Artist

Khalifa Abdul Hamid

Khalifa Abdul Hamid is hip hop only, 17 tracks deep. The voice is sharp and instructive — "If I Warned You," "One Heart, One Shaykh," "Nobody Cares," "Strip The Illusion," "800 Sins" — every song built around the Naqshbandi lesson that to rise you have to be willing to disappear. Verses cut close to the bone.