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Vote:   | A lot of my music is very reggae- driven. Half of my life Bob Marley was all I listened to. |
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Vote: | A lot of people are afraid to fly. |
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Vote: | All that violence in the world, we need to stop that. |
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Vote: | Back in the days when I was much younger, I used to watch tapes of Earth, Wind & Fire, Parliament, Kool & the Gang, even Cab Calloway. When I came to the States, I thought of those cats. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | Bob Marley stood for universal peace and love. He tried to break racial barriers. |
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Vote: | Carnival II will be a multicultural album, like the Caribbean side of Wyclef, the Haitian side of Wyclef. So if it's 16 songs, eight songs will be in my native tongue with my native rhythms, and the other eight will be in English. |
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Vote: | Clef Records is really eclectic. We have an artist by the name of Aisha from Texas. On Booga Basement, Jerry's label, we have City High. And right now, we're getting ready to sign a rock kid out in Wayne, New Jersey. Young blood; 20 years old. |
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Vote: | Definitely when I got on the plane to go back to Haiti, it was an emotional thing for me. It definitely touched my heart when I landed. I cried. |
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Vote: | Ever since I was a little kid, there used to be the Carnival that used to pass. |
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Vote: | For everybody who lost somebody out there and stuff, when you need therapy, music is the best way. |
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Vote: | For the kids there to see me, to be real poor, they would come up to me, and they didn't want any money, they just wanted to chill, get an autograph, and to conversate. They seemed to think they'd get more out of that than getting a dollar. To me, that was extraordinary. |
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Vote: | Here's my brother, Sam, he's the lawyer; he handles that. Then there's Jerry's brother Renel; he handles the label stuff. We definitely keep it family-oriented. |
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Vote: | I always have a producer to the side of me, and I never want to do a record by myself. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | I believe in time and space, and I believe in that whatever will be, will be-I mean, man, I would love to go into the studio with Pras and Lauryn and just do music with them. I grew up with them. but life goes on. |
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Vote: | I broke the stereotype. Then I picked up the wand and conducted, using my hip-hop vibe. Right there was an experience for me and for them. We are living in a new millennium, a new era. Hip-hop and string instrumentation was brought together. |
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Vote: | I definitely want to participate in more Spring Ting's. It's incredible because you get Reggae, Compas, everything on one stage. I think that's what makes it hot. |
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Vote: | I didn't grow up to call a woman a ho. That's just how I was brought up. I won't call a girl a bitch, unless she wants me to call her a bitch. |
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Vote: | I didn't put it out to sell 50 million records. It's a statement: This is who Wyclef really is. But on the work of The Carnival... it established me as an artist, a producer, someone who can do scores for films, who's versatile in their musical capabilities. |
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Vote: | I do music for the love of it, and I've been doing it from a very young age: about 11. |
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Vote: | I don't only think that you should have your own studio, but you should also have your own studio, your own mastering facility, your own post room so you can cut your own videos. |
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Vote: | I feel that life is short, so we should be disciplined, but at the same time we should have a good time. |
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Vote: | I grew up in a Caribbean family household, so the parents are always right. My father smacked me up 'til I was 20. It was a strict household. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | I know country people who have The Carnival. |
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Vote: | I know that the nice shines I have on is going to pass. The nice cars will pass. All that will stay is the music and the work. That's where I get the inspiration to help people out and work. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | I like Neves. I love the pre's, EQs, compressors; I love the SSL compressors. Those were the things we were looking for. We never imagined that we would have two SSL boards. |
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Vote: | I picked up that whole vibe, and I'm moving toward the future with it: the vibe of Bob Marley, Jimi Hendrix, Curtis Mayfield, that type of thing. Because I'm a musician. I think that my duty is to put out music. |
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Vote: | I realized you always have to go back to the roots. My vibe for this album was basically here, Brooklyn, and Jersey. |
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Vote: | I sequenced the album like a radio station. Around midday, you'll hear more of the commercial hip-hop stuff. When the nighttime comes, you'll hear more of the depth of the records, when the beat stops and we get into the culture and the conscious vibe and the reggae. |
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Vote: | I specialize in lyrics and melodies. I'm good with themes. |
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Vote: | I think it's cool to do stuff in a different language. Basically, I learned English through listening to rap. A lot of people think it's funny. But it's true; I used to try to get the accents. |
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Vote: | I think Lauryn's music is just a reflection of how she feels in her mind, a state of mind of whatever she's in. And me knowing her since she was like 14, I could see. |
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Vote: | I think on the new record you get a concentrated 'Clef, it sort of like you get like 12 songs within a conversation of 30 minutes. It takes you through the rollercoasters and the emotions of life. |
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Vote: | I try to bring something different to all the artists I work with. |
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Vote: | I was a jazz major in high school, in an all-jazz band. No matter what I do, it features my musical influences. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | I'd say that my parents had the biggest influence. My mother and fathe,r who passed away. |
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Vote: | I'm 27 years old. I'm going to go into Hollywood really arrogant. I'll be breaking a lot of rules. It's going to be hot. |
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Vote: | I'm cheap, and I'm proud of it! |
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Vote: | I'm going to do an all-guitar album because I've been playing since I was 13. My Caribbean style mixed with my rock style. I want to do a musicians' album-just the guitar talking with different melodies. |
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Vote: | I'm just a different breed. I love to show off in front of women. That's just the natural breed that I am. I love to show up at a party when there's nobody on the dance floor and get the party started, hijack the DJ, change the music. I'm sort of like a people's person. |
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Vote: | I'm like Cab Calloway: I love the entertainment, and I've loved entertaining people ever since I was little. |
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Vote: | I'm not going away fast; I've been around for a while, and plan to be around for a while more. |
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Vote: | I'm not really for events that say this is a Reggae event, or this is a Compas event, or this is so-and-so. |
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Vote: | I'm speaking as Wyclef the adult, and then as Wyclef the young man. |
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Vote: | I'm the hip-hop Quincy Jones of today. |
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Vote: | I'm the King of Spring Ting! Without 'Clef you can't have no Spring Ting! |
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Vote: | I've been communicating with the Fugees, and it feels a lot better now than it did three or four years ago. |
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Vote: | I've known Clinton for probably the last year that he was in office and stuff. The vibe that I always got from Clinton was, you-know, he never gave me a president-vibe. |
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Vote: | If I did something for Will Smith vs. something for Canibus, it's two different things. |
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Vote: | In the beginning I had women problems, 'cause you know, I represent for the guys. But I was actin' a fool, whilin' out. I'm not sayin' I don't while out anymore. I'm not gonna lie to you. |
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Vote: | In the next seven years, we plan to just take over the whole industry. |
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Vote: | It was hard in the beginning: coming from Haiti, coming to Brooklyn. I mean, growing up in the projects. |
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Vote: | It was important that I became successful. People say they do it for the love, and yes, you do it for the love, but you want to be successful. |
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Vote: | It was important to me to go back to the grungy, because all of a sudden you get excited again, 'cause there's another whole dimension of 'Clef that you wasn't expecting to hear. |
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Vote: | It's ike being in college and being undecided about your major. As soon as you choose your major, you focus in on it. |
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Vote: | It's not fake. I don't need to go in the studio, throw in a record, do a loop and put it out. To find an artist, you've gotta find the artist that brings it to you. There has to be a 50/50 balance. |
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Vote: | Look out for the Caribbean side of Wyclef too. We're trying to push the style of music called Compas. That's the kind of style from our country. You know how you have Reggae, Soca, and all that; so we feel that the beat that we've got can bounce in all parts of the world too. |
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Vote: | Masquerade was on the Net for like four months, five months before it came out. Right now, everyone's trying to see if they can come up with a code where they can prevent that from happening. |
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Vote: | Me and my father went through a war period where we wasn't talking. He wanted me to go to theology school-I didn't want to go. I wanted to do music. I told him I was a minister through music. |
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Vote: | My accomplishment has helped millions of kids see that they can come from a poor family and go somewhere, make something out of themselves. I've been doing it for seven years professionally. |
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Vote: | My dad didn't want to hear that you was going into the studio-you came back late at night and he didn't understand that, that theory didn't exist in his mind. |
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Vote: | My grandfather was a voodoo priest. A lot of my life dealt with spirituality. I can close my eyes and remember where I come from. |
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Vote: | My parents were Christian. |
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Vote: | My songs are really never titled. Sometimes I call it one thing. then I change it. |
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Vote: | No matter how far you go, if you can't go back to the essence, you're not sayin' nothin'. The essence for me is hip-hop. But the hip-hop community I came up in isn't a loyal community. |
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Vote: | On all my records, I just write about what people are going through, so when I go through the airport, I'm going through what you're going through. So I write it just like we go through it. |
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Vote: | Our dream was always to get an SSL. I would say everyone that I'm in the business with-whether it's Carlos Santana, Whitney, Michael Jackson, different people - everyone loves the sound of the SSL. |
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Vote: | Our music is more rebel music. We do music for society, for humanity, to help and to heal. |
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Vote: | Pras, my partner, was coming around with watches, cars, Ferraris-and people would see me walking and be shocked! |
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Vote: | Puffy's got Daddy House. Everyone is starting in line. I think with everything that's going on in the world today - financially and the economics of society - it's very important to be self-sufficient with your business. |
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Vote: | Rap records don't make you feel good no more. Six months after release, it can't come back as a classic. |
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Vote: | Right now I'm trying to help my sister with her school situation, 'cause she's real smart. Besides me, my other brother's a lawyer... my parents stressed education a lot. |
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Vote: | Right now I've got to do something with Carlos Santana, getting ready to come out with Jerry Wonder's group City High. |
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Vote: | Right now, I've got the lead in what I'm doing. I'm in the best position. No one expects me to come in at number one, and I'm not concerned with it either. Let me come in at number 20, I'll be happy. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | So now you have a generation where like that, so if you want the Compas to work, you have to make sure that there's enough Reggae beats in it, there's enough Hip-Hop in it, there's enough lyrical continuity in it. The kids love lyrics, so I think the future for Compas is fusion. |
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Vote: | Some girls get turned on by being called a bitch. |
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Vote: | Steve Marley's like my brother. When you see Steve, ask him about me, he'll tell you. That's like my little brother, you-know-what-I'm-saying? |
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Vote: | Stevie Wonder, Eric Clapton, everybody was there, but when I got on the stage and I looked at the balcony and I saw this man with the beard and stuff, I just stopped the show. I was like, Yo, my dad is here! It was the coolest thing. Those are the memories that keep the smile on my face. |
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Vote: | That's the best way to feed the human mind. That's how Bob Marley did it. He never put it in your face. After you got the groove, you were just singing the hooks, because you thought it was cool. |
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Vote: | That's this new kid Governor, he sounds just like Marvin Gaye. And he's like only 23. We have another kid, Prolific. |
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Vote: | The Compas rhythm is a very unique style rhythm which we feel is gonna take the world by storm. |
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Vote: | The last rocker out of Jersey was Bon Jovi, right? You haven't seen some new young blood. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | There's a series of albums that I want to do. |
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Vote: | There's not a hip-hop artist that didn't snatch of piece of Bob Marley. It's totally impossible. |
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Vote: | There's nothing to be arrogant about. I'm not trying to impress anyone. I'm just trying to do music for people who go to work and hate their boss. Or people who hate to work at Burger King. Or bosses who are tired of their employees. It's called doing music for everyone. It's feelgood music. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | This is the first album where I'm explaining the accomplishments of Wyclef and what he accomplished and where he came from... So this album right here is sort of my maze through the projects, and how I got out and became this conscious person. |
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Vote: | We do a lot of the Reggae and Hip-Hop stuff, so I think the future of Compas is fusion. Fusion means that the young kids are listening to Hip-Hop and Reggae as well as Compas. |
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Vote: | We got the Platinum Sound formula. |
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Vote: | We just dropped some very honest lyrics about where we come from and what's going on. |
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Vote: | We produce, and we have producers we work with. |
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Vote: | We toured with the Marleys. To me, Steve Marley sounds a lot like his dad. |
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Vote: | We try to bring a lot of live musicianship to the music. A lot of grooves. We're Caribbean; we from the islands. Out of the music industry, I'd say we're the Caribbean producers of the world. |
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Vote: | We're fortunate enough to work with everybody when they're just getting started. |
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Vote: | We're trying to be one of the Number One studios in New York City, which we are. |
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Vote: | What I picked up on Michael Jackson - because I study people when I watch them - the way that he counts his rhythm with his feet and his neck at the same time is crazy... so he's hearing multiple things at once. And I don't know anybody who does that. |
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Vote: | What I'm trying to do is break the genre from what is rap and what is music. |
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Vote: | When I did Ecleftic, which was a multicultural album, the effort for that was to show that Wyclef could do a Pink Floyd cover and still have a street beat in the background. |
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Vote: | When I first heard Bob Marley I was 12 years old. I had just come to the United States from Haiti, and was living in the Marlborough Houses in Brooklyn. |
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Vote: | When I go into the studio... I want it to say something, but at the same time, I want the chicks to dig it. It's got to be sexy. |
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Vote: | When I have to make records for people and records for myself, it's two different approaches. |
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Vote: | When I lose touch with the audience and the reality of what life really is, I'll be Vanilla Ice or something. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | When I worked at BK... You can't eat and work at the same time, or you'll get fired... The managers, they need to talk to their employees a little better. They don't respect you, they act like you don't have a future. |
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Vote: | When I'm rhyming it's all in my head... Like the slaves, when they were picking cotton, they would block out their minds. They would sing. |
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Vote: | When I'm working with other people, I know they come to me to get them to pop off. Me, though, I'm not a pop-off artist, I'm an artiste. Wyclef or the Fugees are not those type of artists. |
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Vote: | When it comes down to myself, it's always a fight with my creativity. |
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Vote: | When the Fugees were big, we made a whole lot of money, and what happened was that I saved my money and never spent it. |
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Vote: | When they're young, rock 'n' rollers stand in front of the mirror and pose with a broom instead of a guitar. I used to stand and be Bob Marley, singing and strumming the broom in a reggae style. |
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Vote: | When we produce our stuff, we're cool. But when you're producing artists, you take the role of a psychiatrist - a musical psychiatrist. You have to work slowly with an artist to show them how to do it. It's all about just doing the best music for the individual. |
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Vote: | When we was younger we would clean bathrooms with my father in a hotel, and the cover bands that was playing at the Ramada Inn, they would be playing all these songs... me and my brother forgot we were cleaning bathrooms-we would grab a plunger and do our own karaoke in the bathroom. |
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Vote: | When you get a Wyclef/Jerry Wonda record, don't count on it sounding like anything that you'll hear out there. You have two choices: You will either like it or not like it. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | When you pick up The Carnival, you get the big genre. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | You can hear Bob Marley if you listen to Lauryn Hill. Some of the stuff that No Doubt's doing with that reggae vibe, you can hear that little Marley influence. Another person I love, who I hear a lot of Marley in sometimes, is Sting. |
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Vote: | You come to our father's church, we would be playing, rocking that place upside-down. So he wanted us always to stay in that realm, and do education. But I sort of like drifted, 'cause I grew up with a lot of street cats, so hip-hop was one of my loves. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | You get quick money, it's beautiful, there's sunshine, but at the end of the day, you find out it's all a masquerade, baby. It's not what it seems. |
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Vote: | 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. |
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Vote: | You have to stand back and see the collective of what everyone is doing. That's what keeps it special and keeps it right. What Puffy's doing, Wu-Tang. It's a circle. That's what keeps it interesting. |
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Vote: | You never really know how you come to the earth, it's really a mystery, and when you leave, it's sort of a mystery too-but somehow, whoever you're a part of, you have a natural connection with them, and if you tune in, you can tell if they're still here or they're not. |