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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
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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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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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The voice of an Angel, the Heart of a Lamb, the spirit of a Lioness, the presence of a Goddess, love you R.I.P Whitney Houston.
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I lived in the projects and the ghetto, and turned the negative into a positive.
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I'm from the church, my dad was a pastor's kid.
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No matter what I'm goin' through, I could still exist.
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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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Once you're done in hip-hop, you're done.
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Bob Marley stood for universal peace and love. He tried to break racial barriers.
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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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There's not a hip-hop artist that didn't snatch of piece of Bob Marley. It's totally impossible.
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All that violence in the world, we need to stop that
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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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I want to be part of a different kind of celebrity, one that thinks not just about charity but policy.
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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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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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My battle raps couldn't get me groceries from the supermarket.
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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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I want people to experience what it's like being from Haiti, coming to America, being Wyclef - multicultural, multilingual.
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I decided to do what I do when I was 2 years old. At 2 years old, you know, I heard the sound of a drum playing in the village, and I found my own drum and just picked it up and started playing, the worst song ever written by Wyclef Jean.But it actually started a vibe.
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