They said "this boy is shy...this boy too quiet...this boy need open up and project more....he don't talk enough..." Well, this "boy" is a man now. And has grown to be the truth and speak it to the masses. The truth has always spoken...people jus wasn't listening...until now. Growing up in one of Brooklyn,NY's most well known sections for violence and crime in Crown Heights...Even his teachers, as far back as the 4th grade admired his articulative way with words. This " shy boy" has always had eye for realness and a mind of insight, productivity, intuitiveness and prosperity. And also what most rarely saw or noticed, a mouth full of reckless honesty.

"I admit, being the youngest of six brothers it wasn't easy for me to open up to any and every new person I met. Through the ongoing years, up to today...I think I've mostly evolved out of that "shyness cocoon" everyone seemed to label me with. Though the high school years were a stressfull and trying time for me in more ways than one; my first release of tension with this yet untamed mouth piece wasn't with poetry, but music. And have written a little around a dozen songs, even had a little group with my brothers called "B4". That was way before the group "B5" came along. But life happened and the group dispanded before having a chance to even putting something out to pursue that dream. It change to poetry when writing music didn't feeling like enough and I left that on hiatus. Poetry then took center stage around the end of high school. My mind was far from set at that point and it went on hiatus too."

Until my 1st yr. in college in 2007. When I was reinspired to write again by joining a creative writing/poetry club and started even performing at school events. Which also lead to venues around manhattans lower East side...which I performed in such places as Bowery Poetry Club...which was the first open mic poetry venue I had ever been in;  Nuyorican Poets Cafe; (Where I took on the nick name of Honest Abe, though I think the name goes even as far back as elemtery school) and now New World Stages in the TimOut NY Lounge. Even as recently at 449 LA in Harlem,NY, The Spot  and Skippers Restaurant in Newark, NJ . Also being a featured artist at the Time Square Arts center, Lyrical Revolt at La Pregunta Arts cafe, Water street Lounge, Soul Sweet Sanctuary in the Bronx, Afrikan Poetry Theater, Moomia Lounge, National Black theater in Harlem, Club Vesta, and as recently as The Perch cafe in Brooklyn and Oze Tavern in the Bronx. Some still consider the name a cliche monikr, but they know better once hearing one of my poems...schooling them about it. I really started using my voice and experiences and bringing them to life back on stage(another place I was on hiatus from being for some time). Starting to participate in more and more slams after observing and hearing other poetic artist doing there thing. While honing my own style in the process. My status as  student at Kingsborough Community college(for the time being, studying in Liberal arts) in brooklyn, has changed in some ways recently. He still hits up the open mic scene and still slams when possible. And if there is an event some where in his birth babylon of BK...be on the look out for a special appearance by this rising writer/poet/visionary/soothsayer/mind reacher...the list contiues to get bigger daily. :-) But have been and will always be a student of life. A brotha with with keen insight visually and mentally to see and point out things most still ignore or can't see. A conscious poetic artist who's one of his main goals is not to write to incite crimes, but to incite minds with the truth in a world and a society full of lies and deception. Hell, call him Mr. Controversial Conscious, because he is not afraid to tell it like it is. So...."Let my words be the inspiring shit clog, stuck in your memory's history that will never be removed. Profound like lyrics to a rap song Huey Newton wrote, that's hard to prove to you. Cause this is the untitled misery of a POET!!!"

-Honest Abe