"The drug wars were between rival Asian areas, but there’s never been any racism in the community for decades. "I soon got into rap music and followed the likes of Biggy and Tupac. Shafiq said: “I stayed away from Islamic rap because at the time I didn’t want to sing about Islam without practicing it fully myself. He also performed alongside Muslim Belal and Khaled Siddiq, big names on the Islamic rap scene. Some rap music is about violence and murder.