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Wyclef Jean helped put Destiny's Child on the map. ESSENCE caught up with Wyclef and LeToya Luckett on the MTV VMAs red carpet and the two friends reunited and it felt so good!
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00:00You look like you're 16 years old.
00:04I do? Still? Thank you.
00:06How you doing?
00:10I'm good. How you doing?
00:12I done got married and everything.
00:14I'm grown grown now.
00:16My childhood is screaming out.
00:18Hilarious.
00:20The Jeeps pump this new remix.
00:24This is the remix.
00:26Radios play this remix.
00:28This is the remix.
00:32What does this moment mean for you?
00:34This is big for me because he took us on.
00:36We were just starting.
00:38No one knew our names. We were new to the Columbia building.
00:40No one knew us.
00:42And he said, I'll jump on that singer.
00:44He took us in the studio and we didn't do it like the regular way.
00:46He made us all go in the booth together and sing the whole song,
00:50top to bottom, like nonstop.
00:52He was like, I don't care if you mess up.
00:54I don't care what happens. I just want you to feel.
00:56And so we did.
00:58And we were like, because we were so used to going in and stacking
01:00and doing the whole thing.
01:02He was like, no, I want the real thing.
01:04I want the real thing.
01:06We're not doing nothing.
01:08I love that. What stood out to you about Destiny's Child?
01:10I mean, my father's a minister, so I'm a preacher kid.
01:12So I grew up on a church and you could just hear when singers sound anointed.
01:16So when I heard them, it just was like, it was just a, it still is, right?
01:20It's like once you are, because you got people who sing and people who sang.
01:24Those are different things.
01:25So for me, when I was hearing the music, I felt like I was like, yo,
01:30there's a raw energy about them that no one was capturing yet.
01:33Because the studio could be tricky.
01:35It'd be making you put a lot of layers.
01:37So all I did was strip it back.
01:39And I was like, let's just catch that vibe.
01:41Because once people hear the anointed, so it is.
01:44You know what I mean?
01:45Wow.
01:46I love this so much.
01:47This is such an iconic moment.
01:50These two.
01:51Listen.
01:52He took us on tour with us after that.
01:53He took us on tour with us.
01:54So that was big.
01:55That was huge.
01:56Thank you so much.
01:57Look what you've done.
01:58Yes. Thank you.
01:59I love it.
02:01What a legacy.
02:02Thank you so much.
02:03I'm so glad we got to catch that.
02:05Yes.
02:06Thank you so much for stopping by.
02:08I appreciate that.
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