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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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Wyclef Jean
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 17
Actor
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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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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'm 27 years old. I'm going to go into Hollywood really arrogant. I'll be breaking a lot of rules. It's going to be hot.
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At the end of the day, just know that God made you, so you can be your own individual, and don't let people give you that peer pressure.
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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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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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I haven't accomplished nothing yet - I have a long way to go.
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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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My father being a Caribbean minister, one day I stole the radio. The radio that I stole, I took it to school, showing off how big this boom box was and how bad I was at the time. Once my father figured out where I left the radio, he then got his belt and he walked me, he beat me all the way to where I had hid the radio, and with the boom box.
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All that violence in the world, we need to stop that
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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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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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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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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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I feel that life is short, so we should be disciplined, but at the same time we should have a good time.
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Coming from Haiti and growing up in Brooklyn, there's a lot of European influence when I get dressed up. I wear a lot of fitted suits, elegant cuts I think it's cool to mash up a lot of different looks.
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Respect, my brother, nothing but respect, man.
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Haiti is my country. The same way the Beatles are received in England - that's how Wyclef Jean is received in Haiti, do you know what I mean?
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It was important that I became successful. People say they do it for the love, and yes, you do it for the love, but you want to be successful
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