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I'm from the church, my dad was a pastor's kid.

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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A lot of my music is very reggae- driven. Half of my life Bob Marley was all I listened to.
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What I picked up on Michael Jackson - because I study people when I watch them - the way that he counts his rhythm with his feet and his neck at the same time is crazy... so he's hearing multiple things at once. And I don't know anybody who does that.
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My dad was in the hood, he was a minister, and he would always put churches in the ghetto.
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All that violence in the world, we need to stop that
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Once we revolutionize the music industry, then we can revolutionize our communities and everything in the world, 'cause what happens is, the communities are listening to the music.
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Rap records don't make you feel good no more. Six months after release, it can't come back as a classic
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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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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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Once you're done in hip-hop, you're done.
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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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I come from a hut, from a hut I went to the projects, from the projects I went to a mansion so you out there you have ABSOLUTLY NO EXCUSE!
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I don't see no more Billie Holidays, no more Marvin Gayes, no more Smokey Robinsons. I don't even see no more Nirvanas.
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It will be true work that the kids can follow, as opposed to a facade of you doin' something, and you're doin' nothing.
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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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What a lot of people don't know is that Wyclef started off as a battle rapper, when he decided that he would rhyme.
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When I'm rhyming it's all in my head... Like the slaves, when they were picking cotton, they would block out their minds. They would sing.
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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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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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I hear them playing Elvis, they on they way to Graceland. But they don't scare me, I'm in the trunk.
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Every generation is gonna keep changing, and you just have to embrace the change.
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