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I don't see no more Billie Holidays, no more Marvin Gayes, no more Smokey Robinsons. I don't even see no more Nirvanas.

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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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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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 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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I think the greatest thing about America is the American Dream.
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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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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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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'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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I always want to know what's wrong with you, why you ain't smiling. That's just my character I just love people and want to see people having a good time.
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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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I've known Clinton for probably the last year that he was in office and stuff. The vibe that I always got from Clinton was, you-know, he never gave me a president-vibe.
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I like Bergen County because it's nice and quiet. It's beautiful, and I can get to the city way quick.
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I lived in the projects and the ghetto, and turned the negative into a positive.
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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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There's not a hip-hop artist that didn't snatch of piece of Bob Marley. It's totally impossible.
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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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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 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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Ever since I was a little kid, there used to be the Carnival that used to pass.
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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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