It was important that I became successful. People say they do it for the love, and yes, you do it for the love, but you want to be successful.

Jean's third album Masquerade was released in 2002. In 2009 Jean enrolled in the Berklee College of Music. With Jerry 'Wonder' Duplessis Jean also composed the score of the documentary Ghosts of Cité Soleil He also helped produce the film and he appears briefly onscreen speaking by telephone in 2004 to a "chimere" gang-leader and aspiring rapper Winston "2Pac" Jean.

He first received fame as a member of the acclaimed New Jersey hip hop group the Fugees. On August 5 2010 Jean filed for candidacy in the 2010 Haitian presidential election although the Electoral Commission subsequently ruled him ineligible to stand as he had not met the requirement to have been resident in Haiti for five years. The charity which performed a variety of charitable works in Haiti between 2005 and 2010 effectively closed in 2012.