alhamdulillah peace be with you we have
an exciting show for you today here on
the dean show a former tour manager for
some of the most famous celebrities out
there in the world and he's here on the
dean show to give us some of the Insight
on what really goes on behind the scenes
so you don't want to miss this show here
on the dean show George Green we'll be
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the dean show and with us former tour
manager for some of the most famous
celebrities in the world George Green
welcome to the dean show assalam alikum
peace be with youum Salam how are you my
brother alhamdulillah I'm doing well
thank you George Green tell us a little
bit about your history and the work you
used to do with people such as Jay-Z 50
and the likes of um I've had the
opportunity to work for Jay-Z at U his
multi-million dollar record label
Rockefeller records for about 6 to 8
years I um I started off as an intern be
before actually working for Jay-Z and uh
once hired in and got the opportunity I
started off as uh doing marketing
branding and promotions and that led
into tour management what were some of
the other famous celebrities that you
worked with in the past before coming to
Islam
I've worked for uh 50 Cent I've worked
for Kanye West I've worked for I've
worked with Snoop I've worked with um
Jim Jones Cameron I've worked with uh
the countless A-list artists the the
list is it's it's extremely long I mean
so many too many to name actually tell
us what attracted you to this lifestyle
well the lifestyle is welcoming the
lifestyle it's appealing to to to Young
some sometime older older mature people
as well I mean the the the cars the
jewelry the women the money the the just
the extreme lifestyle of of of looking
like you have no problems and you are
just in a a comfortable appealing
lifestyle George Green tell us being
around all these celebrities all these
famous people can you tell us what was
the day-to-day lifestyle of a celebrity
like well the day-to-day lifestyle
consists instead of drugs women alcohol
partying and and just count countless
traveling just numerous hours of
traveling tour bus planes and uh lots of
partying lots of partying now here's a
crucial question were you
happy I I personally was not happy I was
just looking for something that I never
was able to find I had no substance I
was looking
for women daily drugs daily uh just just
just constant things that never made me
feel complete as a person uh I never
found that sense of completeness
completeness I never found the
opportunity to feel whole and and and
just
um feeling like I was able to to find
myself I was constantly chasing the same
thing the short-term happiness and the
shortterm Fulfillment never found what I
was looking for until I found Allah La
George along with working for some of
the most famous people in the world
these celebrities that you mentioned did
you get a chance to hang out with them
while you weren't working on a regular
basis yes I I was actually I toured with
them everywhere they went from City to
City Country to Country um most of the
time we we just toured uh performed did
our our shows uh whatever country or
city we were in and most people not
naming any names everyone would
afterwards resort to to to women uh the
drugs the alcohol the short-term
fulfillment it's it's all a fantasy it's
a fantasy of of short-term happiness
short-term fun and you just repeat it
over and over and over daily now George
tell us when did you get exposed to
Islam well I was exposed to Islam about
five six years ago traveling abroad I
was exposed to the Middle East
and once I was in this in the Middle
East I got a chance to see Islam from a
different perspective because um growing
up and seeing a lot of Muslims I I
wasn't really exposed to a lot of
practicing Muslims and I was exposed to
the American Media which didn't portray
really the best example of a Muslim so
going to the Middle East allowed me a
chance to see Islam from a different
perspective and I saw how welcoming
people were
towards Islam I saw the unity and I saw
the the brother and Sisterhood and I saw
the everyone were unified as to how they
went to pray and everyone was unified
into uh doing things by Islam and uh I
was just impressed by that and I started
to take an interest and started to study
and read and ask questions to active PR
practicing Muslims and um Shah you know
mashallah I'm now here a Muslim and
I um I was able to
basically find out for myself the truth
of Islam and I just took an interest and
I took my shahada and here I am now a
Muslim George when was the turning point
in your life where you finally realized
that Islam submission Islam is simply an
Arabic word which means submission to
the will of God when did you realize
that this was indeed the truth revealed
from the Creator not a man-made religion
organized by man or men but indeed it
was from the cre of the heavens and
earth when did you finally realize this
well I was always searching for I never
once claimed a religion and I was always
searching I always believed in God I
always believed in a higher power but I
never could really find what I wanted
through Christianity or any of these
other things
so I I just had a I woke up one day and
and just started to research about the
the holy books I started to find out
more about the Holy Quran about how the
Integrity of Islam was protected for
over a thousand years I started to find
out more about the prophet Muhammad may
peace be upon him and I was convinced
that Islam was the correct way I was
convinced that Allah was the only way
and I was convinced that it was time for
me to become a Muslim George tell us how
has Islam improved your
life um Islam has improved my life in in
several areas it has allowed me to
become more patient it has allowed me to
to see uh life in a broader perspective
become a better man uh not live a
worldly Temptation
lifestyle um and it has allowed me to be
more responsible as a man and as uh one
with my relationship with Allah and it
it has allowed me to just be more less
temp tempting
and more responsible as a person has
allowed me to be uh step away from
worldly Temptations and continue to ask
Allah to to guide me continue to give me
more patience and it has just
strengthened my relationship with Allah
in many ways before Islam came into my
life let's go back in history just a
little bit more did you ever rap
yourself I was more hired help never rap
never was an artist I was always hired
help I was always the person responsible
for helping the artist to be successful
on tour I'm responsible for helping them
to have what they need on stage dressing
rooms helping them to uh be punctual
helping them be detailed on tour things
like that George tell us now you've
gotten to spend a lot of time with some
of the most famous people famous
celebrities people that are out there
people are idolizing them you got to
spend time with them now you were behind
the scenes tell us did you see them as
truly being happy truly having peace and
contentment in life well I can't really
speak for people but I know myself uh
most of these people are are living
Lifestyles and it's all smoking mirrors
it's all imagery um I I don't want to
speak for anyone but I'm sure that these
people are not uh completely happy with
this lifestyle because this lifestyle
brings along other things it brings
along violence it brings along uh more
Temptation it brings
along it welcomes uh lots of issues and
I'm sure that it's a very stressful
lifestyle when you have to portray a
certain image in the Public's eye and
and and when you are rapping or singing
about this lifestyle you have to live it
as well and I'm sure this is not the
easiest thing to do George tell us has
it been challenging being a new Muslim
it's been very challenging being a new
Muslim uh I deal with multiple
challenges I deal with a lot of uh
worldly challenges that I have you know
been asking Allah to continue to remove
me from I've had it's uh a lot of
cultural challenges deal with a lot of
uh
just other Muslims uh interested in you
changing overnight um other Muslims
being a little um rough on you
everything you do is considered Haram
and um it it's tough but it's and it's
always the worldly Temptations are
always seem to be more welcoming now
that you are closer to Allah these
things become more welcoming more women
come your
way
more worldly Temptations come your way
and it's just a challenge to try to stay
away from these things and and and it
seems the more you get closer to Allah
the more worldly Temptations come into
your life or try to come into your life
because Allah has been doing a great job
with keeping me focused keeping me away
from these things and and helping me get
to a better place we'll be right back
when it's close to death they say oh God
don't let me die um but he's got
something better than this world what's
God going to get out of punishing you
anyway
we have to connect to this understanding
that the Quran is from God that Muhammad
is his messenger and the answers to the
problems in our life are there and if
we're going to worship something I
figured I might as well worship the
Creator instead of any of the
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alone George moving along we have a few
more questions for you tell us how did
the men in this business view women tell
us about
that well again I I I can only speak for
myself but I I personally would uh look
for women as sexual desires at the time
I would uh try to conquer as many women
as I could sexually at the time I would
uh be disrespectful with language I
would be disrespectful with uh my
actions
and now I'm in a place where I I
recognize that this is this is totally
wrong this is totally Haram I wouldn't
want to
uh have anyone speak to my daughter if
if inshallah Allah was to bless me with
a daughter one day I wouldn't want
anyone to view my my mother or my
grandmother in any kind of uh
disrespectful manner I wouldn't want to
have
anyone womanwise in my family to walk
around half-dressed or or or being
belittled or whis whistled or derogatory
statements spoken to them uh so I
decided to change my way of thinking
about women uh stop with the sexual
desires and lusting and Temptation and I
just realized that this was the
incorrect way of being and I've was
taught this way for so many years that
it had became a part of my everyday
lifestyle George tell us what advice do
you have for those people out there who
are inspiring to be like these
celebrities these people who you used to
want to be like before Islam tell us
well my advice would be to understand
that this is uh a lifestyle of no return
uh this is a lifestyle that has uh no
fulfillment it's a constant Chase every
day for the the same thing you're
chasing the women the money the the cars
the light you're chasing the lifestyle
and you you still never find that
completeness and that fulfillment
fulfill
so my advice would be to uh seek Allah
and to these worldly Temptations are are
they they take you nowhere they just
take you to a a short-term happiness uh
shortterm fulfillness and and it doesn't
it's it's shortterm short-term
fulfillment is short-term happiness and
once you seek Allah Allah provides you
with that void that you've been missing
such as
myself Allah provides you with that
that happiness Allah provides you with
the the all the tools and all of the
survival tactics and and survival kits
that you need to complete the happiness
when it comes to women when it comes to
financial uh things when it comes to uh
uh any of these kind of things Allah
will provided I can say so because I am
a living Testament and a living example
of this lifestyle and I have SE Allah I
have found Allah and now I am happy and
those voids have been fulfilled by Allah
George tell us a couple more questions
has it been challenging establishing
some of the tenants of Islam the five
daily prayers you know seeking knowledge
because Islam stimulates the mind and
the more you study the more you're
convinced that this is indeed the truth
and it's a way of life that requires
some discipline has it been challenging
well it it it's all a challenge to start
but you know I continuously ask Allah to
make it easy for me because I come many
many years my entire life I've lived
this lifestyle so now becoming a new
Muslim uh it it's it is a challenge it
is it is constant work it's constant
prayer and um I I do the best that I can
as continuously keeping my faith and I'm
constantly tested every day and um I
have done an incredibly remarkable
job thus far as a a new Muslim and um
it's not easy it's not easy at all but
you know mashallah I'm doing the best
that I can George tell us with many of
the challenges that you've had now
looking back do you have any regrets
with the decision that you've made to
become a Muslim one who has submitted
himself entirely to the one
Creator well I I don't necessarily say
that I have regrets I will say that
living that worldly lifestyle with
public figures and and and music uh it
did allow me to to see the world
something that I would have not have
been able to do uh if I wasn't allow
this opportunity it's allowed me to go
to almost 50 countries I've been to
almost all 50 states I've been um an out
to box thinker it's allowed me to
discover Islam it's allowed me to uh be
more Global as my way of
thinking but it also provided me with a
a tempting lifestyle and with a you know
Haram lifestyle but I don't think I
would ever take it back or or or go back
to it if I was offered the
opportunity now being a Muslim I'm happy
and more and concerned about my
salvation my relationship with Allah and
I think that
everyone who experiences this lifestyle
should just consider picking up the
Quran speaking to Muslims and finding
out about Islam
and understanding that that lifestyle is
a long journey to destruction great
having you on the show on The Dean show
thank you very much George thank you so
much assalamu alaykum peace be with
youkum Salam working for some of the
most famous individuals out there in the
world and he woke up I'm
static to see people waking up realizing
that you know what that's the wrong way
as he said let's learn a lesson from his
life that that way of life is a road to
destruction now why you want to go down
a road that's the road to destruction
when you see people living an egocentric
life narcissist just full of themselves
just consuming and as you can see in
some of the
pictures all about the bling bling baby
cars rides not thinking about about the
soul there's more to life there's more
to life than filling your belly driving
a Bentley rolling around in a rollsroyce
getting all the ladies and the women and
the woman there's more to your life than
just being a material possession and
chasing a man with money there's more to
these things than the reality TV shows
Jersey shores
MTV n nighttime daytime drama we have to
wake up and that brother woke up and
these shows that we put
on are supposed to be for us to benefit
from their experiences because if
somebody already went down a one-way
Street you don't have to go down that
oneway street also there is a purpose to
life he realized what it was so we
really want people to ponder and think
contemplate are you really happy do you
really have true peace and contentment
in life many of those people as he said
it's a facade from the outside it's all
Smiles because who doesn't smile for the
camera but when the lights are on the
part's
over and then what they're having to
deal with themselves and they've been
corrupting themselves corrupting their
bodies so God Almighty has sent the
guidance throughout time and it's simple
to understand Islam is not something
dubious unclear hayy it's really
straightforward that there's one Creator
he created you he's the one that feeds
you he's the one that takes care of you
and he loves you he loves you that's
right so no matter what you've done in
the past start fresh today a new page a
new beginning and reach out to the one
who created you and ask him for
guidance God loves you he's given you
everything that you have don't you love
the
Creator so ask him for
guidance
sincerely
earnestly want it and then start to
really weigh out what's more
important some of these things that I'm
doing from day to day the partying the
drinking getting drunk smoking weed dope
chasing women the wom chasing the men
fashion
magazines wasting time wasting time and
at the end we die and then we wake up
then the rowy kicks in oh my God it's
over and then you didn't prepare for the
Ultimate Reality death that's right and
then the day of judgment and we have to
decide now are we going to be people of
the Hellfire or people of the paradise
and God Almighty he don't get nothing
out of punishing us he wants the best
for us that's why he warned people about
the day of judgment and the Hellfire he
sent Messengers and it's been very
straightforward elusive message worship
the Unseen Supreme being the one who
created you as soon as religion gets
mystical and weird and bizarre then it's
a red light here hold up that's a
man-made philosophy IDE ology but the
ideology the way of life that's Lucid
clear understandable no ambiguity in it
it's straightforward is that way that's
been there since the beginning since the
first man submit yourself entirely to
the one God the one Supreme Being no
operators no secretary direct dialup God
doesn't have sons or daughters he
doesn't do these animalistic things that
we do as human beings no don't insult
God don't insult God there's a passage
from the Bible in job it says what is
man but uh a maggot this is in the Bible
and what is the son of man the son of
man is a worm so when you see compared
to God we're specks what are we instead
of saying glory be to God we insult God
by bringing him down to the level of a
human being you wouldn't want Mercy from
a judge and call the judge say hey son
of a monkey could you forgive me no you
wouldn't like it if somebody called you
a maggot would you what about calling
the Creator bringing him down to the
level of a human being and insulting him
many of us been programmed that God had
a son that he died no God doesn't die
Jesus prayed to the one God Jesus
submitted to the one God Jesus was a
Muslim just like George Green accepted
Islam submission to the one God he's a
Muslim now he's chosen not to submit to
Muhammad or to the Sun or the moon he
decided to submit to the one who created
Jesus the one who created Moses the one
who created you me and everything in
this universe and that's where it begins
with oh I can just keep talking it's
exciting because it's simple to
understand Islam means submission look
at the word submission not to yourself
not to your desires not to anyone or
anything but submission to the one who
created you is he not worthy of praise
and thanks he gave you everything so
thank him call upon Him establish a
relationship with him forget about the
past because when you accept Islam all
your previous sins
they're eradicated they're erased you
have a new beginning so it's a call to
action look into the Quran this is your
first time viewing the show it's the
verbatim word of God unchanged tamper
free tamper
proof is the way of life that was sent
down by the Creator throughout time one
religion because it's one recipient me
and you the human beings so it's one
message worship the one unseen Creator
and don't worship His creation and obey
the messenger that was sent and Muhammad
is the last and final messenger
accepting him you accept Jesus Moses
Abraham and all the other Messengers
that came and they all came with the
same message do God's will not your
desires and if you've been watching the
shows or even if it's your first time
you're like this is it it makes sense
and I'm ready to change because death
can hits you when you turn the channel
you can walk out the street and then
what what do you got so you have to be
on the right way and that right way is
the way that God Almighty sent down
submission to his will call the number
on that screen and make that first step
acknowledge that there is a Creator
there's no God but the one God in Arabic
we say Allah in Aramaic Jesus said
allaha so it's not some foreign God some
Moon God no it's the one creator that
gives you the eyes that you see with the
heart that you love with the air that
you breathe is he not worthy of thanks
and that's where it starts with being
thankful and grateful being one that
wants the truth because when you want it
it's there now you you got to decide am
I going to continue to live a life of
debauchery just chasing my WIS and
desires and then I die and I lose this
world because we're all going to die and
then I lose Paradise the next life and
what's waiting for me then a hot place
don't end up being tricked and fooled by
the satanic forces work hard to be the
best human being that you can be and the
only way you can do that is by
acknowledging that I have a Creator and
I'm ready to worship him I'm going to
follow the brute print that was sent
down throughout time
and that's in the Quran verbatim word of
God so much more to cover but start with
this first step call us call us tell
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ready to be one who has submitted to the
will of God like George green and over
1.5 billion people out there in the
world today slam says love all mankind
that's why we're sharing this message
because we want the best for you and we
want the best for all mankind we'll see
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you