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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
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My battle raps couldn't get me groceries from the supermarket.
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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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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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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 know that the nice shines I have on is going to pass. The nice cars will pass. All that will stay is the music and the work. That's where I get the inspiration to help people out and work
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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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There's not a hip-hop artist that didn't snatch of piece of Bob Marley. It's totally impossible.
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If you go in the ring and box and you're angry, you're gonna lose the match.
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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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America is a melting pot of immigrants. So actually, if you took all of the immigrants outside of America, you'd be missing a lot of flavor, starting with the food, with the culture, with the dance, with everything.
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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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I always look outside.
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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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My parents were Christian.
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I come from a hut, from a hut I went to the projects, from the projects I went to a mansion so you out there you have ABSOLUTLY NO EXCUSE!
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Mama, you know you raised me with no father figure. I wanna take this time to thank you, even though I'm doing life.
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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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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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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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I like to go against the grain, against what's out there. Every day is like a challenge.
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