Buy U A Drank

T-Pain, the Grammy Award-winning rapper/singer from Florida has become a near ubiquitous in pop music, from his frequent collaborations (most recently with Flo Rida on "Low") to his own hits ("Buy U A Drank", "I'm In Luv Wit A Stripper"). T-Pain was born near Tallahassee as Faheem Najm to Muslim parents. There are a large number of Muslim entertainers in the US and Europe, many of them involved in Hip-Hop and RnB. We will feature many such entertainers on this site, but I thought T-Pain would be good introduction precisely because there is nothing obviously evident of his Muslim background in his familiar prescence. Muslims are a diverse and complictated group of humans like any other and their faith isn't always at the forefront of their identity. Or as Faheem told the Australian News in an interview when asked what is like to be Muslim in America:

"It's like being any other person," he says. "I'm still a person, a human being, no matter what religion I am."

But has the war on terror changed perceptions about Muslim faith?

"People don't even know," T-Pain says. "Me, Busta Rhymes, Lupe Fiasco - they don't even know we are Muslim. People think a Muslim has to have a turban or a big beard. It's stupid."

To explore the mysterious world of T-Pain you can visit his official website here http://www.t-pain.net/