(Cover) - EN Showbiz - Swizz Beatz is proud of his Monster Mondays initiative, because its taken the politics out of the music business.

The rapper unveiled the plan last year, explaining he was going to release new tracks on Mondays which would be available to download from the internet for free. It followed in the footsteps of Kanye Wests G.O.O.D. Fridays campaign, which saw him give fans new tracks at no cost too.

Swizz teamed up with many different musicians for Monster Mondays including Busta Rhymes and Pharrell Williams, but hes most proud of his work with Rakim. He cant believe he convinced the legendary rapper to take part, and believes their collaboration shows the face of music is changing.

My favourite song on there is King Tut. Getting a chance to work with Rakim and let people to just hear him, like, in 2010 when he did it. Like, that's Rakim right there. Just to be able to say that I did that was super fun and [there's] no politics involved, he explained. We don't gotta deal with nobody. It's no politics - I'm not talking to no labels, no management. It's like, 'Yo, you either wanna do it or not.

Swizz starting working on his new record Haute Living last year, and has confirmed it will feature songs with Lil Wayne, Jay-Z, Bono and his wife Alicia Keys. He plans to make the first single available via Monster Mondays, but not the whole album.

Monster Mondays is its own entity for right now. But will I put my first single on Monster Mondays? 100%. Monster Mondays, Swizzworld, 100%, he told MTV News. I'm gonna promote my stuff when it's time. That's really just a forum for people to promote great music, which is now turning into them shooting videos for it, labels putting up budgets for it. It's just a great forum. (C) Cover Media