The Haitian hip-hop kings Wyclef Jean announced that he would run for Haiti’s next year’s President with the term of 5 years. Haiti’s current president, Rene Preval’s term will end in Feb next year with no re-election on Nov 28’s election, so Wyclef Jean expresses that he would like to take part in the upcoming election to help people to rebuilt their homeland. 海地嘻哈天王“怀克里夫-金”(Wyclef Jean)宣布下一届竞选任期5年的海地总统一职。海地现任总统勒内普雷瓦尔(Rene Preval)的任期即将于明年2月结束，并且不能在今年11月28日的大选中寻求连任，因此怀克里夫-金表示自己愿意参选即将到来的总统大选，以帮助震后人民重建家园。
The January 12 quake, which killed more than 200,000 and left nearly 2 million homeless, flipped a switch in the rapper, who was born in Haiti and raised in Brooklyn. 海地今年1月12日发生致命的强震，造成20多万人死亡，将近2百万人流离失所，目前全国仍处于震后修复阶段。地震强烈震撼了这位说唱歌手，他在海地出生，在布鲁克林长大。 “If I can't take five years out to serve my country as president, then everything I've been singing about, like equal rights, doesn't mean anything, ” Jean told Time magazine, “If not for the earthquake, I probably would have waited another 10 years before doing this,” 怀克里夫-金在接受采访时说：“如果我无法赢得下一届任期5年的总统选举为我的国家服务，那么我以前说唱的那些诸如‘平等权利’的倡导就一点意义也没有。而如果不是年初的这场大地震，我参选的愿望可能要再延迟10年。”
Wyclef Jean were awarded Grammy three times, and once one member of the Hip-Hop Fugees, getting high reputation in the native. He launched “Yele Haiti” in 2005 and has been doing charity work to improve the proverty problem in Caribbean Sea area. 怀克里夫-金曾是三次格莱美奖得主，之前是嘻哈团体Fugees的成员之一，在当地享有较高声誉。他于2005年创办了海地基金会，一直在从事改善加勒比贫困地区面貌的慈善工作。
