Wyclef Jean - Wish you were here

[brzkid16]

Who cares if its better or worse. People need to just enjoy, and stop comparing everything.

[G2Prime]

am buring the trashy comments with these. No offence, but good music deserves good reviews. If not, dont post anything

[pupitMastr]

I don't even need to look at the comments on this video to know what it looks like:

30% - Wow this is an awesome song that he wrote!

60% - Pink Floyd is music, Wycleaf Jean is not. He should be arrested for this.

10% - Pink Floyd is awesome. This is good, too

I would side with the 10%

[missjerseyz2008]

Damn!!!! Its music! You like it or You don't. I do!!

[yosef208]

nice rnb vierson to pink floyd

[codyjt5150]

my god, WHY DO NIGGERS RUIN EVERYTHING?! now they're ruining good music for the rest of us.

[Bidelegohardashti]

@codyjt5150: I could never imagine anyone who listens to Roger Waters' songs, would say such hateful and ignorant things. I hate hip hop too, but you are missing the entire point of this song. The guy explains it @ 2:29! You are also missing the point in all of Pink Floyd's songs.

[Bidelegohardashti]

@codyjt5150 You're too stupid to realize that sub-Saharan African descent people gave us Jazz, Bluse and Rock in the first place. These are their own genres, they can do what ever they want with it.

[codyjt5150]

@Bidelegohardashti well this isn't jazz, or blues, this is fucking rap

[leagee1]

i f-ting love this tune big!!!!!!!!!!



[mobilarity]

This song introduced me to Pink Floyd's original version...I appreciate both...

[shoe2522]

its an ok cover .... orginal is still the best 

[guinas72]

omg how does he do it? such great songs: clearly this can only make wycleaf. not bad I have to admit even

[tyflos098]

i think it nice cover and u must have the balls to cover a super groop like pink floyd i mostly hear rock and metal music but i think this is a very good cover from an artist who plays difrent music tha thepink floyd

[bladescrusade]

@20thcentfox Agreed, was interesting till he added the rap.

[tyflos098]

@bladescrusade it a rap artist so he put the rap element in song otherwise he can paly exact like the original

[Karimi1able]

@20thcentfox umm he's the artist your the listner make your own song with no rap syltes otherwise leave his art to be as he wishes and find something else to critises....

[Kyot0kid]

Да - да - да. Чудно. И похер, что песня была посвящена Сиду, а теперь какой-то хрен посвятил её своей потной биксе. Безумный Бриллиант и брюлики на тёлках это ведь одно и то же.

Ничё, народу нра-авится. Давай! Валяй дальше, скотина!

[amarmelstein]

this version can't touch pink floyd. because its hard to trump genius. but for a summertime blunt ride or a chill pool party mix? its hard to beat this. its futile to debate which is better. enjoy different genres and appreciate homage. good music is good music.

[uiibenji]

@amarmelstein alter, your posr mixed me, enjoy for sure and don't compare (he's sayin this shit in the lyrics. guess every 29 'likers' just read the 'good music is good music.' it's just a poor conversion to hip-hop, still i love it, sry

i'm out

[lukasenko95]

He looks like Will.i.am

[Jimboid1988NI]

@lukasenko95 i think you mean will.i.am looks like him

[lukasenko95]

@Jimboid1988NI

right :)

[bbjuyb87]

So, Wyclef sat there one day playing his guitar and asked me what I thought of the song? I stated fine, but then again he reminded me of Africa and the Refugees and what we went through having to rescue a few from being what they called a failure not being too broke. Debra Janine Williams

[isabelino16]

love you wyclef...

[kobedeprins]

it isnt really bad but the original is better

[trudon]

@20thcentfox the rap was fitting. wyclef is a hip-hop artist. it was one verse, he added a new dimension to the song.

[LazerusJones]

For me

Pink Floyd = Class

Wyclef = Talent

wor kids love this and this is what it's all about

If its a tune, it does not matter where it comes from

[onewizzard]

Stop being so white, the rap part his good. This is why I hate white people, they associate this segregation thing with music, for fu!k sake just let it go and not think about it.

[fritostein82]

Not liking rap has nothing to do with beeing black, white, yellow or blue!!!!! it's just music preferences and has nothing to do with race!!!!

By the way the cover is really nice until the rap part!!!!

[wrong101]

I liked this very much, people might not enjoy the rapping part, but its Wyclef, a hiphop artist, and it's his interpretation of the song. Great Cover imo.

[ninika76]

2:54-3:18 Amazing moment

[melvochi]

For some reason I LOVE Wyclef's version of this song much more than Pink Floyd's.

[Ldowney83]

Ok, so i have to be honest... As a huge fan of Pink Floyd, i will say, this is a half decent cover (unlike that of Limp Bizkit, who i also love but completely murdered this song, and Radiohead, which apparently is "NOT RADIOHEAD" anyway, lol!) Yes, the rapping did eff me off somewhat but at least in the rap, he totally credited Floyd, which may have turned a few "hip hop" fans to the wonderous sounds of Pink Floyd, so well done Wyclef :)

[ZdravkovicJolex]

American soldiers killed hundreds of inocent people and kids all around a world!!!! i don't tell that you deserve the same... but the rest of the world deserve that USA stop killing of inocent people!!! THERE IS NOT SUCH OF SHIT LIKE A WORLD COP!!!!

[7Crow77]

10yrs after 9\11 we still fight among our selve why? the day we were struck was the day the there was no color we were ONE in unity ....... now look at us back to ssdd!!

[razvisialex]

the other 210 don`t have wishes...they are robots..sad !! :D Amazing song however :D

[tawildberger]

Another Cover I wish didn't exist.

[mihaczek]

@tawildberger another critic i wish wasn't born

[tawildberger]

@mihaczek another prick that doesn't know when good music is butchered into an "urban twist".

[mihaczek]

@tawildberger another asshole who thinks "good music" is only Pink Floyd and King Crimson.

[tawildberger]

@mihaczek look fuck sack stop trying to win a loosing argument that you started. Entering a sterotypical commentary just proves that you yourself can't take how other people feel about certain music. I love good music... this is not good. Adding a monolouge type rap about how you like the song your poorly remaking in the song your currently making is just bad. As for you monkey nuts. No one wants to read about you trying to bash someone elses comments. So please like I said stop trying.

[mihaczek]

@tawildberger Oh, nice. 

[tawildberger]

@mihaczek my points proven. #wInnIng

[mihaczek]

@tawildberger Yeah, unquestionably. "fuck sack", "prick", "monkey nut" - 3 arguments for my only one: "asshole". 3:1!

[tawildberger]

@mihaczek lol u still talkin? you don't know when to die, you fried pile.

[mihaczek]

@tawildberger ? :|

[paul19927]

@1EC4ever Go fuck your self! you dont know 'bout music! asshole!

[victorhbji]

isnt good , just PINK FLOYD BRO !!! -▲=

[Sara10393]

Absolute SHIT.

[Kendalph]

Good lead voice & backing vocals, and nice guitars also,

but the rhythm pattern,

(which is not only always the same throughout this whole tune,

but moreover is programmed with an ugly sound and absolutely no feeling),

is absolutely boring, and makes the song itself suck.

Hey, Wyclef !

Why didn't you ask a good drummer to play a live drum part !?

The only (and sad) answer must be that

you come from hip-hop and not from rock music,

so you don't know how real drums sound...

[xp4life1]

@Kendalph isnt it a hip-hop cover? you are a very ignorant prick

[diviz0r]

@Kendalph dude stop tripping. were loving this track for years already the way it is

[greendog105]

hey you, please see my cover of wish you were here by pink floyd

[coreymofomaher]

absolute disgrace to pink floyd.The other reggae covers are 10x better than this.

[Blaze936]

Not bad at all, but definitely not as good as the Pink Floyd original version.

[BruceMcMoose]

I came on here expecting the amazing original to be slaughtered. I am so glad I am wrong. This is a very tasteful cover.

[Inmate3able]

Wish You were here Mike and Dave..Great Love from Daddy!!!

[tokolosj]

wish he were president!

[codyjt5150]

@tokolosj a nigger for president, yea, it'll be worse than obama, and he ain't even fully black neither.

[Bidelegohardashti]

@codyjt5150 Go fuck your self, you ignorant piece of shit.

[codyjt5150]

@Bidelegohardashti no thank you, and explain ignorance? I'm just fucking stating my opinion you fucking dingbat. 

[Seanchoops]

what a piece of shit, this is such a fucking disgrace

[Sara10393]

@Seanchoops Completely agreed.

[lov3r13oi]

just never mind -.-

[lov3r13oi]

and got damn it i cant type for shit right now

sorry

[lov3r13oi]

yeah its a "cover" but thats not how is intended. Its like wyclef wrote this song in a way because its his soul in the song. really it has nothing to do with pink floyd untill he recognizes them near the end

[ItalianMick2025]

@Em2a3 I agree with ya. Nobody can beat the original Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd. I love this version also because he changes it a little, but more importantly he gives credit to Pink Floyd. How many "artists" today do that?

[cantle26]

Wyclef Jean is just a real musician; he plays songs he likes. It actually used to be a common thing, both a tribute and an acknowledgement. It doesn't have to be better, it doesn't have to be the same, it's just good to hear someone play a song because they LIKE it. Shit.

[jamesmoable]

Wyclef is an Artis

dat man can do anything rap sing also play everything

[holyhellbombsfromshi]

Gotta love Wyclef's voice..

[TheAmericananarchy]

I absolutely love this song! And if you knew me I'm very picky with hip hop music. Wyclef's musicianship is just phenomenal. This shows how much respect he has to music and it's history.

God bless you Wyclef!!!

[joannepierce]

4 r richard we miss ya all da f@kin world son an cant wait till we see ya again xxx

[TheCozybear65]

Great!!

[TLakeya]

wow, how dare he cover the original..

[Twistedfate202]

@TLakeya

as opposed to covering a cover?

[TLakeya]

@Twistedfate202 no as in the original was godly, artist such as him, of a different genre and caliber shouldn't ruin it.

[Twistedfate202]

@TLakeya he gave it his own swing

think of it as tribute not disrespect

[TLakeya]

@Twistedfate202 of course it's not a disrespect, it's just that him and Pink Ffloyd are completley different artists, the band is legendary and he is just not and it shows. It may be his own interpretation of the song but it undermimes it I think. The song to me is largley about the guitar which is compleltley not reflected in this version.

[Twistedfate202]

@TLakeya you may as well compare every shitty local band that decides to disgrace it with it a cover in that case more often then not they end up covering comfortably numb but ive heard them do this a few times

i do like Rasputinas cover of this tho :)

[Euclides287]

This is better than the original version!

[GreenRaccon]

@Euclides287 No.

[ontariobuds]

@Euclides287 WHAT?!?! there is nothing wrodn wth this version, I actually love it but there is no way, no way in hell this is better then the original.

[Belgarath98]

Nowhere near as good as the original. Not too bad, though.

[SomethingWild9608]

It's like an upbeat version of a depressive song. Sounds weird.

[vegroms]

@SomethingWild9608 an upbeat version of a depressing song still makes it depressing!

[SHADOWGT1990]

brings back some old memories :)

[crazymonteverest]

BEAUTIFUL SONG!!!!!!!!!!!!

[thunderscratch66]

Pink Floyd is my favorite band of my entire life, and i must admit, it's kinda hard to hear cover of this. BUT, I have to admit that it's really not a shitty cover. I know the timing on the guitar was off a bit when it started, but... honestly it's not bad. I think I need to hear it a few more times in order to like it better. all i know is that its NOT shitty, and i'm glad he's spreading PF to other ppl who would have otherwise never known who they are. hell, it's cool with me :D

[wutango4xx]

@thunderscratch66 pallido di merda...spari sempl. delli cazzte devi essere contento ke il pf vive ancora nel cuore del musicista..e ke diffondeno loro musica....fucku bitch,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

[rafikos1295]

zajebistości

[andresihotang]

He said at the closing rap : "Critiques, don't make mistake this just for cover...I'm gonna take you to the dark side of the moon...blah..blah..blah.."..

I think this part destroy this performance. I understand this is Wycliff interpretation of this song, but the rap lyrics above are so unnecessary and ruined this song. He could just cover Eminem songs instead!

[jessnourse]

ruining a original no one can do better

[spinatown10]

ma cos'è sta cacata?dissacri i pink floyd

[jdiayassine]

the cover of alpha blondy it's better than wyclef

[Spawnskate]

What does he say at the end, just after the end of real lyrics plz ?

[Ciusmy]

wish you were here ..forever

[cazadoorcba]

que buena cancion!.

[ChingChing4569]

Preacher's Son is Good!!!!

[charadeyouareha]

I love Pink Floyd

[MandegiMishkan]

only wyclef could pull this off, he is awesome!

[Kumquantative]

his vocals are a beautiful interpretation of the melody, but I'm not feeling the beats

[tokolosj]

a real good-vibe-song!!!! love it!!

[abb94campbell]

unreal love this version ...x

[MrKingvanilla83]

I like the original a lot better but this one suprised me nd actually turned out to be good.

[pr1de010]

Alpha Blondy made a good cover also!. Search it!

[j5rozelle]

this cover actually introduced me to the song. Can't say it's better, but it's definitely different in it's own good way. love this track.

[TheZofq]

Hes too good. :]

[ziggy2316]

This is damn good.

[nachoRosario78]

love this cover. im floyd fan and i dont even like hip hop very much, but this is just great.

An original twist for a master piece. Peace!!

[419MJman]

this is my thought............. 

[gaoussou6]

Not bad but the alpha Blondy version is better

[flicfan416]

This is great. I think its wonderful that Wyclef would pay tribute to Floyd. And he's a helluva guitarist to boot!

[TheMacjean]

All my proud haitians go check my new video ..type .. (macjin uno) thank you

[sandra19957]

this song is just amazing

[konkretelion]

listen to wathe says!! "CRITICS DONT Mistake this for no covertune...imma take this to the dark side of the moon!!! thats great!! just crumbles everyones neg and positive words on here... wyclef homie ill see u out

on da block!

[playswithdrums]

look i am a huge Pink Floyd fan and i just started listening to to Wyclef and i like his stuff i just think that he should have slowed this one down a little and got the emotion out of it otherwise its a great cover...its just my opinion so dont go flipping at me

[THEWARRIORSANGEL]

on the loop...soooooooooooooo freaken beautiful*****

[hcohen301]

i seriously dont understand people who dislike and their comments says its shit, if u dont like it, just go away....

BTW! its awesome... :)

[SuperSarah222]

awesome....i love where my generation is taking music, soon there wont be genres, just great music. wycleff did it right...killed it!!

[waru33]

thats way cool

[Dragan738]

This is good shit, i dont care who you are. Combines 2 of the greatest genres into one.

Keep tokin!

[39Kookeez]

hahaha this blows the shit out of the durst version. but i must say i kinda like a little of what durst and the dolls did with the new lines.

[DarkSideChic87]

Pink Floyd is my favorite band of all time and this is definitely one of their greatest songs. I normally hate Pink Floyd covers, but this is really good. Wyclef makes it his own without destroying the character and meaning of the original. Well done.

[Gizard1000]

Timeless

[TheDona777]

174 morons!!! No apologies!

[ludocrat]

Fubar.

[mgsdini95]

i have respect for Wyclef because of his musical diversity he's not just restricting him self to liking just one genre

[OneKapitan]

lame



[mightymouse5565]

Wyclef keep doing what you do! please! best cover btw. am i right?

[JBizzle625]

correction on whatever tupac has to say

1) Wyclef never stated or expressed that he has the right to be president...

2)I'm pretty sure wyclef doesnt have an ego since he jasnt been on the charts since 2007.

3) Wyclef is Haitian, Born in Haiti, and is the roaming embassador to Haiti. If he feels the country is fucked up and thinks he can do a better job at president than let him be. Isnt that how American candidates get into the race? And Obama last i checked went to law school not politics

[SunshineBarcelona]

Absolutely LOVE this Wyclef u are a LEGEND. My respect for you goes beyond belief! U turned a classic into an amazing cover, so cool sounds so good ;o) Enjoying this one so much over and over again xx respect xx

[theveninp8]

damn it's sik,where is wyclef i heard he ran for president of haiti and he got shot ?

[gizlone]

Oh lord, this is just wrong

This cover has no meaning, unlike the original version

[mrchickenplucker2000]

@gizlone Very true, but i still like it

[mightymouse5565]

@gizlone its a dedication to the original basically. funny. it has the same exact lyrics. with an extra rap part. so you obviously dont know what makes sense.

[gizlone]

@mightymouse5565 You just don't get the original because you're an underage faggot

[mightymouse5565]

@gizlone im an underaged faggot, nice. talk shit over Youtube. your an idiot. he hadn't changed the lyrics like I said so your right this has no meaning then Pink Floyd's version has no meaning. your ignorant.

[gizlone]

@mightymouse5565 You're the one who's ignorant

All he's doing is reciting the lyrics, I'm sure he doesn't even know what they mean and I know you don't

[mightymouse5565]

@gizlone ITS A COVER YOU DUMBASS! what the fuck else is supposed to do?

and yeah, thanks for telling me what i know and dont know. 

[gizlone]

@mightymouse5565 It's fucking obvious you don't know what the song's about, and this COVER disgraced the song. Now fuck off you ignorant idiot

[mightymouse5565]

@gizlone dude shut the fuck up. its done. your pathetic. i like it. you dont. your a troll. now shut the fuck up.

[gizlone]

@mightymouse5565 'durr durr you're a troll'. The underage internet user's last response.

Go home kid

[mightymouse5565]

@gizlone good one. faggot i'm prolly older than you! so quit talking your shit. this is done.

[gizlone]

@mightymouse5565 It really shows how much older you are than me when you start an argument with me and then pussy out when you're out of things to say

[mightymouse5565]

@gizlone Nope it shows how much older I am that i dont really want to go around like you do and argue with people on their taste of music. im just annoyed with this argument. so im done.

[gizlone]

@mightymouse5565 I'm arguing? You started the fucking argument you hypocritical moron

If you had half a brain you would quit while you're ahead

[mightymouse5565]

@gizlone if I had half a brain? what are you 10? you started it wah wah. i dont care if i started it. hoe im finishing it too. quit while i'm ahead? what are you gonna do? talk more shit over Youtube?

[gizlone]

@mightymouse5565 Oh my god, you are so pathetic. You're the one talking shit over youtube you waste of skin, seriously? You're asking if I'M 10? Honestly dude, you are the definition of hypocrite, go home please

And you DID start talking shit over youtube, I did not. Obviously you are not trying to end it since you are still commenting. You stupid person

[mightymouse5565]

@gizlone go home? I AM HOME DIPSHIT! im not letting you have the last word.. and this is obvioulsy pointless because we have started arguing about something that is irrelevant of the first comments! so now this is pointless. yes i know i can be hypocritcle somtimes. but i dont give a fuckkkk nigga! DONT CALL ME A STUPID PERSON YOUR NOT MY FATHER! ok im done talking shit im bored. my opinion of this video was i liked it, yours was i was dumb for liking it. just so you remember.

[jison1988]

@gizlone

Wyclef has more musical talent in his dick than you probably have in your little tiny brain.

[gizlone]

@jison1988 OH SNAP! I just got super-told

Told and the beautiful, featuring me

Told Case, also featuring me

The list goes on, that shut me up

[nickthesnowman]

@jison1988 well ... he is black

[trustinthedie]

@gizlone how so? you dont know what hes feeling.

[rjhamptonjr]

A cover can be a show of respect.

A cover can be an artistic statement.

You don't have to like it, you also don't have to listen to it.

This world will be a much better place when people spend less time hating and instead learn to like or dislike and then move on....No need to spread hate and dwell on hate.

.....for me, I dislike this remake and prefer the Alpha Blondie remake. Hopefully this version touches someone.

[MrJJtheboss]

goosebumps when his tune is bangin

rip pink floyd

[305tupackillumanati]

this cover is ALRIGHT, but its really starting to piss me off how wyclef is constantly doing covers, AKA ripping off other fucking artists! THIS GUY IS AN EGOTISTICAL FUCKBOY, he thinks he has the rite to be the president of hiati even though hes fucking retarded, maybe not litterally but im sure his i.q. is no higher than 105, and he doesnt have a degree thats related to politics at all. FUCK WYCLEF. the begies r good though.

[reaperofgenocide]

@305tupackillumanati who are you to judge? if he wants to do covers let em... i find it egotistical of you to judge this man so harshly just because he wants to get into politics and because he does lots of covers. Because it takes an ego to talk shit about a man like that.... it doesnt take an ego how ever to do a cover song

[trustinthedie]

@305tupackillumanati its the fugees not the begies.

[timmeh9117]

cool

[Asianchickiko85]

I just got back from Mackenson Louis's show and he was so detailed about the Haitian experience now Im online looking up everything Haitian. Wow beautiful people, beautiful music...Do Haitian men like Asian women?

[JayCarl123]

I'm begging you clef,join Praz and get back into music bro...

[acaukin]

169 people dislike REAL music. Bummer