Freeway Speaks On His Struggle With Rap As A Muslim

Freeway, in a recent interview spoke on how rap music is considered Haraam (sinful) by the Islamic religion, and that as a Muslim, he has a tough inner battle with continuing with the kind of music he makes. But he says he has to keep doing it to feed his family. Islam is a very prominent religion practised in Philadelphia U.S.A, and that's Freeway's home-town.






"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."




 I remember back in my teenage year when I was throwing parties every now and then, and one fell around when Muslims were fasting, and I had to go and pick up this female friend of mine after 7p.m, cos that's about the time they finished the daily fast. Why did I bring this up? It is really hard for you to live a normal fun filled life and follow some of religions strict rules.