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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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Wyclef Jean
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 17
Actor
Film Producer
Human Rights Activist
Musician
Rapper
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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.
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All that violence in the world, we need to stop that
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Once you're done in hip-hop, you're done.
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I'm cheap, and I'm proud of it!
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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.
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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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What I'm trying to do is break the genre from what is rap and what is music.
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For everybody who lost somebody out there and stuff, when you need therapy, music is the best way.
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Keep in mind: true revolution is only seven people, right?
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Respect, my brother, nothing but respect, man.
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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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No matter how far you go, if you can't go back to the essence, you're not sayin' nothin'. The essence for me is hip-hop. But the hip-hop community I came up in isn't a loyal community.
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My songs are really never titled. Sometimes I call it one thing. then I change it
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I think it's cool to do stuff in a different language. Basically, I learned English through listening to rap. A lot of people think it's funny. But it's true I used to try to get the accents.
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