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🗓️ 20 August 2017
⏱️ 183 minutes
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Wyclef Jean is a Haitian musician whose band, the Fugees, hit it big in the mid-1990s with 'The Score.' He is a renowned rapper, producer, activist and actor. He has won 3 Grammy awards and sold over 31 millions albums.
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0:00.0 | We used to be number 10, now we permanent and one in the battle lost my finger. |
0:06.0 | Music to me is just a spiritual vibration, so when it gets to hear it, it fills your soul. |
0:16.0 | I'm from the impossible. |
0:18.0 | I'm from a place where I took Don Qui to school. |
0:20.0 | I lived in a hut. I had no idea what electricity was. |
0:29.0 | In my mind though I was like yo I'm gonna be something and I'm gonna be somebody. |
0:34.0 | Yo, I'm gonna be somebody. |
0:38.0 | Yo, going to America for the first time see an airplane. |
0:45.0 | A airplane. |
0:46.0 | It was like a culture shock. |
0:50.0 | Like we land in this place, we can't speak no English. |
0:54.0 | How did I survive it? |
0:59.0 | The gang that I ended up in was a gang called hip-hop. |
1:03.0 | When you make that much money and everyone is telling you yes, |
1:11.0 | then you start to ask yourself what is it that you really want. |
1:15.0 | We had an earthquake in Haiti, 250,000 people under the rubble. |
1:31.6 | The minute we stepped out the airport it was purely apocalypse. |
1:35.0 | A tsunami of death. |
1:40.0 | I said I'm going to run to become president of my country. |
1:48.0 | People are chosen for different things and when you get that fame and that responsibility |
1:58.5 | you go holy shit I finally understand we all are really connected and the sense of life is purpose. |
2:07.0 | You can't run away from these styles like I got oh baby. Hey baby because I got a lot |
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