[00:00:01] Haitian Experience - Wyclef Jean [00:00:05] Yeah now I'm a rockstar [00:00:08] It started with my imagination [00:00:09] Used to gaze at the twins before the birds hit 'em [00:00:12] Daydream about the God my axe my Excalibur [00:00:16] A man who just saw the future beyond the dishwater [00:00:19] Yeah cab driver used to gyspy cab rider [00:00:23] But she stuck with me when I had nothing [00:00:24] So I had to wife her [00:00:26] And I used write these thoughts on a black and [00:00:28] White notebook [00:00:29] Haitian experience now I'm a page in a book [00:00:32] I'm a Haitian Haitian [00:00:34] When I landed in America 'Merica [00:00:38] I got myself a green card green card [00:00:41] Mamma say if I ever break the law [00:00:44] They gone send me back home [00:00:45] This is my Haitian experience [00:00:48] First stop out in England England [00:00:51] Immigration send me back to Washington Washington [00:00:54] Said I need a visa if I wanted to be [00:00:57] In the United Kingdom [00:00:59] I pray that the Queen of Buckingham is listening [00:01:02] Your Highness I got a palace out [00:01:04] In Port Au Prince [00:01:06] I got a hundred acres and a whole lotta land [00:01:09] But I can't go back and see my people [00:01:11] In the ticks [00:01:13] I'm a Haitian in America [00:01:18] When papa first got his green card worked [00:01:20] Seven jobs in America [00:01:24] Then he came and got me from Haiti told me [00:01:25] I had one chance [00:01:27] To make it in America [00:01:31] In the legal Valley and looking for work [00:01:34] In Manhattan in America [00:01:37] My papa was a Haitian Haitian [00:01:40] He got to America 'Merica [00:01:43] On a six month visa visa [00:01:46] When the visa expired he went underground [00:01:49] Like rats in the sewer [00:01:50] This is the Haitian experience [00:01:53] Running from the Immigration Interrogation [00:01:56] But his vision was his chosen [00:01:58] How you gon' get us to New York [00:02:00] Absolute lost and at sea and never see the airport [00:02:04] Yeah I pray that the President is up there listening [00:02:08] Your Excellence I got a palace out in Port Au Prince [00:02:11] I got a hundred acres and a whole lotta land [00:02:14] So we go move from detention we go we build the land [00:02:18] I'm a Haitian in America [00:02:23] When papa first got his green card [00:02:25] Worked seven jobs in America [00:02:29] Then he came and got me from Haiti [00:02:31] Told me I had one chance [00:02:32] To make it in America [00:02:36] So I learned to play guitar with dreams [00:02:38] Of becoming a rock star [00:02:40] In America [00:03:09] I'm a Haitian [00:03:10] I'm a Haitian in America [00:03:15] When papa first got his green card worked [00:03:18] Seven jobs in America [00:03:21] Then he came and got me from Haiti told me [00:03:23] I had one chance [00:03:24] To make it in America [00:03:28] In the legal Valley and looking for work [00:03:31] In Manhattan in America [00:03:36] What we gone do right now is we gone go back [00:03:39] Way back [00:03:41] To what I call Lassie [00:03:44] The roots the Haitian experience [00:03:47] Let's go [00:03:49] Look in her eyes she will survive [00:03:52] She smiles like she's in love [00:03:55] She's 21 she lost her feeding arms [00:03:58] But she aingt lose her soul dancing outta control [00:04:02] Like Angelina Ballerina [00:04:05] Like Angelina Ballerina [00:04:08] Like Angelina Ballerina [00:04:11] Na na na na na na na na [00:04:14] Yes I'm a Haitian in America [00:04:20] When papa first got his green card [00:04:22] Worked seven jobs in America [00:04:26] Then he came and got me from Haiti told me [00:04:28] I had one chance [00:04:30] To make it in America [00:04:34] In the legal Valley and looking for work [00:04:36] In Manhattan in America [00:05:18] Man I just got on a plane leaving Haiti [00:05:23] And I landed in Brooklyn New York City Cooney Island [00:05:27] Marlboro Projects man in projects [00:05:30] It's so rough to blend in [00:05:32] I learned to how to rock sing dance pop [00:05:34] Loc whatever it took