Complex: So Fredo, a lot of our readers would be surprised to know you're a devout Muslim. Has this only been recently, or has Islam always been in your life?
Fredo: [pauses to hit his marijuana filled blunt reflectively] You know, man...it's really always been in me, on folks them. As a shorty I used to see the nikkas on the corner with the beards and the robes and the lil' hats, and we would laugh like 'Ay man, on BD, look at them goofies.' But as I done got older I realize the pivotal role Allah plays in my life.
Complex: So as a Muslim, you don't find a problem in the lifestyle you lead?
Fredo: Don't get me wrong bro, I love Islam man. But out here in Chiraq we don't got it like they do.
Complex: What do you mean?
Fredo: Like...nikka, we ain't got no Mecca. [laughs] How you want some nikkas from Southside Englewood to make a pilgrimage across the other side of the world? We can't do all that over here man. [SD joins in laughter from other room] Nah man, over here there's none of that. Lamron is our Mecca.
Complex: Understandable. Surely you have ways of showing your faith, though?
Fredo: Yea, no doubt. No doubt. Even though we drillin' in the field, we still make Salat. [laughs] You know in my hood we Die 5 so there aint no Five Pillars. We too busy eating on the block to be fasting. That's 300 shyt. We don't do that there. And I already told y'all about that pilgrim shyt. Nah.
