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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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Human Rights Activist
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I was looking for Quincy Jones, that's who I was obsessed with. Watching Mike [Jackson], I always knew that I had to be a showman on stage, because when people come to you live you always want them to come back. You gotta give them something to remember.
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What happens is we're all gonna return to dirt, so at the end of the day we're all equal.
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Once you're done in hip-hop, you're done.
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Michael Jackson was my musical God. He made me believe that all things are possible, and through real and positive music. He can live forever! I love Michael Jackson. God Bless him.
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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 lived in the projects and the ghetto, and turned the negative into a positive.
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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 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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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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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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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 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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A lot of my music is very reggae- driven. Half of my life Bob Marley was all I listened to.
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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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It was important to me to go back to the grungy, because all of a sudden you get excited again, 'cause there's another whole dimension of 'Clef that you wasn't expecting to hear.
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Bob Marley stood for universal peace and love. He tried to break racial barriers.
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I think the greatest thing about America is the American Dream.
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I'm cheap, and I'm proud of it!
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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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