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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
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Human Rights Activist
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Rapper
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My parents were Christian.
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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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On Sundays I give the sermons like my dad used to give. I utilize it as a revolutionary tool, as a thinking tool, as a tool where I can recruit people, DM them, and give them information that I feel that they need going forward.
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I want to be part of a different kind of celebrity, one that thinks not just about charity but policy.
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What happens is we're all gonna return to dirt, so at the end of the day we're all equal.
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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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Once we revolutionize the music industry, then we can revolutionize our communities and everything in the world, 'cause what happens is, the communities are listening to the music.
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The reason why we love America so much is America is the only place you can actually come in and wave your flag.
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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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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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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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I'm the hip-hop Quincy Jones of today
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I do music for the love of it, and I've been doing it from a very young age: about 11.
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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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I'm like Cab Calloway: I love the entertainment, and I've loved entertaining people ever since I was little.
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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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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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When I lose touch with the audience and the reality of what life really is, I'll be Vanilla Ice or something.
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My father being a Caribbean minister, one day I stole the radio. The radio that I stole, I took it to school, showing off how big this boom box was and how bad I was at the time. Once my father figured out where I left the radio, he then got his belt and he walked me, he beat me all the way to where I had hid the radio, and with the boom box.
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