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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.

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Wyclef Jean
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 17
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Human Rights Activist
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Mama, you know you raised me with no father figure. I wanna take this time to thank you, even though I'm doing life.
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My parents were Christian.
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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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Bob Marley stood for universal peace and love. He tried to break racial barriers.
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My accomplishment has helped millions of kids see that they can come from a poor family and go somewhere, make something out of themselves. Ive been doing it for seven years professionally.
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I was a jazz major in high school, in an all-jazz band. No matter what I do, it features my musical influences.
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I lived in a hut with no roof, and I rode to school on a donkey. I used to shoot birds with a slingshot to cook for dinner. Now I prefer to get my food from KFC.
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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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When you enter the realm of politics, you don't enter it because you want to be popular. When I want to be popular, I pull on a guitar and sing a song.
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My battle raps couldn't get me groceries from the supermarket.
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My daddy was a minister, my grandfather was a voodoo priest, my uncle was a mason I was raised with a lot of studies.
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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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