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What I'm trying to do is break the genre from what is rap and what is music.
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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My first record wasn't even with the Fugees. I was signed to Big Beat Records, so I was signed back in 1989 to the label that the Knocks are on now. You can always tell which generation had the pulse based on how they see things.
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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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What I picked up on Michael Jackson - because I study people when I watch them - the way that he counts his rhythm with his feet and his neck at the same time is crazy... so he's hearing multiple things at once. And I don't know anybody who does that.
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My dad was in the hood, he was a minister, and he would always put churches in the ghetto.
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Once you're done in hip-hop, you're done.
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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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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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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'm not going away fast I've been around for a while, and plan to be around for a while more.
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My daddy was a minister, my grandfather was a voodoo priest, my uncle was a mason I was raised with a lot of studies.
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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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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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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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I'm from the church, my dad was a pastor's kid.
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People often associate raves with drugs, but for me raves are more associated with self-expression.
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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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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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Coming from Haiti and growing up in Brooklyn, there's a lot of European influence when I get dressed up. I wear a lot of fitted suits, elegant cuts I think it's cool to mash up a lot of different looks.
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It was important to me to go back to the grungy, because all of a sudden you get excited again, 'cause there's another whole dimension of 'Clef that you wasn't expecting to hear.
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