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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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Me and my father went through a war period where we wasn't talking. He wanted me to go to theology school - I didn't want to go. I wanted to do music. I told him I was a minister through music.
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What I'm trying to do is break the genre from what is rap and what is music.
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My songs are really never titled. Sometimes I call it one thing. then I change it
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I lived in the projects and the ghetto, and turned the negative into a positive.
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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 like to go against the grain, against what's out there. Every day is like a challenge.
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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 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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In the beginning I had women problems, 'cause you know, I represent for the guys. But I was actin' a fool, whilin' out. I'm not sayin' I don't while out anymore. I'm not gonna lie to you.
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I grew up in a Caribbean family household, so the parents are always right. My father smacked me up til I was 20. It was a strict household.
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I've never really [written] something that was inspired.
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If I can't take five years out to serve my country as president, then everything I've been singing about, like equal rights, doesn't mean anything.
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I always want to know what's wrong with you, why you ain't smiling. That's just my character I just love people and want to see people having a good time.
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For me, before I go on stage, it all depends. Might be a girl, might be an edible, might be a verse, might be somebody mixing something in my drink without me knowing - hopefully that won't happen tonight.
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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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There's not a hip-hop artist that didn't snatch of piece of Bob Marley. It's totally impossible.
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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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Every generation is gonna keep changing, and you just have to embrace the change.
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America is a melting pot of immigrants. So actually, if you took all of the immigrants outside of America, you'd be missing a lot of flavor, starting with the food, with the culture, with the dance, with everything.
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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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