Wyclef Jean Says Sean Penn 'too busy sniffing cocaine' to see me in Haiti

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By Soraya Roberts
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Monday, September 6th 2010, 1:41 PM

Sean Penn has one more critic to contend with.

At a concert in New York on Friday, Wyclef Jean suggested the actor's recreational drug use led to him criticizing the singer's presidential bid in Haiti, mtv.com reports.

Penn told Larry King last month that he worried the singer's campaign was simply "about a vision of flying around the world, talking to people."

He later penned a column for the Huffington Post criticizing the singer for being absent after the January earthquake in Haiti.

"None among us felt or expressed anger toward it, but rather a universal sadness for his silence, as he is America's most admired cultural link to Haiti," the actor wrote.

Jean lashed out at Penn's diatribe while performing his 2004 hit "President" at Hot 97's On the Reggae Trip last week.

"I got a message for Sean Penn: Maybe he ain't see me in Haiti because he was too busy sniffing cocaine," he sang.

The singer also took issue with Pras Michel, with whom he used to perform in The Fugees, after the former criticized his strategy for revitalizing Haiti.

In response, Jean said on Friday, "I got a message for Praswell, even though you don't want to support me, I got love for you, even though you only kicked 8 bars in the Fugees."

Weeks after he announced his plan to run for President of Haiti at the beginning of August, the country's electoral officials declared Jean was ineligible to run. Though they did not give a reason for the disqualification, reports suggested it was because the singer had not lived in Haiti for five years, a requirement for candidacy.

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