The stress and complexities that celebrity life in the music industry, and specifically the hip-hop portion of it, are enough to drive a sane man mad. Artists who once starred in music videos surrounded by scantily dressed women and expensive cars, have turned to religion to help keep some sort of balance and self-understanding in their hectic and at times, superficial lives. Imagine the pressure of living up to an image that was created and molded like a gob of clay. Imagine friends you have grown up with, shared laughs and meals with, turning against you out of pure jealousy; or a bucket of crabs trying to pull you down to their level at any cost. Not to mention the industry politics that control an artists ability to actually create and release their own musical vision in a timely manner. Loon, a rap artist from Harlem, who was once all over TV and radio while signed to P. Diddy's Bad Boy Records, has turned to Islam for some of these same reasons. In an interview with famed television network Al Jazeera, Loon says that he is finally at peace with himself. Watching the ear to ear smile Loon easily displays while discussing his new life stage, it is obvious that he is a new and better place. His shaggy beard almost completly disguises him from the rapping "bad boy" (as the reporter refers to him as) he once was.