Although his album was meant to be released last year, it has taken Freeway a little bit longer to finally hit store shelves. Why?
“Everybody knows I’m Muslim…I made my pilgrimage, I traveled to Mecca.”
During this time, Free thought about the impact making music has on his life. As he states in this comment, he also thought about leaving the rap life behind.
“Me being Muslim, I’m not even supposed to be doing music. It takes away from the remembrance of God. For me and for the other [Muslims] in the world, the time they are listening to my music, they could be reading, studying the Koran. The time I’m doing music, I could be studying the Koran. Me knowing that’s the right thing to do and I’m doing something wrong, I had to buckle down and get myself together. ‘Do I really wanna do this? Do I really wanna go against my God like that?’ I came up with the conclusion, and here we go,” he told MTV.
What made him go this route?
“I got that love for it and the passion…I’m doing so good, it keeps coming. And I gotta keep feeding my family. So, like [Mike Jones’] song ‘What We Do Is Wrong,’ that’s how I look at it. We all are sinners, but I repent and ask God to forgive for the things I do.”
Now, his next album’s first single is ready for radio. Big Spender, a track which features Jay-Z, will be the first release from the new LP.
“It’s the first single off the album Free at Last. [Me and Jay] go in and out on the last verse; we go eight and eight [bars] on the first two verses. It’s crazy. We just talking that money; what we want, we get. It’s beautiful. We got Dame Grease on the production; we’re just trying to bring it back to where Roc-A-Fella is supposed to be,” he said.
His album may take some time to come out, but he is prepping a new mixtape, Live Free or Die Hard, by DJ Don Cannon. That should be enough to hold fans off until Free at Last is released later this year.
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