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Wyclef Jean Presents the Carnival Featuring the Refugee Allstars Release Date: 1997 06 24 Label: Columbia Rating:

The Score was one of those rare hip-hop albums that came out of nowhere and rewrote the rules. In the aftermath of its success, many pundits predicted that rap would move away from gangsta and toward a richer, more varied existence. Given such heady praise, perhaps it was reasonable that Wyclef Jean, the guitarist and male rapper for the Fugees, decided to follow The Score with a solo project. However, Presents the Carnival comes across like Jean presenting his case that he is the true genius in the Fugees. And he's partially right. He has the ambition and drive common to many great artists, but he lacks the skills to fulfill his vision. Of course, the very fact that he has an original vision makes Jean one of the more compelling figures of late-'90s hip-hop. Not content to rely solely on hip-hop, Jean adds all manners of influences to his music. You can hear reggae, soul, disco, Caribbean rhythms, worldbeat, and opera scattered throughout The Carnival, giving the record the riotous atmosphere of its title. Even so, Jean occasionally tries too hard, forcing disparate genres to mix and spending more time on production than songwriting. But even with all its faults, The Carnival delivers great thrills when operating at full strength, demonstrating that Jean is at least half a genius. Leo Stanley, All Music Guide

Tracks:

	Title	Composer	Time
1	Intro/Court/Clef/Intro (Skit/Interlude)	Dibango	3:15
2	Apocalypse	Jean	3:49
3	Guantanamera	Seeger, Marti, Diaz, Orbon	4:30
4	Pablo Diablo (Interlude)		:39
5	Bubblegoose	Remi, Jean	3:49
6	Prelude to "To All the Girls" (Interlude)		:31
7	To All the Girls	Jean, Leibrand, McKay, O'Brien, Robinson, White, Hammond, Bailey, David, Wright, Jackson	4:17
8	Down Lo Ho (Interlude)		1:13
9	Anything Can Happen	Jean, Duplessis	4:36
10	Gone Till November	Jean	3:27
11	Words of Wisdom (Interlude)		:45
12	Year of the Dragon	Jean, Summers, Hill, Duplessis	4:07
13	Sang Fézi	Jean, Price	4:02
14	Fresh Interlude		1:45
15	Mona Lisa	Jean	4:30
16	Street Jeopardy	Jean, Duplessis, Forte	3:57
17	Killer M.C. (Interlude)		:32
18	We Trying to Stay Alive	Jean, Michel, Gibb, Gibb, Gibb, Forte	3:11
19	Gunpowder	Jean	4:24
20	Closing Arguments (Interlude/Skit)		1:35
21	Enter the Carnival (Interlude)		:24
22	Jaspora	Jean	4:03
23	Yele	Jean	5:24
24	Carnival	Jean, Duplessis	5:06

Other Releases:

Presents the Carnival Featuring the Refugee Allstars [Vinyl] Release Date: 2004 Label: Divine Recordings

Presents the Carnival Featuring the Refugee Allstars [Clean] Release Date: 1997 Label: Sony

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