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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.
Wyclef Jean
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Wyclef Jean
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 17
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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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Wyclef is a musician that tried to unite as many musicians at once as possible. I am trying to be successful at that. The greatest challenge is that, I just got arrested for protesting in NYC for cutting the school budgets... And I think that it's important to stand up. Schools are important.
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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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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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I haven't accomplished nothing yet - I have a long way to go.
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I always look outside.
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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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When the Fugees were big, we made a whole lot of money, and what happened was that I saved my money and never spent it.
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I'm 27 years old. I'm going to go into Hollywood really arrogant. I'll be breaking a lot of rules. It's going to be hot.
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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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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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Every generation is gonna keep changing, and you just have to embrace the change.
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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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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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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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For everybody who lost somebody out there and stuff, when you need therapy, music is the best way.
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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 want to be part of a different kind of celebrity, one that thinks not just about charity but policy.
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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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Once you're done in hip-hop, you're done.
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