Wyclef Jean
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Audio interviews
Interview by Gavin Martin, Rock's Backpages Audio, August 2002
From the Fugees to Tom Jones, Haiti's very own Wyclef Jean talks hip hop, crack vs. music, martial arts and Cab Calloway
File format: mp3 File size: 26.4mb Interview length: 28' 50" Sound quality: ****
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Logical Procession: Wyclef Jean Featuring Refugee Allstars: The Carnival (Ruff House)
Review by Angus Batey, New Musical Express, 21 June 1997
A LOT OF RUBBISH has been written about the Fugees since 'Killing Me Softly' elevated them to the dizzying pinnacle of pop stardom, and Wyclef ...
Public Enemy, Cypress Hill et al: Smokin' Grooves Tour, Key Arena, Seattle
Live Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, 12 September 1998
TOKE THAT AND PARTY! ...
Wyclef Jean: House of Blues, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 18 October 1999
Wyclef Jeans Moves Keep 'em Guessing ...
LL Cool J, Canibus and Wyclef Jean: The '4,3,2,1' Beef
Interview by Angus Batey, Hip-Hop Connection, 2000
WHEN CANIBUS recorded a verse for LL Cool J's '4,3,2,1' in 1997, he can hardly have realised what was about to unfold. ...
Wyclef Jean: The Ecleftic: 2 Sides II a Book (Columbia)
Review by Miles Marshall Lewis, The Village Voice, 20 September 2000
EVER HAVE A bright idea, a 1000-watt bulb so blazin that it inevitably slides into the collective consciousness of pop culture? Even if the brainstorm ...
Wyclef Jean: Brixton Academy, London **
Live Review by Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 10 July 2001
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Various Artists: America: A Tribute To Heroes
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, March 2002
Star-Spangled Bummer: Record of benefit concert/telethon for victims of September 11 ...
Tom Jones: 'When You're Working With Bling-Blings, You Gotta Wear Bling-Blings'
Interview by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 17 October 2002
Caroline Sullivan is left breathless by Tom Jones's hip-hop makeover ...
Report and Interview by Angus Batey, Touch, November 2002
SO YOU'RE sitting there, in the London Metropole hotel, chatting to Wyclef Jean about his new LP, Maqsquerade. ...
Interview by Stephen Dalton, The Times, 2 November 2002
What do you get if you cross hip-hop superstar Wyclef Jean with the voice from the Valleys? The most soulful record of Tom Jones's career, ...
Last Night A Record Changed My Life: Wyclef Jean on Bob Dylan's Infidels
Interview by Angus Batey, MOJO, April 2003
I FIRST HEARD Infidels when I was about 15 years old. My brother was away, me and him were in different schools. I was more ...
Wyclef Jean: "I preach to the streets"
Interview by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 28 November 2003
Why did Wyclef Jean help Tom Jones do hip-hop? Why has he got 62 guns? And what's he doing with 20,000 songs on a Dictaphone? ...
Wyclef Jean: The Preacher's Son ****
Review and Interview by Angus Batey, MOJO, December 2003
That "one time, two times" bloke out of the Fugees makes an album for MOJO readers. No, really. ...
Wyclef Jean: "Fans are calling me the new Dylan"
Interview by Dorian Lynskey, The Guardian, 5 December 2010
WHAT SCUPPERED Wyclef Jean's bid to be president of Haiti? Well, it wasn't modesty. On the eve of the election result, the rapper talks death ...
see also Fugees, The
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