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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.
Wyclef Jean
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Wyclef Jean
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 17
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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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My daddy was a minister, my grandfather was a voodoo priest, my uncle was a mason I was raised with a lot of studies.
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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 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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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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I want people to experience what it's like being from Haiti, coming to America, being Wyclef - multicultural, multilingual.
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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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No matter how far you go, if you can't go back to the essence, you're not sayin' nothin'. The essence for me is hip-hop. But the hip-hop community I came up in isn't a loyal community.
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My songs are really never titled. Sometimes I call it one thing. then I change it
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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 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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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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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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All that violence in the world, we need to stop that
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I'm not going away fast I've been around for a while, and plan to be around for a while more.
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I've known Clinton for probably the last year that he was in office and stuff. The vibe that I always got from Clinton was, you-know, he never gave me a president-vibe.
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The reason why we love America so much is America is the only place you can actually come in and wave your flag.
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