Freeway Talks About Music And Religion

Freeway Talks About Music And Religion

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Today, Freeway unleashed his highly anticipated Diamond in the Ruff, featuring collaborations with longtime collaborators Bink! and Just Blaze. Now, in a recent interview with Fader, the Philadelphia emcee discusses balancing his personal life and music.

Freeway explained how he balances his Muslim faith and making music, which many Islamic scholars a religiously unlawful practice.

He recalled that his faith almost made him abandon music following his split with Roc-A-Fella, but ultimately, he made the decision to continue rapping despite many scholars' rulings.

"I never really, really stopped [making music]," he said. "I'm Muslim and it's a difference of opinion if music is haraam or not, and haraam is something that's not lawful [in sharia], and the majority of the scholars agree that music is haraam.

Me being a Muslim and trying to be a good Muslim, I was between should I do it or not and should I keep going with the music. It's definitely something I have a passion for, I'm good at and it's how I've been feeding my family for years.

It's something that I struggled with, but I decided to continue working with the music.

So after the Roc-A-Fella split, I really just had to gather my thoughts, get everything together and see what I was going to do next, and I just went back to what I know."

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Swizz Beatz Fiscal Responsibility

Swizz Beatz Fiscal Responsibility

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Swizz Beatz found himself in a bad light this week after TMZ unearthed documents claiming that New York State filed a lien against him for $98,000 in unpaid taxes. After providing documents to clear up the issue, Swizzy stopped by Power 105's The Breakfast Club to talk about the situation, stating that he had tax issues in the past but that he's learned from his mistakes and has better fiscal responsibility.

"Say I owed $10 million. Don't say I owed $100,000. The story was about a $98,000 lien.
I see where they got that from. I'm not going to say I never had tax problems.
'06, '07, I had tax problems. It was like, whatever," he said. "As you get older, you know how to maintain your funds, maintain your businesses.

I'm involved with next-level businesses across seas, this that and the third.
It's like, you've gotta know how to graduate those things when you're dealing with these people.
This can't be coming up. When you're doing business, everybody know everything.They know who's who and what's what, what you make and how you doing. These people are billionaires.
For me to be in that lane, I have to be responsible anyways."

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