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The Wyclef Jean music is eclectic music. Wyclef represents music -eclectic music. I've been doing this music since I was a child, and I said I will refuse for anyone to put me into a box.
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Wyclef Jean
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 17
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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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Every generation is gonna keep changing, and you just have to embrace the change.
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The voice of an Angel, the Heart of a Lamb, the spirit of a Lioness, the presence of a Goddess, love you R.I.P Whitney Houston.
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When you enter the realm of politics, you don't enter it because you want to be popular. When I want to be popular, I pull on a guitar and sing a song.
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I'm hands-on with everything, always trying to reach the real people.
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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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I lived in the projects and the ghetto, and turned the negative into a positive.
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You might see a female, and she triggers something, or you see an old lady walking down the street, she triggers something. You go to Africa, you see the vibes, that triggers something.
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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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When I'm rhyming it's all in my head... Like the slaves, when they were picking cotton, they would block out their minds. They would sing.
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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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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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I've never really [written] something that was inspired.
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Keep in mind: true revolution is only seven people, right?
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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 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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It will be true work that the kids can follow, as opposed to a facade of you doin' something, and you're doin' nothing.
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I lived in a hut with no roof, and I rode to school on a donkey. I used to shoot birds with a slingshot to cook for dinner. Now I prefer to get my food from KFC.
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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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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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