Wyclef on Lauryn Hill: “You Can’t Get Angry With Someone Who’s Sick”

By Quibian Salazar-Moreno

      Wyclef Jean is currently promoting his new album, “Carnival Volume II (Memoirs of an Immigrant)” which hits stores today. He’s doing a handful of interviews and one of the most popular questions he gets is, of course, about Lauryn Hill and the Fugees reunion that never happened. In an interview with Rolling Stone, Wyclef shared what it was like to go on tour with L-Boogie last year in Europe.

      “Man, it was like pulling thirty-two teeth out of my mouth,” Wyclef told Rolling Stones. “You can’t be on a stage an hour and a half late, like she was. So I blew up on, like, the tenth night. Cursed her out. I was like, ‘Listen, either you want to fucking do this shit, or I’m going to fucking go home.’ I felt sorry for her, because I think she needs psychiatric help. I felt like she’s bipolar. You can’t get angry with someone who’s sick. So I even called her mom, and I stressed to her, ‘Yo, you need to get her psychiatric help.’ But I think they all fear her to death. She wasn’t always like this — but if someone has the ego and you keep feeding the ego, it’s going to turn monstrous.”

Here’s the tracklisting to Clef’s new album:

1. Intro

2. Riot (featuring Serj Tankian and Sizzla)

3. Sweetest Girl (Dollar Bill) (featuring Akon, Lil Wayne and introducing Niia)

4. Welcome To The East (featuring Sizzla)

5. Slow Down (featuring T.I.)

6. King & Queen (featuring Shakira)

7. Fast Car (featuring Paul Simon)

8. What About The Baby (featuring Mary J. Blige)

9. Hollywood Meets Bollywood (Immigration) (featuring Chamillionaire)

10. Any Other Day (featuring Norah Jones)

11. Heaven’s In New York

12. Selena (featuring Melissa Jimenez)

13. Touch Your Button Carnival Jam (featuring Will.I.Am, Melissa Jimenez, Machel Montano, Daniela Mercury, Black Alex, Djkout Mizik)             

14. Outro