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'Marie Wright' known by her stage name 'Free' aka 'Marie Antoinette', is an American rapper and singer. She is also a former host of 106 & Park on BET and a former radio disc jockey at KKBT 100.3 The Beat music station in Los Angeles.

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106 & Park: B.E.T.'s Top Ten Live

Music Career

Discography

Album

Mixtape

Other Songs

106 & Park: B.E.T.'s Top Ten Live

Free started hosting ''106 & Park'' in 2000 alongside A.J. Calloway. After hosting the show for five years, Free left the show after her contract ran out. A new agreement could not be reached due to disputes with the B.E.T. executives. She was originally brought back to the B.E.T. family by executive Stephen Hill, who she met back in Boston working for an urban/gospel radio station WILD 1090 based in Roxbury.

Music Career

Free's involvement in mainstrem music can be traced back to the early 1990's. She began showing her talents as a budding female rapper with the Wyclef Jean's Refugee Camp group. In 1998 she appeared on Canibus's debut album, ''Can-I-Bus'' with a verse on the opening song, "Partriots." She would later appear with Canibus again, this time joined by Lenny Kravitz on Pras's track, "Can't Stop the Shining," from his debut album, ''Ghetto Supastar''. Free also had a verse in the 1998 update of Queen's "Another One Bites The Dust," featured in the ''Small Soldiers'' movie soundtrack.
After '98 Free started recording under the pseudonym, 'Marie Antoinette'. She continued to support Wyclef in his solo career, rapping on his remix of the song "New Day," fron the ''Life'' movie soundtrack, and then later again on Wyclef's Solo album, ''The Ecleftic,'' on the song, "Da Cypha," her last mark on the rap world before becoming a co-host on BET's 106 & Park.
During her time with 106 & Park, Free signed to Elektra Records. She wrote tracks for her upcoming album but the record label Elektra went belly up. She was then put into production with Motown Records, where Sylvia Rhone (former owner of Elektra) led her. Free did not feel that this was the right label for her, so she left and signed to Underground Universe records. Free and Sylvia still remain good friends. She later sold her album to Def Jam Records. She was in the process of being signed, but due to pregancy rumors involving C.E.O. Shawn Jay-Z Carter nothing came of the deal. In 2004, Free released her first mixtape called "Free's World" which was sponsored by D.J. Enuff and Kast One. In 2007, Free signed to The Inc. record label. Free has been working on her new album which is rumored to be called "Pressure Free". In 2004, a song called "Gotta Leave" was featured on a mixtape along with other solo debuts like LeToya & Omarion.
Salaam Remi recently spoke about the album-AllHipHop.com: That’s big. A lot people are looking into releasing things on the net these days. I almost forgot, you’re also working with Free from 106 & Park. The buzz about her skills was high for a while but has kind of fallen off due to some tracks released on the net. I know you were doing some work with her on her debut album. Can you tell us anything about that?
Salaam Remi: I mean, Free has talent across the boards. She can rap, sing, whatever. She has more music than I can possibly count, but she’s been working on a lot of stuff over the last month or two. You should definitely get some new music from her over the next week or two. And the album should be out before the end of the year. She just wants to work on the songs and I’m like “let them go so we can get this done.” Same with a lot of artists I work with- Miss Hill, her stuff is incredible from what I’ve heard of it. When you’ll hear it, I don’t know.
AllHipHop.com: Excited about that project. How much discretion do you use when choosing artists to work with?

Discography

Album

★ 2007: "Pressure Free"

Mixtape

★ 2004: "Free's World"

Other Songs

★ "2 Shy 2 Do It"

★ "Lost Without You"

★ "I Love You"

★ "21 Answers"

★ "Wait (The Whisper Song)"

★ "Patriot"

★ "Focus (remix)"

★ "Fighting Temptations"

★ "Talk To Me"

★ "Buddy"

★ "Another One Bites the Dust"