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krysreads's review
4.0
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My final thoughts:
By the last few chapters the book is narrated back to a more current situation, the hurricane. The relief initiative Wyclef organized to help his people. The scandals and the news and rumours that revolved around it.
Wyclef has a young daughter and to paraphrase he wrote it because eventually she’ll be able to read everything that’s on the internet about her father, and he figured he should lay it all out before this happened.
I wouldn’t blame him. No father should have a reason to hide his life from his own blood. He wasn’t involved in the mob or anything excessive, he was a kid who met amazing people who allowed him to grow up mentally and lyrically, grew up listening to “bum music” and producing albums that have songs that mean more than just one thing to more than just two people.
If you’re a fan or supporter of Wyclef Jean, I think you will enjoy and possibly be inspired that you are able to accomplish anything as long as you are able to put your whole into it.
My final thoughts:
By the last few chapters the book is narrated back to a more current situation, the hurricane. The relief initiative Wyclef organized to help his people. The scandals and the news and rumours that revolved around it.
Wyclef has a young daughter and to paraphrase he wrote it because eventually she’ll be able to read everything that’s on the internet about her father, and he figured he should lay it all out before this happened.
I wouldn’t blame him. No father should have a reason to hide his life from his own blood. He wasn’t involved in the mob or anything excessive, he was a kid who met amazing people who allowed him to grow up mentally and lyrically, grew up listening to “bum music” and producing albums that have songs that mean more than just one thing to more than just two people.
If you’re a fan or supporter of Wyclef Jean, I think you will enjoy and possibly be inspired that you are able to accomplish anything as long as you are able to put your whole into it.
rembrandt1881's review
3.0
This album is a 3 but I think just barely. There are some good things in this book like Wyclef describing his childhood and influences. But the chapter where he starts about the Score drags as he can't seem to really articulate about his relationship with Lauryn Hill. In one sense it does illuminate the difficulty and confusion they shared but it doesn't help with the process of understanding a lot of what went on. He also neglects to give us many stories about working with people outside of The Fugees. I do like how he talks about Haiti and his decisions regarding his home country as well. In all of that it still feels like something is lacking in this book at some point.
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