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If you go in the ring and box and you're angry, you're gonna lose the match.

Wyclef Jean

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Wyclef Jean
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 17
Actor
Film Producer
Human Rights Activist
Musician
Rapper
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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'm from the church, my dad was a pastor's kid.
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My battle raps couldn't get me groceries from the supermarket.
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Keep in mind: true revolution is only seven people, right?
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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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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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In the beginning I had women problems, 'cause you know, I represent for the guys. But I was actin' a fool, whilin' out. I'm not sayin' I don't while out anymore. I'm not gonna lie to you.
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I do music for the love of it, and I've been doing it from a very young age: about 11.
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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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For everybody who lost somebody out there and stuff, when you need therapy, music is the best way.
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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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Bob Marley stood for universal peace and love. He tried to break racial barriers.
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I'm like Cab Calloway: I love the entertainment, and I've loved entertaining people ever since I was little.
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I don't see no more Billie Holidays, no more Marvin Gayes, no more Smokey Robinsons. I don't even see no more Nirvanas.
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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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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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Me and my father went through a war period where we wasn't talking. He wanted me to go to theology school - I didn't want to go. I wanted to do music. I told him I was a minister through music.
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My accomplishment has helped millions of kids see that they can come from a poor family and go somewhere, make something out of themselves. Ive been doing it for seven years professionally.
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I think it's cool to do stuff in a different language. Basically, I learned English through listening to rap. A lot of people think it's funny. But it's true I used to try to get the accents.
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I'm hands-on with everything, always trying to reach the real people.
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