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Hello Wyclef!   Where are you and what’s happening?  Right now I’m in Jersey  (1) . After this interview I’ll hit the track and do a nice run with my daughter and wife. In high school, my wife was a track star so she keeps me forever slim jim! Your album The Carnival came out in 1997 and Carnival Vol II appeared in 2007. Now here we are with The Carnival Vol III in 2017. Will there be another in 10 years? Yeah, you already know it! Every 10, you get a Carnival! Can the Guardian run an exclusive about your   summer 2027 release? Of course! You can announce it now: The Return of the Perfect Gentleman. That’s the working title. Read the full interview here: theguardian.com

Wyclef Jean’s new album  Carnival III: The Fall and Rise of a Refugee  is here via Legacy Recordings. This is his first album in eight years and falls on the 20th anniversary of his debut album  The Carnival . The former Fugees member released the first single off his new album “Fela Kuti” back in June, and the album follows his EP  The J’ouvert . In March, Jean was wrongfully detained by Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department officers after being racially profiled and mistaken as a suspect of a robbery. Read more: thefader.com

The #DXLive crew continued our trend of being extra legendary with Wyclef Jean, who surprised Cherise Johnson, Marcel Williams and Jake Rohn by bringing in the Fender guitar that Carlos Santana played at the World Cup to bless us and our audience with some live renditions of his greatest hits. Clef came through to talk about his upcoming album,  The Carnival III , which the former Haitian Presidential candidate says will be the perfect fusion of today’s sound and the nuanced classic style that first put him and The Fugees on the map. Read more: hiphopdx.com

NASA has shared numerous findings about how space looks and feels, but its newest project is giving the solar system a whole new sonic dimension. This week Wyclef Jean released “Borrowed Time,” the latest single from his forthcoming album  Carnival III: The Fall and Rise of a Refugee  (out September 15). The song, available on Apple Music and iTunes, features sounds recorded by NASA’s Juno spacecraft, which has been orbiting Jupiter since last year. Read more: observer.com

For his latest single, Wyclef Jean literally looked to the stars.  Producing  Borrowed Time , premiering exclusively on usatoday.com, the rapper used sounds recorded by the Juno spacecraft, which has been orbiting Jupiter since last year. It's part of a collaboration between NASA and Apple Music, which have partnered with a handful of artists including Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross to provide sounds from Juno to incorporate into their music.  "I was interested to hear what was coming from Jupiter," says Jean, 47. "What I heard was a collage of vibrations that sounded to me like a piano. I heard low tones, mid-range, high tones — it almost sounded like a new patch of sonics that have not been revealed yet to the public." Read more: usatoday.com