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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?

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 the hip-hop Quincy Jones of today
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Right now I'm trying to help my sister with her school situation, 'cause she's real smart. Besides me, my other brother's a lawyer... my parents stressed education a lot.
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My first record wasn't even with the Fugees. I was signed to Big Beat Records, so I was signed back in 1989 to the label that the Knocks are on now. You can always tell which generation had the pulse based on how they see things.
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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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Ever since I was a little kid, there used to be the Carnival that used to pass.
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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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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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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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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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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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If I can't take five years out to serve my country as president, then everything I've been singing about, like equal rights, doesn't mean anything.
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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 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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If you go in the ring and box and you're angry, you're gonna lose the match.
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You get quick money, it's beautiful, there's sunshine, but at the end of the day, you find out it's all a masquerade, baby. It's not what it seems.
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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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Rap records don't make you feel good no more. Six months after release, it can't come back as a classic
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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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Keep in mind: true revolution is only seven people, right?
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