If those Haitians wanted the money so badly then they probably should have come up with the idea of rapping over other people's hit songs don't you think? Fair is fair. Also, you can't really expect a guy to perform for free at his own charity can you? That's socialism I think.
From the Smoking Gun
From the Smoking Gun
JANUARY 14--The Haiti earthquake has already triggered hundreds of thousands of donations to musician Wyclef Jean's charitable foundation, which expects to raise upwards of $1 million a day in the disaster's wake. However, Internal Revenue Service records show the group has a lackluster history of accounting for its finances, and that the organization has paid the performer and his business partner at least $410,000 for rent, production services, and Jean's appearance at a benefit concert. Though the Wyclef Jean Foundation, which does business as Yele Haiti Foundation, was incorporated 12 years ago--and has been active since that time--the group only first filed tax returns in August 2009.
I suppose the only way something like this could be any worse would be if the profiteers in question were getting paid by the people who destroyed the country in the first place. So, you know, regular US foreign policy. Still though, you have to admit, the way Wyclef sort of changed the beat on "Killing Me Softly" then sold it back to us as a smash hit was some genius, next-level marketing trickery. Maybe we should have seen this coming.
I suppose the only way something like this could be any worse would be if the profiteers in question were getting paid by the people who destroyed the country in the first place. So, you know, regular US foreign policy. Still though, you have to admit, the way Wyclef sort of changed the beat on "Killing Me Softly" then sold it back to us as a smash hit was some genius, next-level marketing trickery. Maybe we should have seen this coming.
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to be fair, in that song i think he did add the lines, one time, two times. revolutionary.
consider this entire post retracted then.
I like his crappy "If you want to sing out, sing out" this is a second rate iphone knockoff commercial with third rate sell-ebrities. Not the coach of the lakers, phil what's his name. Or that dude who skates, or builds choppers or something. Or Whoopi Goldberg. The other version of that commercial - the one where he dances like Pinocchio.
Like a black Pinocchio. Wyclef just wants to be a real boy. Is it a crime to have a foundation for that?
I don't know what any of that means, but I like it. We all just want to be real boys don't we?
except when we want to be real girls.
that's kind of gay.
should probably get around to writing a new post at some point i guess.
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