Wyclef Jean has returned with a third installment of The Carnival series, which kicked off 20 years ago.
The Fugees vet’s latest entry, Carnival III: The Fall and Rise of a Refugee, features 12 new tracks. D.L. Hughley, Lunch Money Lewis and Emeli Sandé are among the guests on the LP, though Jean noted that he’s most excited about the producers involved.
“What makes this special is the nation of producers,” he told HipHopDX in a recent interview. “For example, the Young Thug record [‘Wyclef’], the producer is Super Mario. He probably was listening to The Carnival when he was seven. So he’s in the studio with Uncle Clef, put the two frequencies together and you get a record that’s called ‘Fela Kuti.’ Then you got another young crew called The Knox. They come in … ‘Uncle Clef we trying to create ‘Stayin’ Alive’ we wanna beat that.’ So we put the frequencies together and come up with a record called ‘What Happened To Love?’ This is 1997 meets 2017.”
Check out the stream, cover art and tracklist for Carnival III below.
1. Slums f. Jazzy Amra, H1DaHook and Marx Solvila
2. Turn Me Good
3. Borrowed Time
4. Fela Kuti
5. Warrior f. T-Baby
6. Shotta Boys f. Stix
7. Double Dutch f. Eric Nimmer and D.L. Hughley
8. What Happened to Love f. Lunch Money Lewis and The Knocks
9. Carry On f. Emeli Sandé
10. Concrete Rose f. Hannah Eggen and Izolan
11. Trapicabana f. Riley
12. Thank God for the Culture f. Marx Solvila, J’Mika and Leon Lacey
he really needed that canibus feauture
Dont nobody wanna hear that shit….
U bout right…
he might be back in september but rest assured he will be gone til november
As long as it’s struggle…That shit will never play out g…..never
When the f*** did he release the carnival 2? Nobody checking for this dumb a**
Man as a lifelong Fugees listener I don’t think I could be more disappointed in this album. This was some bullshit. Thank upstairs for Amazon and the ability to preview albums. Not one song worth even downloading. That’s sad. Clef, how about not working with younger people to try and stay relevant and just put out a solid album. This could be the last album we’ll remember you for and it was terrible. Guess all that Yele Haiti money can’t buy inspiration.