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
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When you go to Carnival every year, you bounce to, you-know the different music that make it to Carnival in Trinidad. It don't matter about the country you're from.
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I think the greatest thing about America is the American dream. America allows you take that dream and bring it back to your country and help you inspire more people.
country people
I know country people who have The Carnival.
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The thing which America allows you to be is it's the country of opportunities.
country mean haiti
Haiti is my country. The same way the Beatles are received in England - that's how Wyclef Jean is received in Haiti, do you know what I mean?
country mean years
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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The record company is happy because they feel they have things that they can play. I'm happy because I feel I have enough records to bump in the street and in the dance hall with the reggae, so I'm cool with that.
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We're trying to be one of the Number One studios in New York City, which we are.
What Sammy Sosa has done for the Dominican Republic, that's what I think I can do for Haiti.
dropped honest lyrics
We just dropped some very honest lyrics about where we come from and what's going on.
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When you pick up The Carnival, you get the big genre.
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You gotta be born with it, baby. We walk with the lip, we talk with the slang. And we pretty. We pretty, baby. We move like Ali in his young days. We good with the jab, good with the stab.
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You get conflicts all of the time. But you have to know how to play the chess game. We come with results, and we come with solutions.
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You be in a club with these girls and they're looking at you, giving you play, but you don't want no play, because you realize the next week Jay-Z comes into town and it's the exact same thing. If you value your life, you're not gonna be doing that type of thing.