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
people records
When I have to make records for people and records for myself, it's two different approaches.
annoys definitely line sneakers
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.
losing therapy
I had to make this album. It was my therapy after losing my dad. If I didn't have music, I'd probably be strung-out somewhere.
coming growing hard
It was hard in the beginning: coming from Haiti, coming to Brooklyn. I mean, growing up in the projects.
jersey last rocker seen
The last rocker out of Jersey was Bon Jovi, right? You haven't seen some new young blood.
pick sponge tough
He rules, he's real tough when it comes to business. I'm like a sponge right now. I know I can pick up things from him.
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.
smile character people
I always want to know what's wrong with you, why you ain't smiling. That's just my character; I just love people and want to see people having a good time.
no-excuses projects huts
I come from a hut, from a hut I went to the projects, from the projects I went to a mansion so you out there you have ABSOLUTLY NO EXCUSE!
america missing melting
America is a melting pot of immigrants. So actually, if you took all of the immigrants outside of America, you'd be missing a lot of flavor, starting with the food, with the culture, with the dance, with everything.
violence needs world
All that violence in the world, we need to stop that