I lived in the projects and the ghetto, and turned the negative into a positive.

There's not a hip-hop artist that didn't snatch of piece of Bob Marley. It's totally impossible.

The first thing you must learn is to always treat a man and a woman with total respect and honor, 'cause if you do that, the legacy you will leave behind will be work.

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

Coming from Haiti and growing up in Brooklyn, there's a lot of European influence when I get dressed up. I wear a lot of fitted suits, elegant cuts; I think it's cool to mash up a lot of different looks.

I do music for the love of it, and I've been doing it from a very young age: about 11.

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.