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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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