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 pick up The Carnival, you get the big genre.
building man million
We're building a movement, a one million man movement.
artists biggest money musicians opposed owned pay people rather spend studios
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.
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.
chess conflicts
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.
ali born good gotta move talk walk
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.
dropped honest lyrics
We just dropped some very honest lyrics about where we come from and what's going on.
number studios trying york
We're trying to be one of the Number One studios in New York City, which we are.
club exact girls giving gonna looking next realize town type value week
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.
gone hours leaving school sleeping three
When you're sleeping or getting up to go to school, that's when we're just leaving the studio, and we'll be gone for three hours and then come back and be working another 15 to 20 hours.
artist bob calm dance marley middle throw thugs
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.
ground
There are celebrities who have charities, but you don't see them on the ground. Angelina is on the ground doing things.
everybody fortunate work
We're fortunate enough to work with everybody when they're just getting started.
figure gotta investing money spent studio time videos
When you're an artist, if you get a 10-year run-some are over 10 years - and you're successful, if you make over $20 million, then you gotta figure the money that you dished out and you spent on videos and studio time and all that stuff, you were just better off investing $4 or $5 million.