{"id":21882,"date":"1999-09-08T00:00:03","date_gmt":"1999-09-08T05:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=21882"},"modified":"2017-01-26T14:54:51","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T19:54:51","slug":"wyclef-jean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/1999\/09\/08\/wyclef-jean\/","title":{"rendered":"Rap artist Wyclef Jean to perform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rap artist Wyclef Jean, whose recordings with the Fugees include the multi-platinum CD <em>The Score<\/em>, will perform with the Refugee All Stars at Bates College at 8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 24, in the Clifton Daggett Gray Athletic Building. Tickets are $22 and may be purchased through Bull Moose Music stores starting Thursday, Sept. 9. Tickets are also available at Bates College in Chase Hall beginning Thursday, Sept. 9, from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. weekdays until the concert. Call 207-795-7496 for more information. <!--more-->The darling of rap aficionados and MTV viewers alike, Jean says his work brings the plight of American ghetto youth to a worldwide audience while putting humor in the hip-hop ethos.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hardcore is supposed to be a reflection of hard times,&#8221; Jean said. &#8220;I think we forgot all about that when we got caught up in the image of hardcore, not hard times. We got caught up in the image of &#8216;We gonna be mad, we ain&#8217;t gonna dance&#8217; and to me that&#8217;s fake.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jean&#8217;s interest in pumping up the fun in hip-hop is grounded in his move from the impoverished streets of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, to Brooklyn, N.Y., when he was 9 years old. Brooklyn&#8217;s thugs, by comparison to those in his violent homeland, were an easy target for satire.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When you a kid growing up in Brooklyn, you have two choices, you don&#8217;t have three,&#8221; he said. &#8220;You could either choose to do something artistic, whether it&#8217;s music, writing or whatever, or you choose to be in the other life. There ain&#8217;t no middle. My mother just geared me toward the music, so the streets wasn&#8217;t that much peer pressure for me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jean&#8217;s self-produced CD <em>The Carnival<\/em> features &#8220;Gone Till November,&#8221; which he composed and conducted for the 62-piece New York Philharmonic Orchestra. His haunting and metaphoric &#8220;Apocalypse&#8221; and &#8220;Year of the Dragon&#8221; reveal a pre-millennial society on the brink of calamity. The CD also features autobiographical tracks such as &#8220;Gun Powder,&#8221; which recounts the murder of a cousin who spoke against the social injustices practiced by Haiti&#8217;s then ruling body.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I release frustration through my music. And my story is the story of over a million men,&#8221; Jean said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rap artist Wyclef Jean, whose recordings with the Fugees include the multi-platinum CD &#8220;The Score,&#8221; will perform with the Refugee All Stars at Bates College at 8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 24, in the Clifton Daggett Gray Athletic Building. Tickets are $22 and may be purchased through Bull Moose Music stores starting Thursday, Sept. 9. Tickets are also available at Bates College in Chase Hall Thursday, Sept. 9 from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. weekdays until the concert. 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