Carnival Vol. II - Memoirs of an Immigrant

When you put on Carnival II, you’re going to feel like you live in the era of what’s going on currently at the time. It’s like CNN and BBC, but the Carnival II brings it to you through music. You’re going to be able to understand how I feel the world is and how it should be. We always talk about destruction, but we don’t talk about hope. So this album, we’re not just saying they got gangbangers on every block. We not saying that. We’re saying if y’all put YMCAs in these communities, maybe you’d get a different outlook.

Wyclef Jean via Prefix

This album to me is like when Bob Marley did his Exodus and Marvin Gaye did What’s Going On. This is my version of the CNN or the BBC — hate, passion — going through my eyes.

Wyclef Jean via Entertainment