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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.

Wyclef Jean

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Wyclef Jean
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 17
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Keep in mind: true revolution is only seven people, right?
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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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Bob Marley stood for universal peace and love. He tried to break racial barriers.
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My battle raps couldn't get me groceries from the supermarket.
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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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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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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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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 want people to experience what it's like being from Haiti, coming to America, being Wyclef - multicultural, multilingual.
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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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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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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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If I can't take five years out to serve my country as president, then everything I've been singing about, like equal rights, doesn't mean anything.
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I'm from the church, my dad was a pastor's kid.
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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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Ever since I was a little kid, there used to be the Carnival that used to pass.
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