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Common “Sweet” (Video)

November 15th, 2011

Almost one year ago, Haiti suffered a huge earthquake causing major damage and affecting almost three million people. Recently, Common headed down to Haiti to shoot his music video for “Sweet,” which includes a lot of imagery of the still damaged country. The clip has fast-changing cuts, which works well with Common’s fast-spitting, angry rhymes. [...]

Tags: common, Haiti, Sweet, The Dreamer The Believer
Posted in Blog, RapCity, Video | Posted by Simone

Watch Arcade Fire cover the Rolling Stones & Cyndi Lauper

March 31st, 2011

Just last Saturday, Wedge host Damian Abraham was speaking to Win and Will Butler of Arcade Fire about their upcoming trip to Haiti to perform an impromptu concert. Well, it happened on Tuesday night in front of a modest crowd at the Hotel Oloffson in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti, where the earthquake famously struck in January 2010. [...]

Tags: arcade fire, Haiti
Posted in Blog, News, The Wedge | Posted by Cam

Wyclef releases song responding to loss of presidential bid

August 26th, 2010

Wyclef Jean is responding to his loss of presidential bid in Haiti by releasing a song contesting the CEP in Haiti. Wyclef tweeted the link to the song this morning, saying “This my new song contesting the CEP, in Creole. We want equal rights and justice!” The song attacks the electoral commission that deemed Wyclef [...]

Tags: Haiti, Wyclef Jean
Posted in Celebrities & Pop Culture, Music & Videos, News | Posted by Maddy

Arcade Fire’s Win Butler Not On Wyclef For President

August 19th, 2010

Arcade Fire’s Win Butler has come out as disapproving of Wyclef Jean’s run for president of Haiti. What expertise does he have you wonder? His wife and band mate Regine Chassangne’s family is from Haiti and Arcade Fire has been involved with Haiti relief efforts for months. Most recently the band pledged to match donations [...]

Tags: arcade fire, Haiti, Kanpe, Regine Chassangne, Win Butler, Wyclef Jean
Posted in Blog, News | Posted by Jessica F

Haiti Postpones Wyclef’s Presidential Bid

August 18th, 2010

Haiti’s electoral commission said on Tuesday that it has postponed its ruling on viable presidential nominees for their November elections which leaves Wyclef Jean’s bid up in the air. Jean is just one of dozens of people hoping to achieve candidacy and then eventually the role of president in the earthquake shattered country. Jean also [...]

Tags: Haiti, Wyclef Jean
Posted in Blog, News | Posted by Jessica F

Wyclef will announce Haiti presidential bid next week

July 30th, 2010

There’s been speculation in the last week that Wyclef Jean will run for president in his native Haiti, but now AllHipHop.com can confirm that Wyclef will indeed announce his candidacy next Thursday. Wyclef was born in Haiti and moved to the US when he was 9 years old. He’s also been extremely involved in Haiti’s [...]

Tags: Haiti, Wyclef Jean
Posted in Celebrities & Pop Culture, News | Posted by Maddy

Arcade Fire To Donate $1 Million To Haiti Relief If You Do Too

July 13th, 2010

Arcade Fire announced Monday night at a show in Quebec City that they will donate $1 million to the Haiti charity Kanpe if their fans will donate the same. Arcade Fire have been committed to Haiti relief ever since the earthquake earlier this year partially because band member Regine Chassangne’s family is from Haiti. Singer [...]

Tags: arcade fire, Haiti, Kanpe, Ram
Posted in Blog, News | Posted by Jessica F

Chris Brown to host Haiti benefit

April 21st, 2010

On May 15 Chris Brown will be hosting a benefit concert called Chris Brown & Friends, Virginia Stand Up!, A Call To Action in support of raising money for Haiti relief funds. The singer has enlisted the help of Trey Songz, Keri Hilson, T-Pain, Ryan Leslie, Mario, Tank and Juelz Santana to perform at the [...]

Tags: chris brown, Haiti, Juelz Santana, keri hilson, Mario, Ryan Leslie, Tank, Trey Songz
Posted in Celebrities & Pop Culture, News | Posted by Allison

Win a Young Artists For Haiti Plaque

March 26th, 2010

We’ve got our hands on something real spesh-all, something historic and soon to be nostalgic: a plaque signed by all 57 artists that appear in the Young Artists For Haiti “Wavin’ Flag” video. We love it and all, but we really want it to be in YOUR hands. To win it, take a picture of [...]

Tags: Contests, Haiti, Wavin' Flag, young artists for haiti
Posted in Contests | Posted by Wendy

K’Naan Waves “Flag” for Haiti

February 26th, 2010

Canadian hip-hop maestro K’Naan was on MOD today, where he teased a few more details about the all-star charity remake of his song, “Wavin’ Flag.” The group of artists participating in the single now have a name, “Young Artists for Haiti,” and K’Naan confirmed that proceeds from the song will go to Free The Children, [...]

Tags: Haiti, k'naan, mod
Posted in Blog, News | Posted by MuchNews