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Wyclef Jeanelle Jean (/ˈwaɪklɪf ˈʒɑːn/; Haitian Creole pronunciation: [wajklɛf ʒã]; born October 17, 1969) is a Haitian American musician, record producer, and politician. At age nine, Jean moved to the United States with his family and has spent much of his life in the country. He first received fame as a member of the acclaimed New Jersey hip hop group the Fugees.
On August 5, 2010, Jean filed for candidacy in the 2010 Haitian presidential election, although the Electoral Commission subsequently ruled him ineligible to stand as he had not met the requirement to have been resident in Haiti for five years.
Although his birth date was widely given as October 17, 1972, papers filed for his run as a candidate for the presidency of Haiti, disclosed that he was, in fact, born in 1969. Born in Croix-des-Bouquets, Haiti, the son of a Nazarene pastor, Wyclef moved with his family to Brooklyn, New York, when he was nine before moving again to northern New Jersey. Jean has cited reggae artist Bigga Haitian as one of his early influences, as well as neighborhood heroes MC Tiger Paw Raw and producer Lobster v. Crab. Jean graduated from Vailsburg High School in Newark, briefly attended Eastern Nazarene College in Massachusetts, and finished one semester at Five Towns College in New York. Jean has been a resident of Saddle River, South Orange, and North Caldwell, New Jersey. In 2009, Jean enrolled in the Berklee College of Music.
Dwayne Michael Carter, Jr. (born September 27, 1982), better known by his stage name Lil Wayne, is an American rapper. At the age of nine, Lil Wayne joined Cash Money Records as the youngest member of the label, and half of the duo, The B.G.'z, with B.G.. In 1997, Lil Wayne joined the group Hot Boys, which also included rappers Juvenile, B.G., and Young Turk. Hot Boys debuted with Get It How U Live! that year. Lil Wayne gained most of his success with the group's major selling album Guerrilla Warfare, released in 1999. Also in 1999, Lil Wayne released his Platinum debut album Tha Block Is Hot, selling over one million copies in the U.S.
Although his next two albums Lights Out (2000) and 500 Degreez (2002) were not as successful (only reaching Gold status), Lil Wayne reached higher popularity in 2004 with Tha Carter, which included the single "Go D.J." Wayne also appeared on the Destiny's Child top ten single "Soldier" that year. In 2005, the sequel to Tha Carter, Tha Carter II, was released. In 2006 and 2007, Lil Wayne released several mixtapes and appeared on several popular rap and R&B singles. His most successful album, Tha Carter III, was released in 2008 and sold over 1 million copies in the U.S. its first week of release. It included the number-one single "Lollipop" featuring Static Major. It also includes the singles "A Milli" and "Got Money" featuring T-Pain and won the Grammy Award for Best Rap Album.
Actors: Danny John-Jules (actor), Don Warrington (actor), Sebastian Street (actor), Barrie Martin (actor), Mike Archer (actor), Mouthanna Al-Sayegh (editor), Irene Maffei (miscellaneous crew), Liza Callinicos (actress), Anna-Maria Wiktorsson (actress), Elom Bell (director), Chris Brazier (actor), Charlie Gibson (miscellaneous crew), Elom Bell (producer), Elom Bell (writer), Luisa Guerreiro (actress),
Plot: This film is a tale of two halves the first half tells the story of Kane and Abel, two small time hoods, who are having a documentary made about them, by a pretty 18 year old A-Level student called Abigail Adams. Things take a turn for the worst when Kane and Abel take Abigail hostage, after they pull off a heist for one of the world's largest diamonds. Against Abel's wishes, Kane keeps Abigail alive and insists on her filming everything they get up to. They use their money to set up and run a large scale crystal meth factory and 'retail outlet', when they take over an almost abandoned block of flats. In parallel to this, we see the story of a voodoo priest called Wyclef, from the block next door, as he goes through the traditional ritual of helping his dead wife's soul pass over to the spirit world, a year and a day after her death. Apart from the occasional attempted break in and meth addicts willing to trade sex for drugs, Kane and Abel's retail empire grows swiftly, with the help of their resident chemist's Phillippe and his partner Simeon and a junky with an unknown past called Sparky, who works on getting all of the locals hooked on the meth. This take a serious turn when Wyclef get's mixed up in something he can't control and Kane and Abel are left to fight off furious junkys, who cant get enough of their product.
Keywords: abduction, drugs, gore, gun, home-video, london-england, teen-horror, urban-setting, voodooActors: Kevin Hart (actor), Charles Q. Murphy (actor), Kevin Hart (actor), Kevin Hart (actor), Jay-Z (actor), Darryl McDaniels (actor), Kevin Hart (actor), Flavor Flav (actor), Kevin Hart (actor), Damon Dash (actor), Sean Combs (actor), Jim Fullington (actor), Carson Daly (actor), Charles Q. Murphy (actor), Charles Q. Murphy (actor),
Plot: A young journalist, David Katz, who writes for a hip-hop magazine called "Mic Check", starts following a music mogul around as part of a story and over time incorrectly starts to think he is part of that world, which leads to him writing an article for a gossip newspaper that starts a rivalry between the producer and his most famous rapper.
Keywords: hip-hop, rap