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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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Respect, my brother, nothing but respect, man.
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I've been communicating with the Fugees, and it feels a lot better now than it did three or four years ago.
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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.
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All that violence in the world, we need to stop that
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What happens is we're all gonna return to dirt, so at the end of the day we're all equal.
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My parents were Christian.
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I'm hands-on with everything, always trying to reach the real people.
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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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