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Wyclef Jean Slams Sean Penn, Pras

'Maybe [Penn] ain't see me in Haiti because he was too busy sniffing cocaine,' 'Clef sings in concert.

Wyclef Jean may not be president but he's got some high-profile critics.

When the singer and musician launched a highly-publicized bid for president of Haiti in August he had a lot of support, but also some very vocal detractors — namely actor and fellow activist Sean Penn and Jean's former Fugees bandmate Pras. Both stars publicly questioned 'Clef's political credentials and at a New York City on Friday, Jean lashed out against the critics.

"I got a message for Sean Penn: Maybe he ain't see me in Haiti because he was too busy sniffing cocaine," Jean sang at Hot 97's On The Reggae Tip concert, switching up the lyrics to his 2004 song "President." "I got a message for Praswell, even though you don't want to support me, I got love for you, even though you only kicked 8 bars in the Fugees." A few weeks after announcing his plans for the presidency, Jean was declared ineligible to run by Haitian electoral officials.

Wyclef's lyrics are the latest swipes in a series of public comments between the musician and Penn and Pras. When Jean spoke about his plans to run for Haiti's head of state on CNN, Penn, who was also a guest on the show, expressed his concerns about the singer's motivations for seeking political office.

"Right now, I worry that this is a campaign that is more about a vision of flying around the world, talking to people. It's certainly not one of the youth drafting him. I would be quite sure that this is an influence of corporations here in the United States and private individuals that may well have capitalized on his will to see himself flying around the world," Penn said. The actor also wrote in a Huffington Post column that despite Jean's public support for the island nation, the MC wasn't around during critical moments after Haiti's devastating January earthquake.

"I was there for those six months after the earthquake and so many of us on the ground wondered where he was when that kind of attention was so necessary and absent, and why he was NOT helping to keep this desperate situation in the news," he wrote. "None among us felt or expressed anger toward it, but rather a universal sadness for his silence, as he is America's most admired cultural link to Haiti."

Pras questioned 'Clef proposed strategy -- or lack thereof -- for revitalizing the country after the distaster.

"He talks about health care, he talks about education, he talks about infrastructure," Pras told MTV News last month. "But that's in any society. That's right here in America, we need that. But how are you gonna get to tt point? There's a short-term goal that needs to be addressed and there's a long-term goal. To be honest with you, the short term is probably more important than the long term. And he didn't even mention the short term."

at point? There's a short-term goal that needs to be addressed and there's a long-term goal. To be honest with you, the short term is probably more important than the long term. And he didn't even mention the short term."

 

Cee-Lo Drops Official "F--- You" Video - New retro clip replaces previous placeholder video.

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You were surely charmed by the low-tech, bold-font viral video that helped launched Cee-Lo's f-bomb-dropping smash single, "F--- You." But after demand for the undeniably catchy throwback kiss-off song spiked over the past week, Cee-Lo quickly got on the stick and recorded an official video for the tune (warning: strong language).

It kicks off with a graffiti-style rendering of the title over a neon sign, topped with a woman in a polka-dot dress raining bills down from a stack of cash.

In keeping with the Motown vibe of the song, the video's setting is of an old-school diner, with a trio of arm-waving, shimmying backup singers in shiny green dresses kicking off the action. Then a youngster identified as "Young Cee-Lo Green" marches into the greasy spoon with his parents, pumping his arm, and calls out the signature four-letter chorus slam.

The camera pans to a trio of fellow tweens in a booth snaking along to the music, with one adorable girl identified as "the Heartbreaker." The real Cee-Lo, wearing a black suit with a white and black checkered tie and shades pops up to sing a bit.

Waving around a toy garbage truck, the young lothario tries to impress his target, but she clearly has the "Ferrari" of the lyrics in mind over his junk hauler.

With the diner cleared out that night, Cee-Lo is revealed to be wearing a snazzy black suit with a long coat as the backup singers take their place on the counter in elegant white gowns with matching feather boas. Young Cee soon finds out what he's up against when he approaches the table and sees that his rival is dressed in a sharp suit and has, yes, a toy Ferrari that puts Cee's garbage rig to shame. The backup singers then pop up behind the Heartbreaker to snap about how she's a grade-school gold digger.

The scenario flashes forward to the "High School Years," and our luckless lover is now a dishwasher at the diner, still crooning the song's lyrics and dancing over to the object of his affection with some flowers. But a bespectacled kid in a Mohawk thwarts him by dropping a basket of greasy fries on which CL slips, landing his floral gift in the lap of a nerdy, unintended female target.

By the time he's in college, the lothario, Cee-Lo dressed in red specs and a checkered jacket, is still trying to work his girl by huddling with his now foxy nerd girl and working on his musical charms (which include a keyboard and a music theory book). But the Heartbreaker seems unimpressed when he sends over a plate with a hot dog and a heart-shaped arrangement of ketchup. She makes her feelings clear by smashing a basket of greasy fries on his shirt as the scene explodes into a montage reminiscent of the opening to the classic '70s sitcom "Good Times."

Cee-Lo gets his revenge in the end, though, when he turns into "the Ladykiller," rolling up in his vintage ride as everyone dances to his music while his grade-school love is stuck sweeping up at the diner. Ain't that a ... well, you know.

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Lauryn Hill Explains Updating Her Classics At Rock The Bells

'I have to upgrade them a bit so that they're still exciting and fresh and they're new,' she tells MTV News.

Of her four Rock the Bells Tour stops, Lauryn Hill hasn't had one show exactly like any of the others.

On Saturday in New York, she brought a host of celebs onstage — including Jay-Z and Beyoncé — and on Sunday, at the closer in Washington, D.C., Nas was her guest. The two performed Esco's classic "If I Ruled the World."

 

As for Hill's own classics from The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill and the Fugees' The Score, she constantly changed up the arrangements for the records. The legendary songstress said she needed to be free.

"There's been such a long period of time where I haven't been able to communicate where my mind is, where my consciousness is, where my ideas are," she told MTV News on Saturday. "I have to upgrade them a bit so that they're still exciting and fresh and they're new. There's something almost jazz-like the way I approach performances. I'm not sure if the audience really understands. We need, or at least I need, a certain amount of spontaneity, a certain amount of improvisation every show. I might have gotten spoiled from the Fugee days. We used to improvise a lot. It kept it so fresh and exciting. I need that. I need that improvisational, almost jazz-like improvisational dynamic when I'm onstage. It keeps it so exciting. It's that unknown, that literal X factor that makes every show something different — something unique and something I want to continue to do."

Hill said that's just where she is as an artist right now. "That's the type of mind that I have, the type of spirit I have," she said. "I need that new energy."

For the outing, Hill said it was incredible to find musicians who are fearless.

"This is an athletic discipline," she described. "You gotta be in shape to do it mentally, emotionally, spiritually, physically. But it's time. We're excited about what the future holds." 

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