Wyclef Jean is a Haitian rapper, musician and actor. Known for being a member of hip hop group Fugees (alongside Lauryn Hill and Pras). Jean has won 3 Grammys during his music career.

Thug pays his respects with these tracks. He said on Twitter that the songs were named after his idols,

That was the same guitar player who did the guitar for the Jeezy and Janelle Monáe song. I got him to play some Jamaican vibes because I just wanted to try something new. That Caribbean style was popping at the time and I was like, ‘Let’s take it a step further and actually do real reggae.’

I played the chords on the keyboard for him and then he played them on the guitar. That beat probably took me 30 minutes to make, bro. I figured the guitar, a bass guitar, and some drums was good enough, and then I just happened to run across a sample I had bought from S1 [the producer behind Kanye West’s “POWER”] that had the African singing in it. I pitched that down, tweaked it a little bit to make it the right semi-tones, and that became the bridge of the song.

I dunno, man, Thug is crazy with it. He found a way to harmonize with that [bridge]. I think that’s probably the part of the song that stood out to him the most. Honestly, when I made the beat, I didn’t plan on sending it to anybody but him.

I was on Instagram when I found out [Thug jumped on the beat]. I saw a promo for JEFFERY and I heard the beat in the background. I think TM88 may have sent me a video of him in the studio and that song playing, but I hadn’t fully heard the song until the actual album dropped. So I didn’t really get a chance to hear it until I was on Instagram.

Of course I saw the video! [Laughs] The guy who put that together, he’s a genius.

via DJ Booth