Wyclef Jean is dropping a new album and he’s enlisted many of today’s Hip-Hop stars to help on The Carnival 2: Memoirs of an Immigrant.
Why drop an album now?
“My sound is definitely missing out there, it’s obvious…And basically, I just want to regroup with my family. I got my little brother with me — whenever you hear me say, ‘All hands on deck,’ that’s my brother Sedeck. And you know, of course, Jerry Wonder forever … you just have to, as a producer, sometimes step at it from the outside, see what’s going on inside, and attack it with a fresh edge,” he told MTV recently.
Features will include T.I., Paul Simon, Akon, Mary J, Will.i.am of The Black Eyed Peas, and Ex-Pussycat Doll, Nicole Sherzinger.
Will and Nicole are on the first single and Clef spoke on that, too.
“My cousin came with … an old [1965] sample from Haiti…It’s an old Compa; Compa is the rhythm of my country. So imagine now, we land in the West with this old-time [beat] and we go, ‘Check, Will,’ and Will is like, ‘OK, this is what you working with?’ And he jumps on it and throws some drums on top of it. Then I’m like, ‘OK, this is what you working with?’ Then I go in the booth and start jumping in. He goes in and starts jumping. And then next thing you know, Nicole happens to be there. Like, ain’t nothing rehearsed because we went in on a vibe.”
With so many stars on the LP, one would expect at least one Fugees track. According to the report, it is not likely. The fact is, no Fugees are expected to be on the LP and no Fugee reunion tracks are on the way, either. No word on the official release date for The Carnival 2 as of yet but DX will keep you posted.
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