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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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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We're living in the modern age now. I call it the Year of the Matrix. Back in the day, you had these mixed-tape circuits where if you wanted to get (unreleased) music to your fans, you could go through DJs. Now all our fans have to do is go to their phones, and they'll be the first ones to hear something. And we're not talking about a ring tone here. We're talking about downloading a whole song, or a video.
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I'm going to do an all-guitar album because I've been playing since I was 13. My Caribbean style mixed with my rock style. I want to do a musicians' album-just the guitar talking with different melodies.
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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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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 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.
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We try to bring a lot of live musicianship to the music. A lot of grooves. We're Caribbean; we from the islands. Out of the music industry, I'd say we're the Caribbean producers of the world.
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Being a New Yorker, you get there and you take your sneakers off, you're cooperating, but man, that line be long! I mean, you do definitely want to be safe, but at the same time, it annoys you sometimes, 'cause you just want to get to where you want to get to.
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My dad didn't want to hear that you was going into the studio-you came back late at night and he didn't understand that, that theory didn't exist in his mind.