He sold his younger sister's record player to purchase a bus ticket to New York City, where he joined the Last Poets.
In 1994, Bin Hassan appeared on the Red Hot Organization's compilation CD, Stolen Moments: Red Hot + Cool, appearing on a track titled "This is Madness" alongside Abiodun Oyewole and Pharoah Sanders.
[citation needed] Bin Hassan appeared on the 2013 Dead Prez album, Information Age (Deluxe Edition).
In 2018, Bin Hassan was the subject of a documentary film entitled Scared of Revolution, which was written and directed by the Dutch filmmaker Daniel Krikke.
[1] In 2023, Bin Hassan wrote a memoir in comic book form entitled Up South in Akron, which was published by Music Arkives.