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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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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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I like to go against the grain, against what's out there. Every day is like a challenge.
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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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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 want to be part of a different kind of celebrity, one that thinks not just about charity but policy.
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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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It's important, when you see darkness, to understand that there's light ahead of that, and I'm the living testimony of that, you dig?
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I think the greatest thing about America is the American Dream.
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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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I'm from the church, my dad was a pastor's kid.
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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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A lot of my music is very reggae- driven. Half of my life Bob Marley was all I listened to.
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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 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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Bob Marley stood for universal peace and love. He tried to break racial barriers.
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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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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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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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I always look outside.
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My parents were Christian.
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