Wyclef Jean
Wyclef Jean
Wyclef Jeanelle Jean is a Haitian rapper, musician and actor. At the age of nine, Jean moved to the United States with his family and has spent much of his life there. He first achieved fame as a member of the acclaimed New Jersey hip hop group the Fugees. Jean won three Grammy Awards for his musical work...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRapper
Date of Birth17 October 1969
CountryUnited States of America
artist hip-hop pieces
There's not a hip-hop artist that didn't snatch of piece of Bob Marley. It's totally impossible.
father parent grew
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.
father war school
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.
made bigs saved
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.
generations embrace
Every generation is gonna keep changing, and you just have to embrace the change.
america people want
I want people to experience what it's like being from Haiti, coming to America, being Wyclef - multicultural, multilingual.
song guitar want
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.
holiday marvin
I don't see no more Billie Holidays, no more Marvin Gayes, no more Smokey Robinsons. I don't even see no more Nirvanas.
years three four
I've been communicating with the Fugees, and it feels a lot better now than it did three or four years ago.
half bob marley
A lot of my music is very reggae- driven. Half of my life Bob Marley was all I listened to.
rap thinking people
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.
years office president
I've known Clinton for probably the last year that he was in office and stuff. The vibe that I always got from Clinton was, you-know, he never gave me a president-vibe.
important causes dimensions
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.
brother real smart
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.