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Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond

Wyclef Jean Goes Back To School

Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond

Pushkin Industries

Music, Society & Culture

4.54.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2019

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Wyclef Jean, who's had solo hits and with the Fugees, and produced hits for Destiny's Child, Shakira, and Carlos Santana came back this year with a new project, "Wyclef Goes Back To School." Every song is a collaboration with college-aged musicians—his way of giving back but also appealing to a whole new generation of kids. Host and producer Justin Richmond \talks to Wyclef about his latest effort, about his childhood in Haiti, moving to the U.S. and reflects on his own childhood listening to the Fugees.

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0:00.0

Here in the Fuji 2nd album, the score is the first time I remember not just liking

0:29.1

the music but loving it. Fuji Law, Killin Me Softly, Ready or Not will come on the radio

0:34.1

and I'd get goose bumps. I still get goose bumps hearing Lauren

0:44.0

help sing that hook. There's something absolutely timeless about the music

0:47.6

Wycliffe created with Lauren and Praz as the Fuji's, same as the Beatles, same as

0:51.7

Stevie Wonder. That's how high I rate this music. So when Wycliffe's John pulled

0:56.1

up to the studio where he recorded this interview, I was nervous. I mean I was

0:59.8

bugging. But lucky for me, Wycliffe is one of the coolest people ever. I'll put it

1:04.0

like this. Wycliffe is supposed to bring his guitar to the interview. Somehow

1:07.5

the message never got to him. Instead of throwing a fit or bailing on the interview,

1:10.9

he said, just find a guitar, I'll play it. I can play any guitar. Sure enough, we found

1:15.4

the most janky guitar in a nearby office. It's one of those guitars you buy for a kid

1:19.1

who says they want to play guitar but you're not sure they're gonna stick with it.

1:21.9

One of those. But he was happy to play it. You literally gotta keep tuning it, you know,

1:26.8

because the wood has been. It's like bad wood. Yeah. You know, after a while when you

1:33.0

don't play it, you become a man. This is the dude who wrote a hit song for Carlos Santana.

1:36.6

Remember Maria Maria? And here he is miraculously tuning this junky guitar. Which he plays during

1:42.5

this episode.

1:45.0

This is Broken Record Season 3. Liner Notes for the Digital Age. I'm Justin Richmond.

1:57.0

I need my first instance. What's your first instance?

1:59.3

I'll write bass. I'll write bass.

2:01.3

Yeah.

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