MTV - The Streets Is Talking: News & Notes From The Underground
When you make $83 million in one year, you damn right you're a "Big Spender." Jay-Z ? or should we say Mr. #9 on Forbes magazine's annual Celebrity 100 list (above Donald Trump, Steven Spielberg, 50 Cent and Kobe Bryant) ? has hopped on another one of his artists' lead records. In the song, Freeway and Jay trade verses about becoming "Roc millionaires."
"I'm trying to get that big paper," Free said about the record. "It's the first single off the album Free at Last. go in and out on the last verse; we go eight and eight 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."
If you remember, Free at Last was supposed to come out July 4 last year. But Free says not only did it take a while for him to get adjusted to the new system at Def Jam once Jay-Z and Dame Dash parted ways, but he went through a spiritual battle that almost brought his rap career to an end.
"Everybody knows I'm Muslim," he began explaining. "I made my pilgrimage, I traveled to Mecca. 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 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.
"I got that love for it and the passion," he added of his music. "I'm doing so good, it keeps coming. And I gotta keep feeding my family. So, like 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."
Freeway has a new mixtape with DJ Don Cannon coming out this week called Live Free or Die Hard, and Free at Last ? co-executive-produced by Jay and 50 Cent ? should be out this fall. ...
Source-MTV