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My dad was in the hood, he was a minister, and he would always put churches in the ghetto.

Wyclef Jean

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Wyclef Jean
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 17
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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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I know that the nice shines I have on is going to pass. The nice cars will pass. All that will stay is the music and the work. That's where I get the inspiration to help people out and work
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I lived in the projects and the ghetto, and turned the negative into a positive.
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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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