Nouman Ali Khan was born in Saudi Arabia, but now teaches Arabic at various venues in the United States and Canada. He is the head of the Bayyinah Arabic Studies Institute. While a guest on The Deen Show, Nouman Ali Khan was asked the following question:

“I listen to lots of Hip-Hop and MTV Cribs. I can’t seem to focus on getting close to God. What’s your advice?”

Nouman Ali Khan answered:
Stop watching MTV Cribs, and don’t listen to Hip-Hop.

I think nowadays music is probably one of the easiest ways to lose your moral sense. Music is audio pornography, today. That’s what it is. It’s explicit, it’s shameless, it’s vulgar, it takes your sense of humanity away from you. It makes you look at women as objects. Worse than objects, as animals. These people are talking about women like they’re talking about an animal, really. It objectifies women and especially I’ve noticed that a lot of the brothers that I know of that are really into the Hip-Hop scene are memorizing the song, and are really good at reciting the song… They do that, and it’s just horrible language …
When you say horrible things, when you say things that are in direct contradiction to moral gauge that Allah gifted us with, then obviously you’re deviating from your natural fitra – your predisposition to turn to Allah. When you constantly listen to garbage like that, you get deviated. And you don’t find pleasure except in disobedience to Allah, and that’s the sign of a sick heart…
The one thing that Allah gave every human being is time. And what is music and TV and YouTube and Facebook and MySpace and Twitter and whatever else. If you’re spending hours and hours on this stuff, what is it but destroying your time. It’s taking that one asset away from you. Satan would love nothing more. May Allah give you the strength to get away from these temptations.
My advice – that I keep going over – is: Find better friends. Find company that is not into these things. Try to spend more time with them so that you will wean yourself off of these habits. Bismillah.