This year, Wyclef Jean's explosive debut solo album, Carnival, turns 20 years old. The record was released just a year after The Fugees's revolutionary, massively influential, and still tragically relevant opus The Score, which blended diegetic street sounds with warped, gritty samples. It flexed all three members' poetic lyrical prowess, and cemented the trio as verifiable hip-hop legends. Carnival was Wyclef's first release under his own name, but he wasn't standing alone: both former Fugees Lauryn Hill and Pras contributed features, as did The Neville Brothers and Bob Marley's backing vocalists, the I-Threes.

Wyclef is celebrating Carnival's anniversary by looking forward; he's prepping the release of its third iteration Carnival III: Road To Clefication. But before Carnival rolls back into town, Wyclef is releasing a new EP, J'ouvert, to break off a preview of the reggae rap sounds he's been cooking up for Carnival III. Ahead of J'ouvert's release tomorrow, he's shared a new track from the project, "Holding on the Edge," with i-D.

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