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It's noon on a Friday, and the parking lot at Al-Aqsa Islamic Society in North Philadelphia is quickly filling up.
One of Philadelphia's best-known rap artists, Freeway, jumps out of a black sport utility vehicle and dashes through the pouring rain to the prayer hall inside.
Islam has been a part of his life since he was a teenager. Yet it wasn't until adulthood that his faith changed who he was an artist.
"My faith means everything to me; it's the thing that keeps me going every day," the father of two said. "It's my core, it's my soul."