Career
Salaam organizes food and clothing drives in Jersey City on the third Sunday of each month. Salaam started rapping at the age of 10. After seeing a preview for the movie Malcolm X in 1992 he read the Autobiography of Malcolm X, which inspired him.
Salaam featured on the United Kingdom Hip hop group Mecca2Medina"s Truthseekers album in 2006.
Exclaim! described the album as "well rounded" and "handled superbly", saying that Salaam has a voice that is "trained like an instrument, commands attention". Salaam organizes food and clothing drives in Jersey City on the third Sunday of each month.
Hasan works with charities, non-profits, and youth all over the world. In November 2010, Hasan became the first United States hip hop artist to ever perform in Guinea-Bissau.
On this same trip he worked with the young artists, taught creative writing to the youth, and headlined a concert to promote freedom of speech.
The “Music Is My Weapon” project is the next step, in an effort to provide change to a country that remains one of the poorest and least politically stable in the world. December 2011, Hasan Salaam released an European Parliament "Music Is My Weapon" employing all profits to build a well, school, and clinic in Guinea-Bissau.
