Wyclef Jean presents The Carnival featuring Refugee Allstars

This album is just as great, and still sounds just as fresh today as when it first dropped. Wyclef’s production is incredible throughout, sampling records w/ a wide variety of different styles, and the rhymes & songs are timeless 👍

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I bought Greatest Hits because of Gone Till November. Then I find out this album has it and way more songs than GH. Anyways, because I heard Gone Till November, I now like Wyclef's music (:

This isn't the worst music I've ever heard. It's just not my kind of thing. Many of the songs have some terrible sound effects that just sound fake and placed on top of the music. Random beeps and squeeks that sound out of place and artifical. His writing is also about as poor as any rapper out there. There's no reason i want to hear 24 tracks of some random dude telling me he's from Brooklyn, Jersey (which I am, haha), and Haiti. He just tells us about random facts and things he's done that are the same as everybody in this world, but he manages to do it with a skill developed in First Grade (i.e. he can rhyme). The only 3 songs that are keepers are the 3 popular songs. Tracks 3, 10, and 18. Yele also sounds good and maybe i'd like it if it was in my native tongue.

This cd brings back memories. Used to jam it at my boys crib singin "no woman no cry" skokin some kill. GtG

Anything could happen

One had to wonder what could have been had the Fugees stayed together, Wyclef and Lauryn Hill seemed to work incredibly well together and its a shame Lauryn left. However, this album shows that Wyclef is full of great ideas on his own, and that he is a talented producer with a super unique ear for making unconventional hip hop songs not only in structure, but sonically as well. That may inherently turn some people off who like their hip-hop like they like their toast (plain), but to each his own. Not all of the tracks are great, some are hit or miss, a few bad (IMHO), but the ones that are good are very good. Wyclef isn't a very good lyricist (or if he is, he doesn't demonstrate it here and it feels like they were an afterthought to he great beats) and the guest appearances are solid if unspectacular. The real treat is the songs and beats themselves and an appreciation of it. I think it should also be mentioned that this was one of the first albums to really embrace instrumentation, though obviously not the first. Again, you have to wonder what the Fugees next album could have been if the Fugees stayed together. Lauryn is/was a talented lyricist and vocalist and you have to wonder what the songs could have been if Lauryn added her element as a member of the band.

When u listen to any one of his songs u just gotta start moving

Loved this CD, it made everything and everyone come alive. This music always takes me back. Wyclef where'd ya go..... come back, mon!

"that's wyclef playboy"... This is such a classic hip hop album it's an essential in any collection