Hasan Salaam - Building A Community

A lot of rappers talk about wanting to build something, but very few mean it in the physical sense, the way New Jersey’s Hasan Salaam does. With his latest album, Music Is My Weapon, he’s hoping to not just continue to build on his already large fan base that knows him from his solo work as well as his work with Rugged N Raw as one half of Mohammad Dangerfield, Salaam is hoping to build a well, a school and a medical facility in Djati, West Africa. He’s calling the project It Takes A Village, and it stems from work he’s been doing with people in the Guinea-Bissau community, and a trip he took there last year.

This week I caught up with Salaam to find out how he became involved in Guinea-Bissau’s cause, why his goals aren’t going to be as difficult to reach financially as one might think, and why the n-word is something he never wants to be called.

Read the full interview at RapReviews.com.