The Philly native chopped it up with MTV's Mixtape Monday crew today and spoke on his recent collaboration with Jay-Z, Free at Last and what it's like to be both a rapper and a Muslim:
Everybody knows I'm Muslim. 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 [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.
More with Free can be read here.
