Free (rapper)

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Free
Birth name Marie Wright
Also known as Free, Marie Anoinette
Origin Dorchester, Massachusetts, United States
Genre(s) Contemporary R&B, Hip hop
Occupation(s) Rapper, Singer
Label(s) The Inc., Def Jam, Roc-A-Fella
Website freesworld.com

Marie Wright better known by her stage names, Free and Marie Antoinette, is an American rapper.She was also a host of BET's 106 & Park and a disc jockey at KKBT 100.3 The Beat in Los Angeles.[citation needed]

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In the early 1990s, Free was a member of Wyclef Jean's Refugee Camp group. In 1998 she appeared on Canibus's debut album, Can-I-Bus with a verse on the song "Partriots". She appeared with Canibus again, on Pras's "Can't Stop the Shining", from his debut album, Ghetto Supastar. Free also had a verse in the 1998 cover version of Queen's "Another One Bites the Dust" from the Small Soldiers soundtrack.

Free started recording as Marie Antoinette in 1999 and appeared on Wyclef's remix of "New Day," from the Life soundtrack, and on "Da Cypha" from The Ecleftic: 2 Sides II a Book.

In 2000, Free started hosting 106 & Park alongside A. J. Calloway. After hosting the show for five years, Free left when her contract ran out.[citation needed] She was originally brought into the BET family by executive Stephen Hill, whom she met in Boston while working for urban/gospel radio station WILD 1090 based in Roxbury.[citation needed]

While she was still hosting 106 & Park, Free signed to Elektra Records. She wrote tracks for an album but nothing was released.[citation needed] She followed Elektra CEO Sylvia Rhone to Motown Records,[citation needed] again leaving without releasing anything. Free then signed with Underground Universe Records.

In 2004, Free released her first mixtape, Free's World, which was sponsored by DJ Enuff and DJ Kast One. Later that year, a song called "Gotta Leave" was featured on a mixtape along with other solo debuts like LeToya & Omarion.[citation needed]

In 2007, Free signed with The Inc. Records.[citation needed] That November, she hosted Atlanta's Dirty Awards.[citation needed]

[edit] Discography

[edit] Mixtapes

  • 2004: Free's World

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