TV Reporter mistakes will.i.am for Wyclef Jean and then Wale

Wed, 07 Nov 2012 21:27:00 +0000

TV Reporter Blake Burman is probably going to have a tough time recovering from this:

Wyclef Jean: I loved Lauryn Hill and my wife

Mon, 17 Sep 2012 23:30:00 +0000

I feel like an old man every time I tell a young gun what the music business was like in my day, when my group’s biggest record came out. I’m not even talking about how it was back in the days of Grandmaster Flash or even Public Enemy and A Tribe Called Quest. I’m talking about my day, which was only fifteen years ago — but that’s how much the world of music has changed. That’s a blink of an eye in the history of the business, but back then the things considered impossible today were still possible. Back then, in the nineties, a record could come out and sell 15 million copies if it struck a chord with the world at the time. Back then, radio could still make a somebody out of a nobody, and you couldn’t get recorded music for free unless you taped it live off the radio. People would line up to buy an artist’s new CD the day it came out, because to hear it, you had to own a piece of plastic with that song recorded on it.

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TV Reporter mistakes will.i.am for Wyclef Jean and then Wale

Wyclef Jean: I loved Lauryn Hill and my wife