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When you find the talent, it's always raw, and when you put the talent in the formula, you get the Knocks.

Wyclef Jean

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Wyclef Jean
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 17
Actor
Film Producer
Human Rights Activist
Musician
Rapper
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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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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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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 lived in the projects and the ghetto, and turned the negative into a positive.
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You get quick money, it's beautiful, there's sunshine, but at the end of the day, you find out it's all a masquerade, baby. It's not what it seems.
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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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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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When I rap, I get to express myself in a way where putting words together is like poetry, and sometimes it's better to talk in certain expressions than sing, you know? So I love, I love to rhyme when I want to express certain things.
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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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I'm the hip-hop Quincy Jones of today
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Bob Marley stood for universal peace and love. He tried to break racial barriers.
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I've never really [written] something that was inspired.
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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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The first thing you must learn is to always treat a man and a woman with total respect and honor, 'cause if you do that, the legacy you will leave behind will be work.
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There's not a hip-hop artist that didn't snatch of piece of Bob Marley. It's totally impossible.
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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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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.
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