My dad was in the hood, he was a minister, and he would always put churches in the ghetto.

When you enter the realm of politics, you don't enter it because you want to be popular. When I want to be popular, I pull on a guitar and sing a song.

All that violence in the world, we need to stop that

I'm hands-on with everything, always trying to reach the real people.

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.

A lot of my music is very reggae- driven. Half of my life Bob Marley was all I listened to.

What a lot of people don't know is that Wyclef started off as a battle rapper, when he decided that he would rhyme.