Why the hell was Wyclef Jean speaking in a Jamaican accent on TI's You know what it is ?

[Homey the clown]

I have heard this song probably a thousand times and to this day, I don't get why Wyclef Jean who's Haitian was speaking in a Jamaican accent.

 

[MoveForward]

He has always been a wannabe Jamaican..

 

[Billy Ocean]

Fake yardie.

 

[thaKEAF]

The better question is why TIP followed up his biggest album to date with this shyt?

 

[smokeurobinson]

There's a reason LL Cool J did the song Rasta Imposter

 

[FeloniousMonk]

He has always been a wannabe Jamaican..

Even L.Boogie said when she first met him, he spoke with a heavy patois..

Then she found out he was Haitian like

 

[doggy]

lol who cares it sounds cool and thats probably why he does it. No one is criticizing Krayzie Bone when he does that shyt

 

[Zero]

There's a reason he and Dylan connected so well on Making The Band

 

[Zero]

lol who cares it sounds cool and thats probably why he does it. No one is criticizing Krayzie Bone when he does that shyt

Ya'll smell something?

 

[Sccit]

lol who cares it sounds cool and thats probably why he does it. No one is criticizing Krayzie Bone when he does that shyt

OR DJ QUIK, DEVIN THE DUDE, DAZ, BUSTA RHYMES + ANY OF THE COUNTLESS RAPPERS WHO BEEN DOIN IT SINCE THE BEGINNING OF TIME

USIN A FAKE JAMAICAN ACCENT BEEN A STAPLE IN RAP MUSIC. THESE CACS DONT HEAR ME THO.

 

[smokeurobinson]

BUSTA RHYMES + ANY OF THE COUNTLESS RAPPERS WHO BEEN DOIN IT SINCE THE BEGINNING OF TIME

Busta has Jamaican parents. More then likely he was raised around the accent.

 

[Damnshow]

Forty-nine pounds and trying to be a monster
Run around town with the Bob Marley imposters
Ask Canibus, he ain't understanding this
Cause 99% of his fans, don't exist

 

[CrimsonTider]

The better question is why TIP followed up his biggest album to date with this shyt?

For as much as TI talks about jail and other things slowing down his mainstream momentum

it was really this album. Universally panned not even his stans fukked with it

 

[Big Mel]

Why the hell does Wyclef Jean do any of the embarrassing shyt he does?

 

[get these nets]

He has always been a wannabe Jamaican..

Fake yardie.

Clef parodied this element of Haitians who were Ja-fake-ans on the Carnival album skits.

narrator "Introducing Haitian Harry"
pras "Nah, that's Bloodclaat Harry"

Never heard this song, but it sounds terrible and Clef features are always trash.