Word: wyclef
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hill is one of the performers set to take hip-hop into the new millennium. Born and raised in South Orange, N.J., she met her fellow Fugees, Pras and Wyclef Jean, in high school, then spent two years at Columbia University before dropping out to pursue music. On the old-school-funky Every Ghetto, Every City, one of Miseducation's best tracks, she pledges to remember her roots: "Way before the record deal/ The streets that nurtured Lauryn Hill/ Made sure that I'd never go too far." Hill isn't out to create bourgeois hip-hop lite; she constantly...
...WYCLEF AIMS HIGH...
Does the Committee to Protect Journalists have a critics' chapter? WYCLEF JEAN, a member of the band the Fugees (biggest hit: Killing Me Softly with His Song), reportedly pulled a gun on a magazine editor over a bad review of a rap band he's producing. "For some reason, sometimes hip-hop artists, they seem to feel like they can operate outside the rules of normalcy," said Jesse Washington, editor of the new magazine Blaze. Jean denied the allegation on MTV. "Wyclef Jean pulls no gun. Wyclef Jean plays guitars, and I have love for my family, respect...
...clad in de rigeur black, chattered at downtown hot spot Moomba, overhearing cell phone conversation about West Coast casting, Oscar gossip and the upcoming Seventh on Sixth fashion shows in Bryant Park. As ever, the eight dollar martini called for "drinks at the bar with my American Express," as Wyclef puts...
Nevertheless, The Carnival puts Wyclef up there with Billy Corgan, Trent Reznor and Tricky as one of the most creative people working in pop music. Too often, hip-hop has only a street-level view of reality. On The Carnival, Wyclef is out to conquer the world...