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Hit the Freeway

"Hit the Freeway"
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Single by Toni Braxton featuring Loon
from the album More Than a Woman
B-side "And I Love You"
Released October 15, 2002
Format CD single, 7" single
Recorded 2002
Genre
Length 3:48
Label Arista
Writer(s) Pharrell Williams, Chauncey Hawkins
Producer(s) The Neptunes
Toni Braxton singles chronology
"Christmas in Jamaica"
(2001)
"Hit the Freeway"
(2002)
"Please"
(2005)
Loon singles chronology
"Young & Sexy"
(2002)
"Hit the Freeway"
(2002)
"Crazy"
(2003)

"Hit the Freeway" is a song by the American recording artist Toni Braxton, released as the lead-single from her fourth studio album, More Than a Woman (2002). The song, which features American rapper Loon, was written by Pharrell Williams and Loon himself, while production was handled by Pharrell's production duo The Neptunes. It is an R&B and hip-hop song, with lyrics about an ex trying to rekindle with Braxton, but Braxton claims she's not interested in him anymore.

The song received generally favorable reviews from music critics, who praised its catchiness and contagiousness, and picked it as a stand-out track. However, the song proved to be a failure on the charts, reaching the top-forty in Canada, Sweden, Switzerland and UK, while only reaching number 86 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart. A music video, directed by Charles Infante and Dave Meyers, was released in October 2002 and it features Braxton being chased by her ex.

After the success of her third studio album, "The Heat" (2000) and its lead single "He Wasn't Man Enough", which led her to win a Grammy for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance, Braxton promised an upbeat new album, saying, "People like the slow, miserable love songs of Toni Braxton, but maybe the Prozac is working now, so let's give 'em some happier songs." She started recording the album in March 2001, claiming that after a few tough years, she had a new personal happiness to bring to her music, part of that, she said, stems from her engagement to Keri Lewis of Mint Condition.


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