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Wyclef Jean , The Ambassador, The Legendary Musician, The Chosen One

In Haitians on March 30, 2009 at 4:26 am

By Francesca Guerrier

“He’s bigger then Obama to me, I’d take a bullet for Clef”. Wow! That’s some real deep brotherly love, Hearing Buggah D Govanah talking about Wyclef Jean reminds me of the old Sicilian loyalty. You Definitely do not find too many soldiers so dedicated to their homies nowadays, but sometimes you do.

We arrive at the studio, Wyclef exchange a few words with Buggah in Creole, and then greets me! I sense he’s non- pretence attitude. You don’t know what thoughts goes inside the mind of a musician of his size , but I feel, I can see through him! Now he does remind me of the simplicity yet power of a figure like President Obama, I think while I observe him sipping on his Turkish coffee.

Dj Khaled arrives while Wyclef is seated on the bench of the kitchen eating the dinner Buggah picked up on the way to studio. I begin taking some pictures and check my camera and the lights, all of a sudden I think how comfortable I‘ve been feeling since the time I arrived at We The Best Studio! There are several artist in here, but not divas, simply cool talents!!

Mecca aka Grimo arrives too, and I feel even more comfortable now, since I last interviewed him for the Newspaper I felt a deep amount of realness within him too.
The Runners are working on the track and Clef holds his guitar while sings on his upcoming new Hit (GUARANTEED)!!

The song talks about a teenager girl who’s act older then her age due to the issues of low self-esteem she has because of her broken family ..all she would of needed is a simple compliment from an adult to emphasize her beauty and notice her. This song is in the making, yet is already so damn powerful, I have to go outside the room every now and then to fight back my tears of emotions.
I tell Buggah, I have to go home soon and can’t stay too long, the truth is, I don’t want to break down in front of these people I just met!! How embarrassing would that be!! There’s something about Clef though, the only song of his I can think of that didn’t get so much and many emotions out of me is Party to Damascus he made with Missy Elliott!!

I see Dj Khaled closing his eyes and commenting on the beauty of this song several times, I lean closer to Mecca and tell him the song is giving me the chills, he too nods in silence. The Super star, walk is in and out to record his addlibs and he exchange a few words in Creole with his Haitian brothers, Khaled comments of the fact he should learn Creole because of how often Clef speaks in his native language, that’s realness right there, it’s obvious he never forgot where he comes from and he doesn’t do it only in front of the cameras.

Four hours after he started working on his song , Wycleff takes a 2 minutes break, to wear the Free Haiti Now T-shirt and take some pictures with some of his zoes!

Not only he’s a music legend, producer and filmmaker but he’s The Ambassador of Haiti. I met him a few weeks back at a rally the Haitian Community organized demanding to Stop Deportations Back to Haiti, he sent a message of Hope and Encouragement to our Haitian Youth suggesting to get politically involved . So many hats to wear for one man, but he does wear them and do it well.

His concern is the security of Haiti Buggah explains to me in the car, and that people has food in their belly. The sanitation of the island and the rights of Haitians in the United States.

Wycleff Jean gave a voice to Haiti, to Jamaica, to New Jersey, to Brooklyn, Miami, African Americans To the whole United States, to teenagers, to refugees, to Deportees, to love and to those who lost, to ghettos and to people, to all different people that comes from every walk of life, you don’t need to be Haitian to feel his music, you have to be a Human Being with a heart to feel and a mind to overstand his lyrics.


This upcoming song will give you the chills like no other song!


Bon chans Wyclef sou nouveau mizik e plus suces e tout fanmi ou