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
next plan seven
In the next seven years, we plan to just take over the whole industry.
happens matter thirst yesterday
No matter what happens today, yesterday was historical. The only thing that erupted was the thirst to vote.
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.
producer record side
I always have a producer to the side of me, and I never want to do a record by myself.
face inside looked outside pieces record saw studio wrote
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.
clothes house pull rhythm run since somehow
They said somehow I used to run out of the house and while the Carnival's passing, with no clothes on, and I'm jigging my body, they used to come and pull me in. They said that ever since I was little, I always had the rhythm in me.
double house kicked led raised
I led a double lifestyle-in the house, I was one way, and out the house, I was another way. Man, the whole house raised hell, then I got kicked out.
america coming haiti kids life script turns
Right now, we're working on a script for my life story and two kids coming from Haiti to America. One turns out to be a musician, one is a gangster. That's all I can say.
album basically realized vibe
I realized you always have to go back to the roots. My vibe for this album was basically here, Brooklyn, and Jersey.
anyone deal man problems
Preval is probably the man who can deal with those problems better than anyone else.
bump company cool dance hall happy record records street
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.
beats best hearing rhythms york
When you're in the Caribbean, you're having the best time, you're hearing a lot of beats and rhythms that you don't hear in New York sometimes, 'cause then you come back and it's snowing.
age-and-aging aware equipment hire learn studio union
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.
bounce carnival country matter music
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.