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A lot of my music is very reggae- driven. Half of my life Bob Marley was all I listened to.

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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Mama, you know you raised me with no father figure. I wanna take this time to thank you, even though I'm doing life.
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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 grandfather was a voodoo priest. A lot of my life dealt with spirituality. I can close my eyes and remember where I come from.
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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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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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My songs are really never titled. Sometimes I call it one thing. then I change it
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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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Keep in mind: true revolution is only seven people, right?
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When I rap, I get to express myself in a way where putting words together is like poetry, and sometimes it's better to talk in certain expressions than sing, you know? So I love, I love to rhyme when I want to express certain things.
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Every generation is gonna keep changing, and you just have to embrace the change.
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Me and my father went through a war period where we wasn't talking. He wanted me to go to theology school - I didn't want to go. I wanted to do music. I told him I was a minister through music.
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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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I've never really [written] something that was inspired.
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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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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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Once you're done in hip-hop, you're done.
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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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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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Ever since I was a little kid, there used to be the Carnival that used to pass.
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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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