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
producer record side
I always have a producer to the side of me, and I never want to do a record by myself.
everybody fortunate work
We're fortunate enough to work with everybody when they're just getting started.
ground
There are celebrities who have charities, but you don't see them on the ground. Angelina is on the ground doing things.
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When you throw on a Bob Marley record, it's nothing but lighters up in the air. All the thugs in the dance are just going calm down. I don't know no other artist that you can throw in the middle of a dance like that.
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Masquerade was on the Net for like four months, five months before it came out. Right now, everyone's trying to see if they can come up with a code where they can prevent that from happening.
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I went in to record the Philharmonic. I wrote down the parts, and I was inside the studio with 62 pieces outside the studio. They never saw my face or what I looked like.
help music rebel
Our music is more rebel music. We do music for society, for humanity, to help and to heal.
girls turned
Some girls get turned on by being called a bitch.
kid sounds
That's this new kid Governor, he sounds just like Marvin Gaye. And he's like only 23. We have another kid, Prolific.
fired head six songs stuck
I would be writing so many songs in my head while I'm making 30 Whoppers and six fries. That's why it never got me down or whatever. Of course, I got fired because the place got stuck up.
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When I think about the biggest studios in New York, they're owned by people that are not musicians or artists, and artists come in and spend their money there, and they'd rather do that, as opposed to getting the headache. So they pay someone else to get the headache.
building man million
We're building a movement, a one million man movement.
beats forgot
You all know I can play the guitar, you all know I can sing, but what you all forgot is these are all the beats that I come from.
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When you're in the studio at a young age, you're not aware that there's a union where you can hire musicians. So you have all of this equipment and you just learn how to play it yourself.