Listening to the music genre had a profound impact on Ismael Lea South when he was growing up.
While he admits initially he would simply be "nodding your head to the beat", Ismael soon began noticing more about what his favourite artists were saying.
The next big moment for Ishmael was when he was invited by a friend to visit Speaker's Corner in central London where rap group Cash Crew were performing while on tour. "I started to ask him about Islam, I said 'there's some things I don't really agree with Islam' and he broke down that," he says. While initially being sceptical about becoming a Muslim, "as I want to have some fun while I'm young", he eventually decided he was ready to convert.Ismael formed his own Sufi hip-hop act called Mecca to Medina
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