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Wyclef Jean

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I'm like Cab Calloway: I love the entertainment, and I've loved entertaining people ever since I was little.


— Wyclef Jean


#calloway #entertaining #entertaining people #entertainment #ever

I'm the hip-hop Quincy Jones of today.


— Wyclef Jean


#i #jones #today

It was important that I became successful. People say they do it for the love, and yes, you do it for the love, but you want to be successful.


— Wyclef Jean


#i #important #love #people #people say

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.


— Wyclef Jean


#go #him #i #me #minister

My parents were Christian.


— Wyclef Jean


#parents #were

My songs are really never titled. Sometimes I call it one thing. then I change it.


— Wyclef Jean


#change #i #never #one thing #really

Rap records don't make you feel good no more. Six months after release, it can't come back as a classic.


— Wyclef Jean


#back #classic #come #feel #feel good

That's the best way to feed the human mind. That's how Bob Marley did it. He never put it in your face. After you got the groove, you were just singing the hooks, because you thought it was cool.


— Wyclef Jean


#because #best #best way #bob #bob marley

There's not a hip-hop artist that didn't snatch of piece of Bob Marley. It's totally impossible.


— Wyclef Jean


#bob #bob marley #hip-hop #impossible #marley

What I'm trying to do is break the genre from what is rap and what is music.


— Wyclef Jean


#genre #i #music #rap #trying






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Did you know about Wyclef Jean?

Jean's third album Masquerade was released in 2002. In 2009 Jean enrolled in the Berklee College of Music. With Jerry 'Wonder' Duplessis Jean also composed the score of the documentary Ghosts of Cité Soleil He also helped produce the film and he appears briefly onscreen speaking by telephone in 2004 to a "chimere" gang-leader and aspiring rapper Winston "2Pac" Jean.

He first received fame as a member of the acclaimed New Jersey hip hop group the Fugees. On August 5 2010 Jean filed for candidacy in the 2010 Haitian presidential election although the Electoral Commission subsequently ruled him ineligible to stand as he had not met the requirement to have been resident in Haiti for five years. The charity which performed a variety of charitable works in Haiti between 2005 and 2010 effectively closed in 2012.

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