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In a black and white chinchilla coat, music artist Wyclef Jean spoke candidly about how his mom took a gun out of his hand and replaced it with a guitar. "I vowed when I created my group, The Fugees, that I wouldn't be bragging about crack, about selling dope, about how bad we are in the streets," Jean said to students at South Philadelphia High School Wednesday afternoon. "Because if you know anything about toting guns, it ain't really nothing to brag about at the end of the day." Read more: phillytrib.com

In the 22 years following the release of the Fugees’ chart-topping, groundbreaking album  The Score , Wyclef Jean has certainly kept himself busy. As a solo artist, Wyclef has put out seven albums, including his latest,  Carnival III: The Fall and Rise of a Refugee , released in September 2017. Beyond the music, Wyclef is currently producing an animated film with Netflix about his journey from growing up in Haiti to finding his way in New York, where he immigrated at age nine. Perhaps most ambitiously, Jean is also set to unveil a prototype of the first hip-hop guitar which, when paired with an augmented reality app, will teach aspiring students the fingering progressions of a catalog of songs. Read interview: sxsw.com

Wyclef Jean 's life is getting animated. The former Fugees leader has teamed up with Netflix for a CG-animated feature film that will trace the rapper's childhood in Haiti and emigration to Brooklyn with his family at age nine. According to  Deadline , the show will be co-produced by Greg Silverman's  Stampede  content creation company and Jean, with a script from  Top Gun: Maverick  writer Justin Marks. Read more: billboard.com

Netflix has given the greenlight to a CG animated musical movie that will revolve around the life story of Fugees founding member Wyclef Jean. The project hails from Stampede, the production banner recently launched by former Warner Bros. Pictures executive Greg Silverman. Justin Marks (“The Jungle Book”) is on board to write the script. The pic will focus on Jean’s childhood growing up in poverty in Haiti. Source: variety.com

EXCLUSIVE :  Netflix  will make a CG-animated feature film inspired by the childhood of Haitian singer and The Fugees co-founder  Wyclef Jean .  Greg Silverman ’s upstart production company Stampede is partnering with the three-time Grammy Award-winning musician to produce the film. Script will be written by  Justin Marks , whose credits include  The Jungle Book,  its sequel, and  Top Gun: Maverick . It will be informed by Jean’s childhood in Haiti, where he lived until his family emigrated to Brooklyn at age 9, and then to New Jersey where he began his musical path. Read more: deadline.com