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Lupe Fiasco
Lupe Fiasco has stated on MTV's Rap Fix as well as in various other media that he is a Muslim, and that Islam "plays a part in my life and everything I do, to a certain extent... I don’t like putting my religion out there; I don’t like wearing it like that, because I don’t want people to look at me as the poster child for Islam. I’m not. I don’t want them to look at my flaws and be like, ‘oh, that’s the flaws of Islam’." His mixtape series
Fahrenheit 1/15
featured a remix of Kanye West's "Jesus Walks" entitled "Muhammad Walks", which went on to become very popular in the Muslim community. He can be heard using Islamic recitals in "Hurt Me Soul", "Little Weapon", "Hi-Definition" as well as the intro and outro tracks to
Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor
.
Muhammad Walks
And to the sisters and the mothers of ours
Who cover theyselves cause they're lovers of God
The Creator of the worlds, Sculptor of the stars,
During Hajj we walk, through Ramadaan we starve
Though you not eatin, there's a feedin of the mind
A defeatin of the demons, a seein' of the signs
A leanin on the lines from the surahs
Getting purer, God deemed it unclean(
Ther's no eatin of the swine)
Nor drinkin' of the wine
Sources: http://www.lupefiasco.com/
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