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When you're talkin' about a great man, you're not talking more than one person. It's not about how many people are followin' you, it's about the fact that you're a great man, that's all it's about.
Wyclef Jean
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Wyclef Jean
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: October 17
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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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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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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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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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What I'm trying to do is break the genre from what is rap and what is music.
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I haven't accomplished nothing yet - I have a long way to go.
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Mama, you know you raised me with no father figure. I wanna take this time to thank you, even though I'm doing life.
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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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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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My father being a Caribbean minister, one day I stole the radio. The radio that I stole, I took it to school, showing off how big this boom box was and how bad I was at the time. Once my father figured out where I left the radio, he then got his belt and he walked me, he beat me all the way to where I had hid the radio, and with the boom box.
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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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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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Coming from Haiti and growing up in Brooklyn, there's a lot of European influence when I get dressed up. I wear a lot of fitted suits, elegant cuts I think it's cool to mash up a lot of different looks.
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No matter what I'm goin' through, I could still exist.
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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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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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My dad was in the hood, he was a minister, and he would always put churches in the ghetto.
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