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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
Musician
Rapper
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Music
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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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The first thing you must learn is to always treat a man and a woman with total respect and honor, 'cause if you do that, the legacy you will leave behind will be work.
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I want people to experience what it's like being from Haiti, coming to America, being Wyclef - multicultural, multilingual.
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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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I've never really [written] something that was inspired.
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People often associate raves with drugs, but for me raves are more associated with self-expression.
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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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Bob Marley stood for universal peace and love. He tried to break racial barriers.
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I'm from the church, my dad was a pastor's kid.
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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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When you find the talent, it's always raw, and when you put the talent in the formula, you get the Knocks.
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Keep in mind: true revolution is only seven people, right?
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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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I'm the hip-hop Quincy Jones of today
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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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For everybody who lost somebody out there and stuff, when you need therapy, music is the best way.
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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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For me, before I go on stage, it all depends. Might be a girl, might be an edible, might be a verse, might be somebody mixing something in my drink without me knowing - hopefully that won't happen tonight.
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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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The thing which America allows you to be is it's the country of opportunities.
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