Yasiin Bey
East Coast rapper Mos Def, who now goes by Yasiin Bey, is a Muslim rapper. The first lyrics on his breakthrough album, “Black on Both Sides” were, “Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Raheem” (”In the name of God, the most gracious, the most merciful.”)
“You’re not gonna get through life without being worshipful or devoted to something,” he told Beliefnet in 2001. “You’re either devoted to your job, or to your desires. So the best way to spend your life is to try to be devoted to prayer, to Allah.”
