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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.
Wyclef Jean
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Wyclef Jean
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 17
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It was important to me to go back to the grungy, because all of a sudden you get excited again, 'cause there's another whole dimension of 'Clef that you wasn't expecting to hear.
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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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