Video: Wyclef Jean performing "Immigrant" on Def Poetry

Today Wyclef Jean wants to be the President of Haiti, but in 1983 Wyclef came to the US as Haitian immigrant. In a wonderful performance in the show Def Poetry in 2005 he talks about this experience and about his love for his country Haiti. To quote him "To live for yourself is to live selfishly to live for others is to live eternally."

So I hope that he will get a change to become the President of Haiti.

Video: The live of a black street musician in Paris

Always wanted to know what it’s like being a street musician in Paris, but were afraid to ask? You'll get the answer from guitar player Nikerson from Haiti. In the video he talks about his live in Paris, about his frustration, and about his dreams. An interesting video with scenes from the streets of Paris. See part two here

The video is from a very interesting blog called Beta Bahil. Beta Bahil wants to develop, market and distribute African cultural media and products worldwide. African, in this case, means anyone of African descent in or out of the continent.

Video: Wyclef Jean - Yéle

Spotted on the blog AfroSpear

Yele is a song from the hip hop Album (1997) entitled "Wyclef Jean Presents The Carnival Featuring Refugee All Stars", or more simply The Carnival. It was Wyclef Jean's first solo album

The album features guest artists such as including Celia Cruz, The Neville Brothers and Jean's bandmates from The Fugees, Lauryn Hill and Pras.

The album features skits between many of its songs, most of them set in a fictional trial for Wyclef Jean, in which he is accused of being "a player and a bad influence".

The final three songs are sung in Haitian Creole.

The album sold over 5 million copies worldwide, and was RIAA certified 2x Platinum (source wikipedia)

It's sad to see that Wyclef now has to defend himself against allegations of misappropriated funds from his Yéle Haiti Foundation. The charity foundation is used to raise money for the victims of the earthquake in Haiti. See the full story on all Hip hop.

Haiti earthquake footage on The Haitian Blogger

Translation: The woman is speaking French, saying: There was an earthquake, she's not injured, but a few things in her house have been broken... she's pointing to a fire (we can only see the smoke) and she repeats she is OK and the other girl is too... in English she says, "The world is coming to an end."

The Haitian Blogger

Earthquake leaves Haiti ‘worse than a war zone’

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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Haitians piled bodies along the devastated streets of their capital Wednesday after the strongest earthquake to hit the poor Caribbean nation in more than 200 years crushed thousands of structures, from schools and shacks to the National Palace and the U.N. peacekeeping headquarters. Untold numbers were still trapped.

The devastation was so complete that it seemed likely the death toll from Tuesday afternoon's magnitude-7.0 quake would run into the thousands.

International Red Cross spokesman Paul Conneally said an estimated 3 million people may have been affected by the quake and that it would take a day or two for a clear picture of the damage to emerge.

First a senseless war and now this.