, always trying to reach the real people.
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My battle raps couldn't get me groceries from the supermarket.
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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.
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You get quick money, it's beautiful, there's sunshine, but at the end of the day, you find out it's all a masquerade, baby. It's not what it seems.
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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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I'm the hip-hop Quincy Jones of today
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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 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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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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What a lot of people don't know is that Wyclef started off as a battle rapper, when he decided that he would rhyme.
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Respect, my brother, nothing but respect, man.
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Keep in mind: true revolution is only seven people, right?
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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
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