{"id":264670,"date":"2026-02-03T00:51:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T00:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/264670\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T00:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T00:51:08","slug":"wyclef-jean-talks-grammy-memoriam-tribute-upcoming-new-albums-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/264670\/","title":{"rendered":"Wyclef Jean Talks Grammy Memoriam Tribute, Upcoming New Albums This Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Wyclef Jean<\/a> has more than 30 years in the music industry, but by the looks of it, he’s still only just getting started … he told us he’s going to release an album a month, for seven months, starting in March!<\/p>\n

He broke the news when we caught up with him Monday at LAX. He told us the 7 projects include a hip hop album, a country album, an R&B album, a jazz album … and 3 more he’s keeping mum about.<\/p>\n

According to the legendary producer and rapper, he wants to show music fans how so much of what we listen to today originated with him.<\/p>\n

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Wyclef said, “I don’t want to sound like Little Richard, but I started a lot of this, man. I don’t wanna be like, ‘I started Rock ‘n’ Roll,’ so versus me telling you that, here we go … “<\/p>\n

Of course, Clef was fresh off his incredible “In Memoriam” performance at the Grammys Sunday, where he was honored to pay tribute to the likes of Roberta Flack<\/a>, D’Angelo<\/a> and John Fort\u00e9<\/a>, among others.<\/p>\n

“Shout out to Ms. Hill. She put that together,” WJ said, thanking Lauryn Hill<\/a> for organizing. “It was important, because at the end of the day, I just love music.”<\/p>\n

That’s for sure! Can’t wait to hear the new stuff Wyclef!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Play video content TMZ.com Wyclef Jean has more than 30 years in the music industry, but by the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[251,430,156,4916,111,43,139,69,7075],"class_list":["post-264670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-breaking-news","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-hip-hop","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tmz-hip-hop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}