Hamza Perez is a Puerto Rican former American rap artist who converted to Islam. He has been ranked as one of the 500 most influential Muslims in the world by the royal strategic Islamic center. Hamza spends his time on the streets and jail cells spreading the message of Islam to at-risk youth and communities. He was also a member of the hip-hop group M-Team, a music group that consisted of Hamza and his brother Suliman Perez. They used hip-hop to spread their faith and religious message to other young people. Hamza is the founder of the S.H.E.H.U. Program (Services Helping to Empower and Heal Urban Communities) and one of the co-founders of the Light of the Age Mosque in Pittsburgh, PA. He has also worked with the interfaith poetry project Crossing Limits. In 2009, PBS released a movie entitled "New Muslim Cool" about his life, music, and community.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]

His conversion story is featured in "Latino Muslims: Our Journeys to Islam."[8]

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  1. ↑ Jennifer Maytorena Taylor (2009-06-23). "New Muslim Cool | POV". PBS. Retrieved 2017-01-17.
  2. ↑ Morales, Harold Daniel (2012). Latino Muslim by Design. University of California, Riverside. ISBN 9781267729910. Retrieved 2017-01-17.
  3. ↑ "Jason Hamza Perez". RapSessions.org. Retrieved 2017-01-17.
  4. ↑ "NEW MUSLIM COOL trailer". YouTube. 2009-03-10. Retrieved 2017-01-18.
  5. ↑ Ginia Bellafante (2009-06-22). "Islam, Hope and Charity Inspire Dealer Turned Rapper". The New York Times. Retrieved 2017-01-18.
  6. ↑ Bakari Kitwana (2011-05-25). "New Muslim Cool Forges Path for New America". HuffingtonPost.com. Retrieved 2017-01-18.
  7. ↑ "Puerto Rican-American Rapper Hamza Pérez's Journey to Islam". IslamicBulletin.org. 2009-09-01. Retrieved 2017-01-18.
  8. ↑ Galvan, Juan, ed. (2017). Latino Muslims: Our Journeys to Islam. LatinoMuslims.net. ISBN 9781530007349. Retrieved 15 January 2018.


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